MTG Salvation

Ahem.

When Gatecrash first was spoiled,
It made me very sad,
because dimir got the shaft, you see,
and all their cards were bad.

"The scrubs want mill!" the rc cried,
and cried, as well, did I,
Because mill is the worst strategy in the history of magic that gathering,
Oh hi.

And when I saw their guiltmaster,
I saw, at first, a hope,
but then dismissed it since, I thought,
He's too inconsistent of a bloke.

Lazav, Lazav, you sneaky dimir man,
You stole your way into my heart as only dimir can,
With cleverness, stealth, and shapeshifting,
You found a way to make me sing.

For when I looked at him again,
I realized to myself,
That though he's hard to predict,
He's bound to be top-shelf.

For no matter what he does become,
because this is commander,
He's bound to be hit something deadly,
with hexproof made much grander.

And though it's hard to control precisely,
who he'll be right next,
you can bet your bottom dollar,
on the board he'll be the best.

Lazav, Lazav, you sneaky dimir man,
You stole your way into my heart as only dimir can,
With cleverness, stealth, and shapeshifting,
You found a way to make me sing.

fin.

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Ok, enough arts and crafts. Decklist time!



I wanted the deck to revolve heavily around the general and combat, so the general strategy of the deck is to tutor for the most potent swords it can, and start going to town every turn for the awesome procs. Lazav should just be off doing his thing, getting you more resources and bringing your opponents closer to death with each swing, while you hold down the fort with the powerful counterspell and removal suite, backed up by a nasty recursion package that keeps everything at your fingertips. Draw is sort of light, but that's mostly because lazav should be getting you plenty of draw off sofi and mask, especially with fireshrieker.

Let me know what you think about the deck, or about my amazing poetry skills.

I like the different approach to Lazav. A control shell with voltron win condition is pretty sweet. Having hexproof already puts him in the realm of decent voltron general, the fact that he can be super huge without swords depending on who you copy with him helps as well. I also like that you didn't go heavy into the mill people to get Lazav targets strategy. Just counter/kill creatures as they appear and you'll have plenty of targets.

Do you mean Wash Out as opposed to wash away? If so, this along with Cyclonic Rift make me want Windfall and Whispering Madness in your list. Especially with Notion Thief. Windfall basically reads "All opponents discard their hands and you draw 28 cards". Of course that could be dangerous, but could be fun too...

Dauthi Embrace seems good here.

Dregs of Sorrow is usually less economical than Decree of Pain, but I like it in Lazav since you can cast it for 7, kill two creatures, picking one to copy with Lazav and drawing two cards.

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I like the different approach to Lazav. A control shell with voltron win condition is pretty sweet. Having hexproof already puts him in the realm of decent voltron general, the fact that he can be super huge without swords depending on who you copy with him helps as well. I also like that you didn't go heavy into the mill people to get Lazav targets strategy. Just counter/kill creatures as they appear and you'll have plenty of targets.

Do you mean Wash Out as opposed to wash away? If so, this along with Cyclonic Rift make me want Windfall and Whispering Madness in your list. Especially with Notion Thief. Windfall basically reads "All opponents discard their hands and you draw 28 cards". Of course that could be dangerous, but could be fun too...

Dauthi Embrace seems good here.

Dregs of Sorrow is usually less economical than Decree of Pain, but I like it in Lazav since you can cast it for 7, kill two creatures, picking one to copy with Lazav and drawing two cards.

i did mean wash out, good catch.

good point about whispering madness and co, especially with the notion thief. I'll see if I can wedge it in somewhere. Might be dangerous to put it on lazav though, i could deck myself pretty fast, especially with double strike.

dauthi embrace seems meh, unless i'm missing something. Since lazav is all i'd really want to attack with, something as lame as trailblazer's boots would probably be better, especially since it can't target him when he's got a pro-black sword on. Generally, though, I'm aiming to use swords with

i generally dislike nonblack removal, and expensive cards in general, hence the lack of decree.

If you're looking for evasion + card advantage, you'll want Mask of Riddles.

If you read Notion Theif closely, he does not say may, so you must draw the cards. So if someone plays concsecrated sphinx,or something to that effect, they just milled your deck. I know this from personal experience.:mad:

Overall however, I like the idea of Voltron Lazav. Its a really cool deck to be sure.:nod: