
Lazav, the Multifarious
Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter
When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.
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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.
- Buried Alive
- Training Grounds
- Invisible Stalker
- Likeness Looter
- Entomb
- Necrotic Ooze
- Phage the Untouchable
- Vector Asp
- Frantic Search
- Laboratory Maniac
- Unmarked Grave
- The Ancient One
- Omen Hawker
- Whispering Madness
- Looter il-Kor
- Dimir Infiltrator
- Ghostly Pilferer
- Windfall
- Phyrexian Dreadnought
- Cruel Somnophage
- Oriq Loremage
- Jace's Archivist
- Mission Briefing
- Eater of Days
- Doom Whisperer
- Mirror-Mad Phantasm
- Notion Thief
- Psychic Frog
- Heartstone
- Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Mortivore
- Price of Fame
- Fact or Fiction
- Otherworldly Gaze
- Careful Study
- Notion Rain
- Hunted Horror
- Merfolk Looter
- Ripples of Undeath
- Cynical Loner
- Souls of the Lost
- Consuming Aberration
- Sinister Sabotage
- Ledger Shredder
- Moonshadow
- Kefnet the Mindful
- Cephalid Coliseum
- Criminal Past
- Leveler
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Swamp
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Buried Alive
- Training Grounds
- Invisible Stalker
- Dimir Signet
- Sunken Hollow
- Drowned Catacomb
- Frantic Search
- Watery Grave
- Talisman of Dominance
- Likeness Looter
- Entomb
- Counterspell
- Underground River
- Necrotic Ooze
- Windfall
- Phage the Untouchable
- Laboratory Maniac
- The Ancient One
- Unmarked Grave
- Choked Estuary
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Vector Asp
- Dimir Infiltrator
- Lightning Greaves
- Polluted Delta
- Tainted Isle
- Whispering Madness
- Morphic Pool
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Notion Thief
- Omen Hawker
- Dark Ritual
- Consuming Aberration
- Looter il-Kor
- Ghostly Pilferer
- Cruel Somnophage
- Shipwreck Marsh
- Undercity Sewers
- Feed the Swarm
- Fact or Fiction
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Phyrexian Dreadnought
- Doom Whisperer
- Fellwar Stone
- Mission Briefing
Format legality
Rulings
- 2018-10-05
Any effects that applied to Lazav before it becomes a copy of another card will continue to apply once it's become a copy. The same is true of any counters that are on Lazav.
- 2018-10-05
Because Lazav isn't entering the battlefield when it becomes a copy of a card, any "When this enters the battlefield" or "This enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied card won't apply.
- 2018-10-05
If a card in your graveyard has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- 2018-10-05
If the copied card has an ability that can be activated only once each turn, copying that card a second time will allow you to activate the new instance of that ability.
- 2018-10-05
Lazav copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics it specifically modifies. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.
- 2024-01-12
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.