Doc Ock, Evil Inventor
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target noncreature artifact you control becomes an 8/8 Robot Villain artifact creature in addition to its other types.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man Eternal
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #17926
Doc Ock, Evil Inventor enters with four Tentacle artifact tokens and a repeatable loot-and-reanimate engine stapled to attacking — that's a lot of cardboard for six mana. The cost is exactly that six mana, which keeps Doc Ock out of competitive formats but squarely in the sweet spot for artifact and graveyard Commander builds.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Doc Ock, Evil Inventor is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage simply have no interest in a six-mana creature whose payoff requires combat steps. Commander is the natural home — the token generation and graveyard recursion scale well over long games, and artifact-synergy commanders can exploit the Tentacle tokens immediately. Oathbreaker is plausible if the signature spell supports the graveyard plan, but the six-mana investment is harder to justify in a 20-life format.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Doc Ock, Evil Inventor is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap order filler. Bulk rares from licensed crossover sets tend to stay flat or drift lower as supply remains plentiful, so there's no urgency either way.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.