Flummoxed Cyclops
Creature — Cyclops
Reach
Whenever two or more creatures your opponents control attack, this creature can't block this combat.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #30318
Flummoxed Cyclops is a four-mana 4/4 that blanket-taxes your opponents out of blocking with multiple creatures at once — an effect that warps combat math in your favor every single turn it sits on the board. The cost is that it does nothing proactive and dies to any removal, so it earns its slot only in decks that repeatedly threaten wide attacks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Flummoxed Cyclops punishes go-wide token strategies and multi-blocker defenses across three opponents simultaneously, which is where the effect is most abusive — one card creates a table-wide rule. In Pauper it competes for space in aggressive red shells, but four mana is a steep ask for a format that wants to end games before that tax matters. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have enough cheap interaction that a vanilla-statted four-drop with no immediate effect is nearly unplayable in competitive lists. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: if your game plan involves repeated swings with multiple attackers, Flummoxed Cyclops is a legitimate include at its price point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Flummoxed Cyclops is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow applications like this rarely climb without a sudden spike in a high-profile deck list, so treat it as a cheap slot-filler rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.