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Lazav, Wearer of Faces

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

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What a Lazav, Wearer of Faces deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

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.

Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander

  1. Ugin's Labyrinth0 mana
  2. Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
  3. Endless Sands0 mana
  4. Mimic Vat3 mana
  5. Bag of Holding1 mana
  6. Currency Converter1 mana
  7. Dawnhand Dissident1 mana
  8. Dino DNA1 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Dimir Aqueduct0 mana
  6. Dismal Backwater0 mana
  7. Lotus Field0 mana
  8. Mortuary Mire0 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Floodhound1 mana
  2. Forensic Gadgeteer3 mana
  3. Erdwal Illuminator2 mana
  4. Piper Wright, Publick Reporter2 mana
  5. Mistway Spy1 mana
  6. April O'Neil, Live on the Scene2 mana
  7. Homicide Investigator2 mana
  8. Lazav, Wearer of Faces2 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  4. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  5. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  6. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  7. Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia3 mana
  8. Liliana, the Last Hope3 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Brain Freeze2 mana
  5. Mindcrank2 mana
  6. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  7. Codex Shredder1 mana
  8. Hedron Crab1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Suspend1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Lively Dirge2 mana
  6. Imperial Seal1 mana
  7. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  8. Diabolic Intent2 mana

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