layered lazav

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Reanimator UB (Dimir)

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Instant (33)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cling to Dust
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gush
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Predict
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Thought Scour *f-pre*
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (8)

• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Walking Ballista

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Mnemonic Betrayal
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

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Why Lazav?

Lazav, the Multifarious is a powerful value engine and combo enabler, and let's us use unconventional piles for our powerful haymaker spells like Doomsday. He also lets us reuse creatures and utilize cards in unique ways to generate advantage in grindy games.

Win Conditions:

Buried Alive

Buried Alive is a great combo piece with lazav, as he can copy creatures from your graveyard, turning it into a 1 card win condition that can beat soft hate like Grafdigger's Cage and Containment Priest. This gives us a hypercompact reanimation package that can beat some of the most common hate in the format. Here are our main buried alive piles:

Best Case Scenario (No pile pieces in hand):

Phyrexian Devourer,Walking Ballista, Necrotic Ooze

Mana required: 4 post buried alive

1. Activate Lazav, targeting Nooze

2. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using Devourer's ability.

3. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using Ballista, pinging an opponent until Lazav has 0 +1/+1 counters on him.

4. Repeat 2 and 3 until you've pinged everyone to death

Devourer or Ballista in hand:

Nooze, whichever other piece you don't have, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  . (Lazav needs to be able to tap)

Mana required: 4 mana post Buried Alive

1. Activate Lazav, targeting Nooze

2. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using JVP's ability. Discard your combo piece.

3. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using Devourer's ability.

4. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using Ballista, pinging an opponent until Lazav has 0 +1/+1 counters on him.

5. Repeat 3 and 4 until you've pinged everyone to death.

Worst Case Scenario (Nooze in hand):

Devourer, Ballista, JVP. (Lazav needs to be able to tap)

Mana required: 6 post Buried Alive

1. Activate Lazav, targeting JVP

2. Activate Lazav (JVP), discarding Nooze

3. Activate Lazav, targeting Nooze

4. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using Devourer's ability.

5. Activate Lazav (Nooze), using Ballista, pinging an opponent until Lazav has 0 +1/+1 counters on him.

6. Repeat 4 and 5 until you've pinged everyone to death.

Doomsday

Doomsday piles are very dependent on your pile cracker, and the resources you have when you cast doomsday. (All piles are listed from top to bottom), (Thought Scour can function both with it's own piles or as part of normal cantrip piles).

Normal cantrip pile: Costs (2 islands in play, for the cantrip, or for cling, 4 life post doomsday)

Gush, Lion's Eye Diamond, Deep Analysis, Lotus Petal, Thassa's Oracle.

Line: 1. Cast cantrip

1. Cast Gush, drawing LED and Deep Analysis.

2. Cast LED, making .

3. Flash Deep Analysis back drawing Petal and Oracle and floating .

4. Play Petal and crack it for .

5. Cast Oracle,resolve Oracle trigger, win.

Counterspell on oracle proof cantrip pile: Costs (2 islands in play, , 1 for the cantrip and 1 for the oracle, or if the cantrip is cling, 4 life post doomsday)

Gush, LED, Deep Analysis, Pact of Negation, Oracle.

Line: 1. Cast cantrip

1. Cast Gush, drawing LED and Deep Analysis.

2. Cast LED and then crack it., making .

3. Flash Deep Analysis back drawing Pact and Oracle, floating .

4. Cast Oracle with floating and leftover ,resolve Oracle trigger, win.

Grave hate/counterspell on oracle proof cantrip pile: (Costs 2 islands in play, , for the cantrip for the night's whisper if the cantrip is cling, 3 life post doomsday)

Gush, Night's Whisper, LED, Oracle, Dispel

Line:

1. Cast cantrip

2. Gush, drawing Night's Whisper and LED.

3. Play LED.

4. Play Night's Whisper, holding priority to crack LED for .

5. Cast Oracle with Dispel backup.

6. Resolve Oracle trigger, win.

Gushless cantrip pile: (Costs , U for the cantrip 1U for the Predict, if the cantrip is cling, 3 life post doomsday.)

Predict, any card, LED, Gitaxian Probe, Oracle.

Line: 1. Cantrip

1. Cast Predict, naming whatever card you put below the Predict in the pile

2. Cast LED

3. Cast Probe, cracking LED for in response.

4. Cast Oracle, resolve the oracle trigger, win.

Cracking the pile with predict:

Gushless Predict pile: (Costs for the predict. Needs 4 life post doomsday).

Deep Analysis, LED, Lotus Petal, Oracle, Dispel.

Line:

1. Predict, naming Deep Analysis and drawing Petal and LED.

2. Cast LED and Petal.

3. Crack LED for .

4. Flash Deep Analysis back, drawing Oracle and Dispel

5. Cast Oracle, Resolve the Oracle trigger, win.

Oracle-less predict pile: (Costs , needs Lazav in play or the additional and 3 life post doomsday. )

Laboratory Maniac, LED, Deep analysis, Gitaxian Probe, Mana Crypt.

Line:

1. Cast Predict, naming Lab Man

2. Cast LED, then crack it for

3. Flash Deep Analysis back, drawing Mana Crypt and Probe

4. Play Mana Crypt

5. Use Mana Crypt and pay the remaining to activate Lazav, becoming Lab Man

6. Cast Gitaxian probe, win.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	26 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.93
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Spirit 1/1 C