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Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Legendary Creature — Octopus Rogue1 generic manaWhite manaBlue manaBlack mana

Most attack-trigger commanders reward going wide or going tall; this one demands a specific asymmetry. The trigger fires on a chosen attacker, threads it through the defense unblockable, filters your hand, and grows that creature if you pitched something worth pitching. That much is a tidy Esper value package. The wrinkle is the last clause: the double strike goes to a different attacker, one with lesser power, which structurally forces the unblockable connive-target and the doubled finisher to be two separate bodies. You cannot funnel the whole payoff into one creature, and the power comparison is the axle it turns on: the unblockable, conniving creature has to be the larger one, so the doubling lands on a smaller threat that stays fully blockable. That is the honest tension in the design. The unblockable body is not clearing a lane for its partner; the defender's blockers are all still free to gang up on the double striker. What Kamiz sells is guaranteed damage on the connive-target plus a gamble on the doubler getting through, not two clean hits. Building around it means staggering your attackers' sizes rather than maximizing any single body: a beefy evasive lead that keeps stacking counters through connive, backed by lighter strikers that turn dangerous the moment a blocker is spent or absent. It is a two-creature combat puzzle dressed as a single trigger, with the card filtering keeping the hand fluid across a long game.

Kamiz, Obscura Oculus (ncc)
NCC · #3mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.89
Foil: $0.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you attack, target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn. It connives. Then choose another attacking creature with lesser power. That creature gains double strike until end of turn. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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