Lazav and the Grave Robbers

Commander / EDH Clone Mill Shapeshifter UB (Dimir)

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Instant (20)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Battle-Rage Blessing
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Didn't Say Please
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Murder
• 1x Negate
• 1x Recoil
• 1x See Double
• 1x Siphon Insight
• 1x Terror
• 1x Thought Collapse
• 1x Tyrant's Scorn
• 1x Unseal the Necropolis

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Apathy
• 1x Betrayal
• 1x Cunning Rhetoric
• 1x Dire Undercurrents
• 1x Jace's Erasure

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sorin Markov

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Amonkhet  ^Flip

Creature (19)

• 1x Body Double
• 1x Brainstealer Dragon
• 1x Cemetery Puca
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Cryptoplasm
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Ravenous Rats
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Thalakos Deceiver
• 1x Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Ashen Powder
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Blue Sun's Twilight
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Memory Sluice
• 1x Mind Funeral
• 1x Praetor's Grasp

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 12x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Obscura Storefront
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Sol Ring

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"I am who I pretend to be" -Body Double flavor text

This is a casual deck for fun with all sorts of graveyard usage, stealing, and creature copying. Not meant to be competitive but just make use of some really fun mechanics. I love Lazav, Dimir Mastermind as a Commander because he's hexproof and that means fewer times paying the Commander Tax. I also love that he can make use of any opponent's graveyard, giving you access to the most variety of creatures to copy. His versatility is almost endless, since almost every deck an opponent has will have someone in there worth copying to sling their own strategy back at them.

The primary mechanic of the deck is copying, stealing, or pulling from graveyards. This means there are a variety of ways to get cards into graveyards, including some mills, discard, counterspells, and destruction. Milling is not the core purpose of the deck but it's needed to build up enough interesting cards in graveyards to go browsing. Whatever creatures your opponents brought to the table will be the played against them!

• Body Double copies from any graveyard
• Cemetery Puca copies any creature as it hits a graveyard
• Clever Impersonator copies any permanent even a fancy land or artifact an opponent may have
• Clone is the OG
• Cryptoplasm copies an active creature and can change what it copies each turn
• Dimir Doppelganger copies from a graveyard and you get to exile that card, too
• Evil Twin makes a copy and then kills it! Score
• Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, Cunning Rhetoric, Brainstealer Dragon, Siphon Insight, and Gonti, Lord of Luxury allow you to cast from your opponent's cards
• Beacon of Unrest, Ashen Powder, Memory Plunder abuse graveyards to your advantage
• Fractured Sanity, Mind Funeral, Glimpse the Unthinkable, Memory Sluice and others help mill so your opponents always have lots of things for you to copy or steal (and fewer things to cast on their own)
• Empress Galina just takes others' legends away permanently; Desertion takes away a spell mid-cast.
• Praetor's Grasp let's you not only play one of your opponents' cards but actually go search for something good in the process and see what all they have in that library you keep milling.

And then there's Liliana Vess when all else fails. Just grab everyone's creatures from all graveyards. Or Sorin Markov to just take over an opponent for a turn.

There are handful of other counterspells in the deck like Counterspell and Didn't Say Please which I like in particular since it mills more fodder for your benefit. Some do two things like Drown in the Loch which offer destruction and countering.

Dire Undercurrents rewards you for blue creatures and hurts your opponents for black ones that come under your control. Many in this deck are actually both!

Forced Fruition is this deck's version of a red chaos card - if an opponent so much as casts a spell, they're going to have to discard - lots if they cast another spell. While feeding opponents their best cards, it also ensures a steady stream of discards into their graveyards.

With the new battle card type, Invasion of Amonkhet   was a natural fit as it both results in mill and when defeated can enter as a clone of a graveyard creatures.

All in all it's about having fun, and turning your opponents against themselves with their creatures and typical black/blue shenanigans of destruction and control.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Cool decks, My Commander Decks