Card
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Mana cost {U}
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain 0/2
Whenever you draw your first or second card each turn, put an ingenuity counter on Lady Octopus. {T}: You may cast an artifact spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to the number of ingenuity counters on Lady Octopus without paying its mana cost.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · SPM · #35
- Cheapest printing
- €0.84
- EDHREC salt
- 0.63
- Color identity
- Blue
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
1 known combo.
- Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor + Ancestral Statue + Intruder Alarm
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
You don't have to cast a spell as that ability resolves. If you choose not to for some reason, don't let anyone judge your genius plans. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
The spell is cast as Lady Octopus's last ability resolves. You can't wait and cast it later.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast