Lazav Mill n' Kill

Commander / EDH Combo Control Mill Reanimator UB (Dimir) Wheels

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Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 11x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (13)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Trepanation Blade
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (17)

• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Soaring Thought-Thief
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Nemesis of Reason

Instant (13)

• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Visions of Beyond
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Drown in Dreams
• 1x Recoil
• 1x Soul Shatter
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x See Double
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Into the Story

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Pelakka Predation  ^Flip
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Bond of Insight
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Necromantic Selection

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Patient Rebuilding

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Artifact (1)

• 1x Grinning Totem

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Why Choose Lazav, Dimir Mastermind?

Though there are quite a few choices for mill commanders, I felt that Lazav, Dimir Mastermind would be the perfect commander to helm this deck. Lazav doesn't mill the opponents himself such as Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker or enhance the efficiency of mill like Bruvac the Grandiloquent but instead acts as a payoff for the mill strategy. Lazav has natural Hexproof which makes it harder for the opponents to remove him off the board. Removal and discard effects also trigger Lazav's ability which allows us to bleed into using these effects as well.

Another one of the most important aspects of Lazav is that he is a very mediocre commander. It's safe to say that Lazav is not the most powerful or popular mill commander. Because of this I found that this deck plays very well in most environments and can hang with other Mid to High tier commander decks except for the most extreme powered cEDH decks. He doesn't draw too much attention and in the off chance that he is utterly hated off of the board, the rest of the deck can run smoothly without him.

How The Deck Plays

The goal of the deck is to mill opponents and gain value from their graveyards. The early game is all about playing low costed permanents like Ruin Crab, Mindcrank, Psychic Corrosion, or any of the other incremental mill pieces. From there play Lazav and start controlling the board. Play wheels, removal, and mill effects to find good creatures for Lazav to copy or for reanimate spells to target. Lazav likes to copy big or evasive creatures, preferably ones with attack triggers. Big beaters like Guiltfeeder or Consuming Aberration can easily knock opponents out of the game and the various combos included in the deck will quickly wither life totals, or libraries, into oblivion!

Notable Pieces and Combos

Notable Pieces

Duskmantle Guildmage -Turns anything hitting the graveyard into life loss.

Mindcrank -Turns life loss into mill.

Bloodchief Ascension -Turns anything hitting the graveyard into life loss and life gain.

Maddening Cacophony -Mills each opponent and scales with the game to mill libraries in half.

Muddle the Mixture -Decent counterspell or a tutor that can search for any two cmc card. Many combo pieces are two cmc such as Duskmantle Guildmage, Mindcrank, or Maddening Cacophony.

Notion Thief -Pairs nicely with wheel effects or to stop an opponent from drawing a lot of cards.

Guiltfeeder -Turns graveyard size into damage and has evasion.

Consuming Aberration -Big beater that makes every spell mill opponents which grows its power and toughness.

Combos

Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank

Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank

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Date added	2 years
Last updated	9 months
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
Folders	Built Decks, Awesome decks, Usar con los panas