Lazav, Familiar Stranger

Lazav, Familiar Stranger

Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter

Mana cost: {1}{U}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Lazav. Then you may exile a card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn.

triggered — puts a counter on it

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — copies a permanent

What we read on this card

Causes: put a counter on anything, exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, copy anything.

Cares about: a card in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves a graveyard — 1,215 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  4. Fang, Fearless l'Cie — draws you 1 card
  5. Teval's Judgment — triggers

a creature gets a counter — 786 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger gets a counter:

  1. Danny Pink — draws you 1 card
  2. Bold Plagiarist — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Rikku, Resourceful Guardian — triggers

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 3,770 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this.

  1. Windrider Wizard — Windrider Wizard puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  2. Master of Winds — Master of Winds puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  3. Liliana the Repentant — Liliana the Repentant puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  4. Exhibition Tidecaller — Exhibition Tidecaller puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  5. Tenured Oilcaster — Tenured Oilcaster puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  6. Billowing Shriekmass — Billowing Shriekmass puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  7. Devourer of Memory — Devourer of Memory puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  8. Screeching Silcaw — Screeching Silcaw puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  9. Scrabbling Skullcrab — Scrabbling Skullcrab puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  10. Hedron Crab — Hedron Crab puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  11. Ruin Crab — Ruin Crab puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  12. Drowner Initiate — Drowner Initiate puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back
  13. Consuming Aberration — Consuming Aberration puts cards into the graveyard that Lazav, Familiar Stranger can bring back

3,844 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 6,258 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  3. Chorale of the Void — brings a card back
  4. Screaming Swarm — mills a card
  5. Imperious Mindbreaker — mills a card
  6. Staff of Titania — makes a token
  7. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  8. Gisa's Favorite Shovel — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
  9. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls
  10. Throwing Knife — sacrifices itself

63 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 6,258 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger attacks:

  1. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  2. ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot — puts a quest counter on itself
  3. Fire Navy Trebuchet — makes a token
  4. Madame Web, Clairvoyant — mills a card
  5. Dimir Strandcatcher — surveils
  6. Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate — grants deathtouch
  7. Rev, Tithe Extractor — grants deathtouch
  8. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  9. Krydle of Baldur's Gate — triggers
  10. Alora, Merry Thief — triggers

15 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature blocks — 6,258 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger blocks:

  1. Mage Hunters' Onslaught — makes a player lose 1 life
  2. Barrow-Blade — strips abilities
  3. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature
  4. Dwindle — kills a creature

4 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature deals combat damage — 6,258 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

  1. Hive Mind Coprocessor — When Lazav, Familiar Stranger deals combat damage, Hive Mind Coprocessor makes you lose life

98 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is cast — 6,287 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger is cast:

  1. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder — makes that spell's mana value tokens
  2. Oketra's Monument — makes a token
  3. The Clone Saga — copies a spell
  4. Customs Depot — draws you 1 card
  5. Bontu's Monument — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Skittering Horror — sacrifices itself
  7. Skittering Skirge — sacrifices itself
  8. Skittering Monstrosity — sacrifices itself
  9. Hazoret's Monument — draws and discards
  10. Aether Barrier — makes a player sacrifice a permanent

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 6,508 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger enters:

  1. Arni, Humble Scribe — untaps itself
  2. Minion Reflector — makes a token
  3. Overburden — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 6,953 cards in Lazav's colors can cause this (Lazav is one).

When Lazav, Familiar Stranger enters:

  1. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  2. Pollywog Prodigy — puts a counter on itself
  3. Ayara, First of Locthwain — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Blasting Station — untaps itself
  5. Sage of the Falls — draws you 1 card
  6. Bloodline Pretender — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Sage's Row Denizen — mills a card
  8. Monkey Cage — sacrifices itself
  9. Tainted Aether — makes a player sacrifice a creature or land
  10. Lethal Vapors — kills it

61 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.