Abhorrent Oculus
Mana Cost:
Type: Creature — Eye
Oracle Text:
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard.
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Power/Toughness: 5/5
Rarity: mythic
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Price ( USD): $12.26
USD: $12.26 · EUR: €17.55
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Character Background
Abhorrent Oculus reads like an eldritch sentinel that devours your past to buy an obscene aerial threat, and in gameplay it best supports a value-oriented midrange/control strategy that can afford the steep exile-six cost while exploiting recurring, incremental advantage. Casting a 5/5 flyer for {2}{U} is a tempo play, but the real power is the manifest-dread trigger every opponent’s upkeep: it steadily populates the board with face‑down threats and digs your library, so build a deck with a high creature density—preferably many cheap (0–2 mana) creatures or creatures with strong “turned face up”/ETB effects—so manifested cards are both likely and inexpensive to flip. Include reliable top‑deck manipulation (scry, top‑looking or reordering effects) and creatures whose value triggers on being turned face up to maximize consistency. Avoid fragile graveyard-dependent combos unless you have redundancy, since you’re sacrificing graveyard resources to cast the Oculus; treat it as a long-game engine that converts setup into recurring board presence.
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