Card
Octavia, Living Thesis
Mana cost {8}{U}{U}
Legendary Creature — Elemental Octopus 8/8
This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C21 · #29
- Cheapest printing
- €0.53
- EDHREC salt
- 0.16
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Magecraft, Ward
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
For example, if you control Archmage Emeritus and cast an instant or sorcery spell, Archmage Emeritus's magecraft ability will trigger and you will draw a card. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If a player casts a spell that targets multiple permanents their opponent controls with ward, each of those ward abilities will trigger. If that player doesn't pay for all of them, the spell will be countered.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast