DimirLegendary Creature — Shapeshifter DetectiveLazav, Wearer of Faces
Mana value2Rank#13,428
The Commander
Whenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Attack with Lazav to exile creatures from graveyards and generate Clue tokens, then sacrifice those Clues to transform Lazav into copies of the best creatures you've banked. You grind value through repeated investigation while cherry-picking powerful attackers off opponents' graveyards, turning Lazav into whatever threat the board demands. The deck wins by accumulating card advantage and converting Clues into evasive, high-impact bodies.
Strengths
- Cheap two-mana commander that immediately impacts the board and snowballs card advantage via Clues
- Flexible threat that can become any exiled creature, dodging targeted removal by re-copying after each sacrifice
- Graveyard hate built in—exiling opponents' creatures disrupts reanimator and recursion decks
- Strong synergy with sacrifice payoffs, artifact tokens, and self-mill/dredge to fuel options
Weaknesses
- Lazav must connect in combat to generate value, so it relies on evasion and board presence
- Copy ability is fleeting (only until end of turn), giving no permanent board state
- Mana-hungry: paying per Clue to draw or copy stretches resources
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate from opponents that empties the fuel for its copies
- Lacks a built-in fast clock—can be slow against dedicated combo decks
Key Cards
Upgrade Path
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
Win conditions appear once Wyrm has covered this commander.
Archetypes
- Value Midrange — Repeated Clue generation and graveyard exile fuel relentless card advantage and adaptive threats.
- Clue/Artifact Tokens — Lazav investigates on attack, synergizing with Clue and artifact-token payoffs.
- Sacrifice/Aristocrats — Sacrificing Clues triggers value engines and aristocrat payoffs while transforming Lazav.
- Self-Mill/Graveyard — Filling graveyards gives Lazav more powerful creatures to exile and copy.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BU), by popularity.
