Hero card

Cephalid Inkmage

Creature – Octopus Wizard

Value on arrivalDoes its thing as it enters: worth it from the first moment

Needs: Graveyard

Gives: Graveyard, ETB

Not in winning lists yet: read from the card text and the graph

Build a deck with Cephalid Inkmage as the hero

Makes it work

Mindwhisker · Theorix Metamage · Most Decrepit Old Bird · Dreadwing Scavenger · Mind Drill Assailant · The Everflowing Well · Billowing Shriekmass · Shoreline Looter

Benefits from it

Summon: Esper Ramuh · Tidecaller Mentor · Frilled Cave-Wurm · Nightwhorl Hermit · Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake · Council of Echoes · Didact Echo · Crypt Feaster

Use instead if you don't have it

Matterbending Mage · Finch Formation · Crimestopper Sprite · Iguana Parrot · Mocking Sprite · Waterspout Warden

Cards in the meta that answer it

Burst Lightning (Izzet Elemental) · Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Jeskai Revelation (4-Color Control)