Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Combos with Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Ancestral Statue Intruder Alarm Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-09-19
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
The spell is cast as Lady Octopus's last ability resolves. You can't wait and cast it later.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Council of Four | 1 | 2 | — |
| Cosmic Spider-Man | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kellan, the Kid | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 1 deck
- Azorius 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Extended Art
- Normal
- $1.21
- Foil
- $1.66
- Normal
- $0.76
- Foil
- $1.29
Promo
Marvel's Spider-Man Promos
- Foil
- $2.44
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.