Cephalid Scout
Odyssey 74 • common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Collector number
- 74
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Alan Pollack
- Market price
- $0.14
What it does
Flying
2 generic mana blue mana, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.
The more they survey the dreadful dry expanses, the more the cephalids thirst to tame them.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Cephalid Scout was released in 2001 as part of the Odyssey expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set focused on the graveyard as a resource, introducing mechanics that encouraged players to move cards from their libraries to their graveyards. The Cephalids, an original race of aquatic, octopus-like beings created for this block, represented the blue-aligned focus on knowledge and manipulation of the game's mechanics.
The card was illustrated by Greg Staples, who captured the creature's eerie, amphibious nature with a focus on its unsettling appearance and the coastal environment of Otaria. As a common card, it served as a utility piece in limited play formats, designed to help players curate their hands by discarding cards to dig deeper into their libraries. It remains a notable example of the early 2000s era of card design, characterized by atmospheric world-building and specific, role-oriented creature types.
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