Octavia by groundhog007

Format: Commander

Commander: Octavia, Living Thesis

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Mono-Blue Spellslinger Tempo deck commanded by Octavia, Living Thesis. The core strategy revolves around rapidly stocking the graveyard with 8 or more instant and sorcery spells through 1-mana cantrips, surveil, and self-mill effects. Once the graveyard threshold is met, Octavia casts for just two blue mana. Using Octavia's Magecraft ability, every cheap instant or sorcery turns small, unblockable creatures into massive 8/8 threats. Backed by Ward {8}, hexproof attackers, and a suite of efficient counterspells and bounce spells, the deck systematically eliminates opponents through unblockable combat damage while utilizing high-synergy tempo payoffs like Cephalid Constable and Inkmoth Nexus.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Cephalid Constable
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader
  • 1 Deekah, Fractal Theorist
  • 1 Defy Gravity
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faerie Conclave
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gigadrowse
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hraesvelgr of the First Brood
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Mental Note
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murktide Regent
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Namor the Sub-Mariner
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octavia, Living Thesis
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Skyline Cascade
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Snap
  • 6 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Windrider Wizard