Giant Octopus - A Magic the Gathering Card Review

by ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist

Giant Octopus  has some of the best flavor text in Magic. The 8th and 9th edition versions have an excerpt from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Its Seventh Edition version, though, has a pretty awesome line: “The only thing that flows faster than water is fear.” Its original printing was actually way back in Portal. Back then, its flavor text read: “At the sight of the thing the calamari vendor’s eyes went wide, but from fear or avarice none could tell.”

As a creature card, Giant Octopus is a 3/3 for 3 and a Blue. Back in its day, it was most certainly a Limited playable, and anyone who was introduced to Magic with Portal, Starter 1999 or Starter 2000 certainly remembers it. As vanilla creatures go, it’s not bad. At least they have some cool flavor text.

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