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Octavia, Living Thesis

Card Name

Octavia, Living Thesis

Mana Cost

8

Type

Legendary Creature – Elemental Octopus

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

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.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(4/16/2021)
Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell.
(4/16/2021)
For example, if you control Archmage Emeritus and cast an instant or sorcery spell, Archmage Emeritus's magecraft ability will trigger and you will draw a card.
(4/16/2021)
If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger.
(4/16/2021)
If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect.
(4/16/2021)
Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger.
(4/16/2021)
If a player casts a spell that targets multiple permanents their opponent controls with ward, each of those ward abilities will trigger. If that player doesn't pay for all of them, the spell will be countered.