Cephalid Inkmage (FDN)

Creature — Octopus Wizard

When this creature enters, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Threshold — This creature can't be blocked as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Reliable graveyard enabler for surveil-focused decks. Cephalid Inkmage fills the dual role of filtering your library while building toward threshold—a modest but efficient package at three mana. The evasion payoff is real in self-mill strategies like Dredge and Izzet Murktide decks, where seven cards in the graveyard is a realistic turn-two or turn-three milestone. Solid glue card for Pioneer and Modern shells that already want to stock the yard.

Foundations — Uncommon