X.=Lazav, Dimir Mastermind; What's yours is mine (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

X.=Lazav, Dimir Mastermind; What's yours is mine

Commander / EDH Casual Mill Multiplayer UB (Dimir)

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1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

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Lazav, What's yours is mine, is built to focus heavily on Lazav. Not only do we want to trigger our commander's ability as much as possible, but we also want to take advantage of all the cards sitting in the graveyard.

To aid in this goal, we have lots of mill, spot removal and counterspells to ensure things get to where we want them to be. There's not a lot of graveyard removal as we want things to be sitting in there, but are also okay with eldrazi hitting the graveyard as we can steal them before they're shuffled away.

This deck is pretty simplistic to pilot and fun to hand out to players who are bored of GR overrun or token spawn non-interaction. There's not a lot of crazy combos or weird interactions, but it doesn't need to be for a fun Lazav copy deck.

We want our land base in this to be pretty evenly split due to Lazav's UUBB cost and wanting to cast and trigger him ASAP

Notable Cards & Combos

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver lets us steal problems before they even show up. Ashiok fits perfectly into the theme and feel of this deck
Consuming Aberration is a huge threat; it generally doesn't last a round on the field but that means it'll eat up a kill spell (and let us get it back with things like Fated Return). If it does last the turn however, it's an amazing mill effect.
Extract from Darkness is thematic and profitable. Mill for Lazav, then steal any creature in a graveyard (including ours)
Extractor Demon is great to hang around with an alright body too. Can be unearthed before a board wipe for more advantage (as both will trigger).
Glaring Spotlight lets us get rid of pesky hexproof creatures to hit with our copy spells or our kill spells. Can be used in a pinch to save us too.
In Garruk's Wake board wipes everyone else's field and let us trigger Lazav's ability :D.
Knowledge Exploitation can fit the bill of whatever we need it to be. Know the white player has lots of board wipes - go fish it up; want to steal that Rise of the Dark Realms because THIEVERY, Grab it; REALLY have to deal with an indestructible creature? Go fetch a path or swords; Or just steal that time stretch you know the combo player has
Life's Finale lets us board wipe AND fill the graveyard with problems. Two'fer.
Mercurial Pretender is a great blocker and lets us abuse flicker abilities we can steal. If we can get Mirror Gallery on the field this becomes much more fun
Mirror Gallery was always going to go in this deck (especially pre-legendary rules change). What we really want is loads of copies of Lazav. This might get removed and rebuilt more heavily focussed on Mirror Gallery, but at the moment it stays in here so when it happens, it feels good.
Praetor's Grasp allows us to get whatever we need for our situation; in a same vein as Knowledge Exploitation, but also can grab enemy's lands or cards that hose our decks (Rest in Peace effects for example)
Profane Memento is a neat life gain effect in such a mill heavy deck. It can keep us afloat against trickle decks.
Psychic Intrusion is much better after I re-evaluated it. I realised it didn't end at EOT, and suddenly the ability became a lot better
Psychic Spiral - mill AND recovery, all in one.
Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank is an infinite combo by itself; but only use it if we are in dire straights; too boring to keep doing

Testing Out

Phthisis is expensive, but the life loss can be handy
Dimir Guildmage can draw a card or force discard. Don't know how I feel about the sorcery speed but want to see
Oblivion Stone is a board wipe that will let us keep Lazav. But also slow and expensive.
Thassa, God of the Sea the scry and unblockable is great, but it doesn't really fit the deck thematically
Mercurial Pretender I like the IDEA of the deck, but yet to see it work out

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Sept. 1, 2014

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Sol Ring - Don't know how important that extra 2 mana is. Will think about this.
Ultimate Price is okay but struggles against multicolour commanders, etc.
Lim-Dul the Necromancer is so expensive, never had it work out well, he's been relegated to his own deck to see how it plays out
Nezumi Graverobber ^Flip - I want to keep graveyards kind of full and this very rarely goes off.
Cackling Counterpart - eeh~
Blatant Thievery Struggling to find a place for Memnarch, will prefer that.
Fated Infatuation is okay but I feel there's better out there.
Pilfered Plans is somewhat mediocre. There's better out there I think
Dismiss
Shadowborn Demon
Lux Cannon is just too slow
Exquisite Blood is such a big threat without being easy to abuse in this deck. Would prefer Profane Momento in here.
Undercity Informer is okay during board wipes but will see how I feel
Szadek, Lord of Secrets is just too expensive.
Balustrade Spy is decent but we have better mill
1 Swamp 1 Island

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Profane Memento - I feel like this will generate more lifegain with less hate than Exquisite Blood
Psychic Intrusion I never realised the effect DIDN'T stop at end of turn. Want to see how this plays out
Extract from Darkness mill AND steal. This fits in the deck
Praetor's Grasp is getting trailed more in decks; can steal land etc if really struggling. Very versatile.
Mercurial Pretender feel this is better than the instant cost spells. Like the flicker ability on him too. Want to see how this plays out
Memnarch can steal already artifacts AND everything else :D.
Thassa, God of the Sea - the scry is great on Thassa and the unblockable makes things easier.
Harvester of Souls is a great passive draw engine; testing it out in this deck
Spelljack is the counterspell this deck needs!
Tragic Slip is a great removal; steal indestructible things with Lazav
In Garruk's Wake is an expensive but decent board wipe. Will see how this plays out
Psychic Spiral mill AND recursion!? Don't mind if I do.
Scythe Specter want to see how this pans out; like the idea of it.
Phenax, God of Deception can turn our creatures into mill if we're struggling to get damage through
Extractor Demon want to see how this pans out
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Revision 11 See all

(9 years ago)

+1	Arcane Lighthouse	maybe
+1	Domineering Will	maybe
+1	Infernal Offering	maybe

Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 2 Mythic Rares 35 - 19 Rares 19 - 8 Uncommons 17 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.51
Tokens	Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Retired EDH
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