lady Octopus, inspired inventor by idkchris1

Format: Commander

Commander: Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor leads a mono-blue artifact deck that pairs fast mana acceleration and card draw engines with game-ending combo lines and colossal artifact threats. The primary strategy focuses on deploying early mana rocks like Sol Ring and Arcane Signet, establishing card velocity with Rhystic Study or Teferi's Ageless Insight, and charging Lady Octopus to cheat high-cost artifacts onto the battlefield. The deck wins on Turn 4 or 5 by assembling Basalt Monolith and Rings of Brighthearth, which generates infinite colorless mana to feed directly into Walking Ballista or Urza, Lord High Artificer to eliminate the entire table in a single turn. If the combo is delayed, the deck transitions smoothly into a stompy plan, dropping massive threats such as Darksteel Colossus, Krang, Utrom Warlord, and Threefold Thunderhulk. An elite suite of free and efficient counterspells protects key assembly windows, ensuring robust resilience against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bladegriff Prototype
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chase Inspiration
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Echo, Perceptive Prodigy
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Golem Artisan
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 I Am Iron Man
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
  • 1 Magewright's Stone
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portal Mage
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Steady Progress
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Twiddle
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Windfall