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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- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC #214)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Artist
- Yongjae Choi
- EDHREC rank
- #8,940
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- 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.
- Buried Alive
- Training Grounds
- Invisible Stalker
- Likeness Looter
- Entomb
- Necrotic Ooze
- Phage the Untouchable
- Vector Asp
- Laboratory Maniac
- Frantic Search
- Unmarked Grave
- The Ancient One
- Omen Hawker
- Whispering Madness
- Looter il-Kor
- Dimir Infiltrator
- Ghostly Pilferer
- Windfall
- Phyrexian Dreadnought
- Cruel Somnophage
- Jace's Archivist
- Oriq Loremage
- Mission Briefing
- Eater of Days
- Doom Whisperer
- Psychic Frog
- Mirror-Mad Phantasm
- Notion Thief
- Heartstone
- Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
- Careful Study
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Price of Fame
- Otherworldly Gaze
- Fact or Fiction
- Mortivore
- Notion Rain
- Hunted Horror
- Cynical Loner
- Consuming Aberration
- Merfolk Looter
- Ripples of Undeath
- Ledger Shredder
- Souls of the Lost
- Sinister Sabotage
- Cephalid Coliseum
- Moonshadow
- Kefnet the Mindful
- Pili-Pala
- Criminal Past
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
- Sunken Hollow
- Dimir Signet
- Drowned Catacomb
- Frantic Search
- Watery Grave
- Talisman of Dominance
- Likeness Looter
- Entomb
- Counterspell
- Underground River
- Windfall
- Necrotic Ooze
- Phage the Untouchable
- Laboratory Maniac
- Choked Estuary
- The Ancient One
- Unmarked Grave
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Dimir Infiltrator
- Vector Asp
- Lightning Greaves
- Polluted Delta
- Tainted Isle
- Whispering Madness
- Morphic Pool
- Omen Hawker
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Dark Ritual
- Ghostly Pilferer
- Consuming Aberration
- Shipwreck Marsh
- Notion Thief
- Looter il-Kor
- Cruel Somnophage
- Undercity Sewers
- Feed the Swarm
- Fact or Fiction
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Phyrexian Dreadnought
- Doom Whisperer
- Bojuka Bog
- Fellwar Stone
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.