Whenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.
Attack with Lazav to exile creatures from graveyards and generate Clue tokens, then sacrifice those Clues to transform Lazav into copies of the best creatures you've banked. You grind value through repeated investigation while cherry-picking powerful attackers off opponents' graveyards, turning Lazav into whatever threat the board demands. The deck wins by accumulating card advantage and converting Clues into evasive, high-impact bodies.
Cheap two-mana commander that immediately impacts the board and snowballs card advantage via Clues
Flexible threat that can become any exiled creature, dodging targeted removal by re-copying after each sacrifice
Graveyard hate built in—exiling opponents' creatures disrupts reanimator and recursion decks
Strong synergy with sacrifice payoffs, artifact tokens, and self-mill/dredge to fuel options
Lazav must connect in combat to generate value, so it relies on evasion and board presence
Copy ability is fleeting (only until end of turn), giving no permanent board state
Mana-hungry: paying per Clue to draw or copy stretches resources
Vulnerable to graveyard hate from opponents that empties the fuel for its copies
Lacks a built-in fast clock—can be slow against dedicated combo decks
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