Giant Octopus
Creature — Octopus
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26116
Giant Octopus is a vanilla 3/3 for four mana with no abilities, no keywords, and no enters-the-battlefield effect — it does exactly as much as its stats and nothing else. In a format where four mana buys you Solemn Simulacrum, Clever Impersonator, or a Mulldrifter with change left over, that's not enough to justify a slot in any serious list.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Giant Octopus is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, the 99-card singleton format where every slot competes against years of power-crept options, Giant Octopus offers a 3/3 body at four mana with no additional text — a baseline that hasn't been competitive since the mid-90s. Pauper is the one format where commons get real scrutiny, but even there the format's efficient threats and removal density mean a vanilla 3/3 for four doesn't make the cut. Across every format it touches, Giant Octopus is a bulk common that functions as a placeholder, not a threat.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Giant Octopus at this time, but as a vanilla bulk common it reliably sits at a few cents or less across most vendors. It's not worth picking up unless you're completing a set for collection purposes.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.