Dodecapod
Artifact Creature — Golem
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, put it onto the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it instead of putting it into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- special
- Set
- Time Spiral Timeshifted
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #27571
Dodecapod enters as a 3/3 for four mana, but discard a card and it arrives as a 5/5 instead — the upside is real and the floor is mediocre. It's a narrow sideboard tool against discard-heavy strategies, not a maindeck staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dodecapod is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, it occupies a very specific niche: decks that expect heavy discard pressure, whether from Nekusar, the Mindrazer wheels, Tinybones, Trinket Thief strategies, or discard-tribal builds — and even there, most pilots prefer proactive protection or recursion over a reactive body. In Legacy and Vintage, the card simply doesn't meet the power threshold to see serious play. Treat Dodecapod as a meta-call inclusion, not a default.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Dodecapod is deep bulk — pick it up for pennies if your Commander meta runs heavy discard. Don't expect the price to move; demand is too narrow to push it out of the bulk bin.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.