Lavinia Locks

Commander / EDH* Control Land Destruction Stax Tempo WU (Azorius)

Futuremonk

Creature (19)

• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Magus of the Balance
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Tomik, Distinguished Advokist
• 1x Walking Atlas
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Spell Queller
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Aven Fogbringer
• 1x Glowing Anemone
• 1x Loxodon Gatekeeper
• 1x Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Surgespanner
• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Artifact (14)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sphere of the Suns
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Fieldmist Borderpost
• 1x Worn Powerstone
• 1x Khalni Gem
• 1x Knowledge Pool
• 1x Omen Machine

Land (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 12x Island
• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 8x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Fall of the Thran
• 1x Eye of the Storm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Hoodwink
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Thassa's Intervention
• 1x Release to the Wind
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fortune's Favor
• 1x Rewind

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Eye of Nowhere
• 1x Winds of Abandon
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Catastrophe

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Call the Gatewatch

Creature (1)

• 1x Waker of Waves

Artifact (1)

• 1x Ward of Bones

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

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Have you ever wanted to win a game of Magic by stopping your opponents from being able to play? Well, this is the deck for you!

I wouldn't play it every game, but Lavinia, Azorius Renegade is the perfect stax commander to play in a game 2 after one of your friends has given you reason for revenge in game 1.

Lavinia shuts down noncreature spells your opponents cast that cost more than the lands they control. So anyone ramping with mana rocks is going to have a bad day.

She gets even better though. If an opponent casts a spell but doesn't spend any mana to cast it, she counters it. So no Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign or Narset, Enlightened Master or Golos, Tireless Pilgrim nonsense.

You could just passively play Lavania as a generic control commander for those two upsides, but why not go one step further? Why not play some land disruption to bounce your opponents' lands or just destroy all lands with Armageddon or Fall of the Thran or Catastrophe? No more noncreature spells for them! (If your playgroup isn't cool with mass land destruction, consider those free spaces to add whatever other spells you want.) In order to benefit the most from this, the deck runs a ton of mana rocks and dorks, as well as a few ways to return its own lands to your hand, so you can still cast things after all the lands are gone.

But that's not all! Lavinia also wants you to force your opponents to try to cast spells without paying their mana costs. That's what Omen Machine, Eye of the Storm, and Knowledge Pool -- as well as a few other cards -- are for. Knowledge Pool is a hard lock -- it completely prevents your opponents from casting spells, while you get your choice of whatever spells anyone foolishly tried to cast whenever you cast spells. Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir locks your opponents with these cards too, so he's in the deck for redundancy.

Lastly, since Omen Machine prevents card draw, I included Spirit of the Labyrinth and everyone's favorite planeswalker: Narset, Parter of Veils. Furthermore, planning on not being able to draw cards, all the card advantage in the deck consists of spells like Impulse that let you dig through your deck without technically drawing -- so even shutting down card draw for all players won't hurt you at all!

Should be fun … for you, at least.

Suggestions welcome!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02