Card

Lazav, the Multifarious

Mana cost {U}{B}

Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter 1/3

When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {X}: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.

Part of 13 known combos, one of them two-card. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · GRN · #184
Cheapest printing
€0.19
EDHREC salt
0.25
Color identity
Black, Blue
Keywords
Surveil

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Mirror-Mad Phantasm
  • B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Mirror-Mad Phantasm
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • Two-card combo with Mirror-Mad Phantasm (none of them early)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

13 known combos, one of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
  • 2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast
    Lazav copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics it specifically modifies. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.
  • 2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast
    Because Lazav isn't entering the battlefield when it becomes a copy of a card, any "When this enters the battlefield" or "This enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied card won't apply.
  • 2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast
    Any effects that applied to Lazav before it becomes a copy of another card will continue to apply once it's become a copy. The same is true of any counters that are on Lazav.
  • 2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • 2018-10-05 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the copied card has an ability that can be activated only once each turn, copying that card a second time will allow you to activate the new instance of that ability.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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