mtg cephalid cards Magic The Gathering - Foundations - Inkmage Few think to look past a familiar face and a friendly smile. Cephalid Sage (Torment)

(Put X +1/+1 counters on the creature that entered or create an X/X white Spirit creature token.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, it endures X, where X is the number of counters on this creature

I just know I'm never going to have a hand or battlefield because I'll be berated with forced discard and sacrifice the entire game

Mind Stone and Sol Ring help to ramp the colorless mana

Unless the opponent has a way to flip it back up, which is highly unlikely outside of morph decks, the creature is essentially permanently a 2/2

But theyre a part of the game

I like it more than all the other mono blue four mana or more clones but none of the ones that are three or less