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Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain
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.
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“Draw cards to unlock free artifact casting—cheat out massive threats without paying.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Artifact payoffs
Card Draw, Artifacts, Ramp
Strategy
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor is a card-draw-fueled artifact engine that lets you cast artifacts for free once you've drawn enough cards. Your gameplan is straightforward: draw cards consistently each turn to stack ingenuity counters, then tap her to cast powerful artifacts without paying their mana costs. This turns card advantage directly into mana advantage, letting you cast expensive artifact payoffs way ahead of schedule.
The deck wants to maximize draw triggers—both dedicated draw spells and repeatable effects like Coastal Piracy, Teferi's Agendum, or creatures with draw on etb. You're building toward a critical mass of ingenuity counters (usually 4–6) so you can cast game-ending artifacts like Blightsteel Colossus, Wurmcoil Engine, or Torment of Hailfire for free. The win typically comes from cheating out a massive artifact threat or grinding opponents down through repeated artifact value.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora; use cheaper draw like Coastal Piracy, Teferi's Agendum, or even Bident of Thassa to trigger draw.
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