---
name: "Octopus Umbra"
mana_cost: "{3}{U}{U}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Enchantment — Aura"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Umbra armor", "Enchant"]
set: "PZ2"
set_name: "Treasure Chest"
collector_number: "70725"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Howard Lyon"
oracle_id: "6d2ce0ba-f2ff-4c2b-ba85-f6c011ebda6c"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/octopus-umbra-pz2"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Octopus Umbra
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{U}{U}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Enchantment — Aura
- **Keywords:** Umbra armor, Enchant

## Oracle Text
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 8/8 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature with power 8 or less."
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Crab Umbra](/printing/crab-umbra-roe.md) — Enchantment — Aura
2. [Eland Umbra](/printing/eland-umbra-roe.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Boar Umbra](/printing/boar-umbra-uma.md) — Enchantment — Aura
4. [Drake Umbra](/printing/drake-umbra-roe.md) — Enchantment — Aura
5. [Spider Umbra](/printing/spider-umbra-uma.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Mammoth Umbra](/printing/mammoth-umbra-uma.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Treasure Chest (PZ2) #70725
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Howard Lyon
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2018-07-13)* Octopus Umbra overwrites all previous effects that set the creature's base power and toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply to a creature after Octopus Umbra becomes attached to it will overwrite this effect.
- *(2018-07-13)* Any power- or toughness-modifying effects (those that give +N/+N, for example) and counters will apply to the creature's new base power and toughness, even if they started to apply before Octopus Umbra became attached.
- *(2024-06-07)* Some printings of this card refer to the ability "totem armor". This ability's name has been replaced with "umbra armor". This change does not affect the gameplay function of this card.
- *(2024-06-07)* Umbra armor's effect is applied no matter why the enchanted creature would be destroyed: because it's been dealt lethal damage, or because it's being affected by an effect that says to "destroy" it (such as Breathe Your Last). In either case, all damage is removed from the creature and the Aura is destroyed instead.
- *(2024-06-07)* If a creature you control is enchanted with multiple Auras that have umbra armor, and the enchanted creature would be destroyed, one of those Auras is destroyed instead—but only one of them. You choose which one because you control the enchanted creature.
- *(2024-06-07)* If a creature enchanted with an Aura that has umbra armor would be destroyed by multiple state-based actions at the same time (most likely because a creature with deathtouch has dealt damage to that creature greater than or equal to its toughness), umbra armor's effect will replace all of them and save the creature.