Cephalid Constable

Creature — Octopus Wizard

Whenever Cephalid Constable deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owners' hands.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

SufferFromEDHD on Wheel and Deal

1 month ago

Cephalid Constable

SufferFromEDHD on The Bluebonic plague

2 months ago

Cephalid Constable was made for this commander.

CoryDean on Muldrotha Mutate

6 months ago

Added: Archipelagore, Bloom Tender, Cephalid Constable, Delighted Halfling, Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius, Heroic Intervention, Cabal Coffers

Removed: Blight Mamba, Fertilid, Polukranos, Unchained, Arcane Signet, Lightning Greaves, Burgeoning, Vesuvan Duplimancy

Crow_Umbra on Felix Five-Boots - Reach for the Sky (v0.5)

8 months ago

Glad to see your Five-Boots list up like you mentioned! I'll definitely be keeping tabs on this as you make your changes and upgrades.

I checked out your Maybe List, and I'm glad to see that you have Spawnwrithe and Mist-Syndicate Naga; they were both some of my favorite "host bodies" for when I used to play Brokkos, Apex of Forever Mutate Voltron.

These are some cards I also used to run in Brokkos as host bodies, but I think they could do some work in Five-Boots, especially if you add in some of the Swords of X & Y, but check out Cephalid Constable and Needle Specter. Constable & Specter are much more immediately mean as hosts for Brokkos, but they could still be fairly disruptive with Five-Boots.

Crow_Umbra on Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

8 months ago

As an additional example, Cold-Eyed Selkie is worded in a way so that you draw cards for the total amount of combat damage it deals.

Let's say Cold-Eyed Selkie is enchanted with a Rancor, and it connects for combat damage. If it connects with its full 3 damage, you will draw 3 cards.

Although their wordings have some similarities, their are some slight differences between "one or more" (Professional Face-Breaker, Grim Hireling, and Olivia, Opulent Outlaw), and "Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, X happens that many times" (Cephalid Constable, Cold-Eyed Selkie, and Needle Specter)

sergiodelrio on Pattern Recognition #308 - Bounce

11 months ago

It can be really "fun" against Tron tho... I used to have a modern bounce deck that also ran Cephalid Constable and pretty much all the bounce spells that also hit lands.

"What if you never hit your third land drop?" was the name of the game, and I have some very fond memories of ragequits.

However, the deck was inconsistent (mostly besause there are only 8 land bounce spells in modern and because of everything wallisface said) and had many bad matchups.

SufferFromEDHD on

1 year ago

Cephalid Constable great target for the unblockable.

Spine of Ish Sah great clue. Add to the main board.

Siosilvar on Colorshift Land Control

1 year ago

Color denial on its own isn't a win condition, it's just disruption, and you need something else going on to make the single-land deniers playable. Blood Moon shuts off multiple lands and Spreading Seas replaces itself, so that's why those are the ones that get play.

But that said... Contaminated Ground and Pooling Venom can be win conditions, if you use them as repeatable shocks in combination with Hidden Strings, Fatestitcher, or Icy Manipulator to force your opponents to use them even when they don't want to. There's a brew from about 5 years ago I have bookmarked that does that: For Assholes Only

Another idea I've had is a mostly-blue deck that denies the first few lands until resolving an Isochron Scepter with Boomerang imprinted to keep them stuck at 2 Islands forever. The final win condition is just Cephalid Constable and Venser, Shaper Savant beatdown.