Doctor Octopus, Master Planner
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain
Other Villains you control get +2/+2.
Your maximum hand size is eight.
At the beginning of your end step, if you have fewer than eight cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.
"Soon all will cower before the superior intellect of Doctor Octopus!"
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- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man Promos (PSPM #128s)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 7
- Released
- 2025-09-26
- Artist
- Xabi Gaztelua
- EDHREC rank
- #7,593
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 13
All 13 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Tombstone, Career Criminal
- Prowler, Clawed Thief
- Mysterio, Master of Illusion
- Doc Ock, Sinister Scientist
- Flying Octobot
- Vulture, Scheming Scavenger
- Chameleon, Master of Disguise
- Doc Ock's Henchmen
- Scorpion, Seething Striker
- Morbius the Living Vampire
- Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
- Villainous Wrath
- Black Cat, Cunning Thief
- Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
- The Spot's Portal
- Behold the Sinister Six!
- Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord
- Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
- Mob Lookout
- Doc Ock's Tentacles
- Common Crook
- Swarm, Being of Bees
- Venom's Hunger
- Sinister Hideout
- Venom, Evil Unleashed
- Merciless Enforcers
- Doc Ock, Evil Inventor
- Beetle, Legacy Criminal
- Unstable Experiment
- Mechanical Mobster
- Mysterio's Phantasm
- Risky Research
- Venom, Eddie Brock
- Villainous Hideout
- Kang, Temporal Tyrant
- Prison Break
- Spider-Man No More
- Inner Demons Gangsters
- Grasping Tentacles
- Leader, Super-Genius
- Scorpion's Sting
- Whoosh!
- Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary
- Psychosis Crawler
- The Masters of Evil
- Amazing Acrobatics
- Grendel, Spawn of Knull
- Venomized Cat
- Vibrant Cityscape
- Alchemax Slayer-Bots
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Tombstone, Career Criminal
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Prowler, Clawed Thief
- Mysterio, Master of Illusion
- Chameleon, Master of Disguise
- Doc Ock, Sinister Scientist
- Flying Octobot
- Vulture, Scheming Scavenger
- Doc Ock's Henchmen
- Scorpion, Seething Striker
- Morbius the Living Vampire
- Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
- Villainous Wrath
- Black Cat, Cunning Thief
- Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
- Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord
- Behold the Sinister Six!
- The Spot's Portal
- Sunken Hollow
- Mob Lookout
- Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
- Doc Ock's Tentacles
- Common Crook
- Swarm, Being of Bees
- Sinister Hideout
- Dimir Signet
- Counterspell
- Drowned Catacomb
- Venom's Hunger
- Talisman of Dominance
- Venom, Evil Unleashed
- Merciless Enforcers
- Doc Ock, Evil Inventor
- Unstable Experiment
- Beetle, Legacy Criminal
- Mechanical Mobster
- Villainous Hideout
- Mysterio's Phantasm
- Risky Research
- Venom, Eddie Brock
- Kang, Temporal Tyrant
- Prison Break
- Spider-Man No More
- Watery Grave
- Inner Demons Gangsters
- Leader, Super-Genius
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-09-19
If multiple effects modify your hand size, apply them in timestamp order. For example, if you put Spellbook (an artifact that says you have no maximum hand size) onto the battlefield and then put Doctor Octopus, Master Planner onto the battlefield, your maximum hand size will be eight. However, if those permanents entered in the opposite order, you would have no maximum hand size.
- 2025-09-19
The number of cards you ultimately draw may be affected by replacement effects. For example, if you have six cards in hand as Doctor Octopus's last ability resolves, and you also control Thought Reflection (an enchantment that says "If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead"), you'll end up drawing four cards.
- 2025-09-19
Your maximum hand size is checked only during the cleanup step of your turn. At any other time, you may have any number of cards in hand.