Lavinia; Control/Stax

Commander / EDH

Nuclearzerg

Instant (21)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Silence
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Suppression Field

Artifact (20)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Knowledge Pool
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (8)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Treasure Mage

Commander (1)

Land (30)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 7x Island
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 7x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment

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This deck is focused on locking out your opponents, then slowly winning by bashing them with something like Luminarch Ascension .

Despite this being an azorious control deck, I avoided any cards with a taxing effect. Taxing effects, such as the one with Thalia, Guardian of Thraben or GAAIV, aren't too synergistic with Lavinia as they make zero drops playable again.

Here's a list of the components of this deck, and explanations as to how they all work together:

Combos

• Knowledge Pool
• Omen Machine
• Eye of the Storm
• Helm of Awakening
• Rest in Peace
• Dream Halls

Lavinia plus the first three all act as locks. With Eye of the Storm being the least powerful of the three, generally putting out any of these will gear you towards victory. Eye of the Storm is definitely the easiest to deal with, but can still be devastating; especially against storm. Denying your opponents the ability to exploit Dream Halls also works well with Lavinia.

There is also Helm of Obedience + Rest in Peace to mill your opponents' entire libraries. I included this combo since both of these cards work nicely on their own, and adding another wincon opens up more options. Isochron Scepter + Silence is by no means a pure lock, but it can prove to be quite difficult to deal with, especially in 1v1s. Otherwise, the scepter can still be used with other good spells, like Enlightened Tutor to easily fetch the wincons.

Tutors

• Enlightened Tutor
• Fabricate
• Mystical Tutor
• Inventors' Fair
• Whir of Invention
• Treasure Mage
• Reshape
• Idyllic Tutor
• Muddle the Mixture

The tutors are mainly here to look for the Knowledge Pool or Omen Machine , as they are your primary wincons.

Removal

• Day of Judgment
• Supreme Verdict
• Wrath of God
• Cyclonic Rift
• Evacuation
• Disenchant
• Swords to Plowshares
• Removal

After establishing a lock, these can be very useful to more firmly secure it.

Draw Engines

• Anticipate
• Dig Through Time
• Fact or Fiction
• Impulse
• Sphinx's Revelation
• Stroke of Genius
• Baral, Chief of Compliance
• Rhystic Study
• Mystic Remora
• Land Tax
• Memory Jar
• Windfall

These are obviously an important component to the deck, as they sculpt through your deck for the wincons.

Counters

• Negate
• Force of Will
• Counterspell
• Delay
• Mana Drain
• Muddle the Mixture
• Render Silent
• Swan Song
• Counterbalance

I wanted to include a good amount of counters to better ensure that Knowledge Pool or Omen Machine can be cast. Delay pretty much works nicely as an even cheaper Counterspell when Lavinia is out. Muddle the Mixture is in here since it can search for some powerful cards like Rest in Peace or Isochron Scepter .

Mana Rocks

• Azorius Signet
• Basalt Monolith
• Chromatic Lantern
• Gilded Lotus
• Mox Amber
• Sol Ring
• Talisman of Progress
• Thought Vessel
• Thran Dynamo
• Mana Crypt
• Grim Monolith
• Mana Vault

A good amount of these can help to pump out the combo setups faster.

Denial/Coverage

• Silence
• Aven Mindcensor
• Containment Priest
• Ethersworn Canonist
• Grand Abolisher
• Propaganda
• Ghostly Prison
• Grafdigger's Cage
• Conqueror's Flail
• Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• Suppression Field
• Cursed Totem
• Back to Basics

Lastly, these cards limit your opponents' available actions, making the locks work more securely.

This approach to Lavinia as a commander is mainly focused on the card's combo potential, which sort of ends up working as a control/stax deck. This deck is (sort of) meant for cEDH. I don't expect it to compete as well against some of the other cEDH decks out there, but I do hope that it can at least firmly hold its ground.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Isochron Scepter + Silence Helm of Obedience + Rest in Peace
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.71
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U