Cephalid Scout
Creature — Octopus Wizard Scout
Flying
, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25807
Cephalid Scout trades a land from your hand for a card draw trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control — a repeatable but mana-hungry engine that asks more than it gives in most shells. Outside of dedicated landfall or high-creature-density synergy decks, the activation cost makes it a bulk rare that stays bulk.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cephalid Scout is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the honest answer is that it sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander, creature-token generators or landfall payoffs might find a niche use for it, but two mana per activation competes badly against free or cheaper draw engines. In Pauper, where resources are tight and every activation matters, the cost-to-output ratio is punishing enough that it rarely makes lists. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient card advantage, and Cephalid Scout simply doesn't clear that bar.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Cephalid Scout is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a dollar box and rarely leaves it. There is no meaningful demand pressure to push this higher, so treat it as a freely swappable inclusion if a specific synergy calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.