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Octavia, Living Thesis

Legendary Creature — Elemental Octopus · {8}{U}{U} · Blue commander

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

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What Octavia, Living Thesis actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.
• Static ability · cost_reductionThis spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
• Keyword · magecraftmagecraft
• Keyword · wardward

What an Octavia, Living Thesis deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 16× A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

Best cards for Octavia, Living Thesis

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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