Octopus

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Octopus
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Introduced	Portal (updated) Starter 1999 (printed)
Last used	Avatar: The Last Airbender
Beeble Scale	4
Scryfall Statistics
cards
token creation cards
artworks

Octopus is a creature type used on cards that depict tentacled sea creatures. With the release Modern Horizons 3, the humanoid Cephalids were merged to be part of the Octopus type.

Description

The octopus is a venomous cephalopod that prefers a solitary nature in the sea. Their most notable features are eight tentacular arms that symmetrically radiate around a hard beak. Their primary defense mechanism is to flee while ejecting an ink cloud into the water. Many octopuses are known to employ natural camouflage to help elude intruders. They are not to be confused with the closely related nautili, squids, or kraken. Octopuses are intelligent creatures but lack the sapience of their humanoid versions, the cephalids.

The first creature to bear the type was Giant Octopus from Portal and Starter 1999. It was followed by Lorthos, the Tidemaker from Zendikar, Sealock Monster and Godhunter Octopus from the Theros block, and Elder Deep-Fiend from Eldritch Moon. Since then, other octopuses have seen print. Not many mechanical or flavorful reasons separate octopuses from squids or kraken, with the average octopus being mid-sized in cost and body, larger than a squid, and smaller than a kraken.

Notable Octopuses

Arcavios

• Octavia

Muraganda

• Caelorna

Ravnica

• Marvo

Zendikar

• Lorthos

The Edge

• Prototype X-8

Notable Cephalids

Capenna

• Kamiz
• Queza

Dominaria

• Emperor Aboshan
• Empress Llawan

Tokens

Acorn cards that generate tokens are marked with .

Token name	Color	Type line	P/T	Text box	Source	Printings
Octopus		Creature — Octopus	8/8		Crush of Tentacles Fisher's Talent Kiora, Master of the Depths Octomancer
Contortionist		Creature — Octopus Performer	4/4	At the beginning of your upkeep, you may fold this token in half. (It becomes 2/2, then 1/1, ½/½, and so on.)	Octo Opus
Scion of the Deep		Legendary Creature — Octopus	8/8		Kiora, the Rising Tide

Gallery

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  Lorthos, the Tidemaker. Art by Kekai Kotaki.