Per Capita by Mochibun

Format: Commander

Commander: Lazav, Familiar Stranger

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir mill, reanimator, and crime-synergy deck commanded by Lazav, Familiar Stranger. The strategy focuses on milling all players using efficient recurring enablers like Hedron Crab, Mesmeric Orb, and Court of Cunning. As graveyards fill, Lazav triggers from crimes (targeting opponents or their graveyards) to gain +1/+1 counters and copy high-impact creatures such as The Ancient One, Cruel Somnophage, or an unblockable Blighted Agent. The deck also deploys independent heavy-hitting finishers including Consuming Aberration, Gisa, the Hellraiser, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, capable of draining opponents during mass mill bursts from Maddening Cacophony or Cut Your Losses. A compact backup win condition exists in Bloodchief Ascension paired with Mindcrank, looping infinite life loss and mill. The deck supports its game plan with efficient creature recursion, low-cost countermagic, versatile black removal, and board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Covetous Castaway // Ghostly Castigator
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deepmuck Desperado
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Increasing Confusion
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lazav, Familiar Stranger
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Indulgence
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Echoverse Fulcrum
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vadmir, New Blood
  • 1 Watery Grave