Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor Commander Deck
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor accumulates ingenuity counters by chaining cantrips and draw effects across multiple turns, then uses her tap ability to cast high-cost artifacts for free, rapidly flooding the battlefield with powerful artifact permanents. The deck supports this engine with multiple cost-reduction effects, untap enablers like Dramatic Reversal and Mirran Spy to retap Lady Octopus repeatedly in a single turn, and draw-on-cast triggers from cards like Riddlesmith and the Uthros Research Craft to keep fueling more free casts. The win condition emerges from snowballing artifact advantage — generating flying tokens through Sai, Master Thopterist, building an unblockable threat through Kappa Cannoneer, or assembling Urza, Lord High Artificer to convert the artifact army into a mana engine that plays out the entire deck.
Decklist
- Academy Ruins
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Arcane Signet
- Archway of Innovation
- Brainstorm
- Cerulean Wisps
- Cloud Key
- Consider
- Counterspell
- Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
- Cybermen Squadron
- Darksteel Citadel
- Displacer Kitten
- Dramatic Reversal
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch
- Etherium Sculptor
- Fabricate
- Fierce Guardianship
- Forensic Gadgeteer
- Foundry Inspector
- Frantic Search
- Gitaxian Probe
- Inventors' Fair
- 16× Island
- Kappa Cannoneer
- Krang, the All-Powerful
- Krang, Utrom Warlord
- Lightning Greaves
- Lotus Petal
- Magic Damper
- Master Transmuter
- Minamo, School at Water's Edge
- Mirran Spy
- Mishra's Bauble
- Mox Amber
- Mox Opal
- Mystic Remora
- Opt
- Otawara, Soaring City
- Padeem, Consul of Innovation
- Phyrexian Metamorph
- Ponder
- Preordain
- Refocus
- Reliquary Tower
- Rhystic Study
- Riddlesmith
- Sai, Master Thopterist
- Sculpting Steel
- Seat of the Synod
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
- Sol Ring
- Swan Song
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
- Thought Monitor
- Thought Vessel
- Thoughtcast
- Unctus, Grand Metatect
- Urza, Lord High Artificer
- Urza's Saga
- Uthros Research Craft
- Uthros, Titanic Godcore
- Whir of Invention