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Lazav, Wearer of Faces

Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Detective · {U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Whenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, 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.

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What Lazav, Wearer of Faces actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate.
• Triggered ability · sacrificeWhenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.

What a Lazav, Wearer of Faces deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• Clue sacrifice outlets and payoffs (each Clue sacrificed lets it become a creature it exiled)
• evasion and protection for the commander

The Lazav, Wearer of Faces deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Lazav, Wearer of Faces

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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