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Collector Ouphe

Creature — Ouphe

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$11.41
EDHREC rank
#2296
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Collector Ouphe card art
Collector Ouphe shuts off every activated ability on every artifact on the board — mana rocks, equipment, combo pieces, all of it — for two mana on a 2/2 body that Yisan, the Wanderer Bard can tutor at verse counter two. Paired with Mycosynth Lattice, it becomes a total lock: opponents can't activate anything, period.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

53.7% of decks · synergy 0.49

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard tutors Collector Ouphe directly off a two-verse activation, dropping it into play at instant speed during an opponent's upkeep to shut down their mana rocks before they untap.

02
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

42.7% of decks · synergy 0.40

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed is a creature-and-permanents prison deck that wants artifact hate on a body — Collector Ouphe lines up perfectly, punishing spell-heavy opponents while the Ouphe keeps their rocks cold.

03
Ellivere of the Wild Court

Ellivere of the Wild Court

29.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Ellivere of the Wild Court runs very few artifacts of its own, so Collector Ouphe is nearly free to include — it applies asymmetric pressure against opponents while the Aura-based game plan stays completely unaffected.

05
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

17.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster already taxes and disrupts opponents through land and spell interaction — Collector Ouphe layers on artifact disruption, tightening the prison and closing off the mana acceleration opponents need to fight through Thalia's ability.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Collector Ouphe does the most damage: artifact mana is everywhere, and a two-mana body that shuts all of it off is a tempo swing that can cripple multiple players simultaneously. In Legacy, it sees fringe sideboard play as a creature-based answer to artifact-heavy combo decks, useful specifically because it dodges Pyroblast. Modern has enough artifact synergy decks — affinity variants, Urza shells — that Collector Ouphe earns occasional sideboard slots, though the format is faster and the window to profit from it narrower. Vintage is technically legal but almost irrelevant; the Ouphe locks itself out of the powered environment in ways that rarely line up favorably. Pioneer and Pauper are off the table.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Null Rod does essentially the same job for around $8 and has been the go-to artifact-hate permanent for years, but it's not a creature — you lose the ability to tutor it with creature-fetching effects or sacrifice it to creature-specific payoffs. Stony Silence is the other close comparison at roughly $3–4, hits harder in some matchups, but is white-only and again not a body, so it won't replace Collector Ouphe in decks that need a creature specifically.

Price Context

Current price

$11.41 mid tier

At $11.41, Collector Ouphe sits in the mid tier — reasonable for a staple hate piece that appears in thousands of green Commander decks. It's seen multiple printings which have kept the price accessible, and given how broadly applicable artifact hate is, the floor here is unlikely to drop significantly.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.