Cephalid Snitch
Creature — Octopus Wizard
Sacrifice this creature: Target creature loses protection from black until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #28262
Cephalid Snitch turns any creature with protection from a color into a liability — sacrifice it to make target creature lose protection from all colors until end of turn, opening it up to removal or damage that would otherwise bounce off. The cost is a creature and a tap, which means you're spending two resources to clear one blocker; run it only if your deck has a specific, recurring problem with protection creatures.
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 |
In Commander, Cephalid Snitch occupies a narrow niche — protection from colors is common enough on commanders and utility creatures that the effect occasionally matters, but a one-shot sacrifice effect rarely justifies a deck slot when instant-speed exile or -X/-X effects do the same job without costing a body. In Pauper, the format's creature suite leans heavily on common-level keywords, and protection from colors does show up on relevant threats, so Cephalid Snitch is at its most plausible there as a sideboard answer. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to ignore it entirely — better answers exist at every point on the curve.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Cephalid Snitch is bulk in every sense — easy to acquire, negligible financial risk. That price reflects demand accurately; this is a narrow utility card with a small audience, and it's unlikely to move without a sudden spike in protection-heavy metagames.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.