Acquisition Octopus
Artifact Creature — Equipment Octopus
Whenever this creature or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
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(: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #10281
Acquisition Octopus staples a Clue token to any equipped creature every combat, turning the attack step into an engine that replaces cards while applying pressure. The cost — three mana to cast, two to equip — is real, but in any deck that already wants to swing with a single threat repeatedly, the card advantage compounds fast enough to justify it. Tetsuo, Imperial Champion decks in particular treat this as a near-staple because it feeds the value loop the commander demands.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion wants to equip a single creature and attack every turn, which means Acquisition Octopus generates a free Clue on each of those attacks — effectively turning Tetsuo's combat-focused game plan into a draw engine at no additional resource investment.
Runo Stromkirk
Runo Stromkirk cares about Horrors and sea creatures, and Acquisition Octopus is an Octopus that turns any equipped attacker into a clue-generating machine — it fits the tribal shell while adding card draw that blue-black creature decks are always happy to slot in.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Acquisition Octopus earns its slot in any equipment-heavy or attack-trigger deck — the Clue-per-combat rate is slow by combo standards but genuinely sustainable over a long game. Outside Commander, it's legal in Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, but equipment that costs two to cast and two to equip competes against far faster and more threatening options in those formats, where a single Clue per attack is not a meaningful rate. Acquisition Octopus is a Commander card through and through — it rewards the repeated, incremental value that multiplayer games reward and that 60-card formats punish.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Acquisition Octopus is deep bulk — you're paying pennies for genuine card advantage in the right shell. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price floor don't tend to move unless they suddenly spike in a tournament context, and this card has no realistic path to that, so buy however many you need without a second thought.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
- Runo Stromkirk
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.