Lazav vs Sek'Kuar vs Geralf vs Arixmethes EDH / CMDR game play for Magic: The Gathering

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[@wafflesporq]

"No, I'M the Dimir Mastermind!"

[@normangarcia6081]

"No, I'M the Dimir Mastermind!"

[@sunutopia]

“No, I’M the Dimir Mastermind!”

[@CriticoDeNo0bs]

"No, I'M the Dimir Mastermind!"

[@ethiancortes6213]

"No, I'M the Dimir Mastermind!" Or not??? Who am I??????

[@jamescampbell2353]

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[@DarkEinherjar]

A lot of people are questioning it, so... Clone and all of its variations, including Clever Impersonator, have a static ability that changes how they enter the battlefield. It isn't a triggered ability, and as such, can't have any targets, so it bypasses hexproof, shroud and even protection. So yes, Clever Impersonator can copy Lazav.

[@danielslack9114]

Replacement ability, not static ability. Otherwise you are correct. Edit: Ignore me. They are right.

[@DarkEinherjar]

@@danielslack9114 All abilities on a permanent or permanent card that are not activated or triggered are static. It creates a replacement effect, yes, but it's still a static ability.

[@danielslack9114]

@@DarkEinherjar Huh. I had always heard that they were different things, but I looked it up and you are 100% right. Learn something new every day.

[@soulanski]

makes me think of the spider man pointing picture

[@rangabharadwaj5730]

I love how the MVP card of this game wasn't even cast till the last rotation

[@sofer2230]

"Nick draws a third of his library." The quintessential Commander sentence. If you hear that on Turn 10, *someone* is dying soon. (Even if it was just a single card).

[@superwill1238]

"HE'S LAZAV! HE'S LAZAV! YOU'RE LAZAV! I'M LAZAV! Are there any more Lazavs I should know about!?!?" "I become a copy of Kozilek with Hexproof who is named Lazav""

[@Devilish420]

Ha! Spongebob reference, but with Lazav 😅

[@ethiancortes6213]

Meow.....

[@GaucheEtVeule]

This was the most convoluted, copycat, showstopping, butcheryoftruth, copycat, mill-friendly, copycat game I've ever seen

[@sunutopia]

Alessandro Ducroz copycat

[@laneawakeDan]

Imagine being Martin in this game, bringing a pretty normal death-value EDH deck to the table and playing against three players who all copy Lazav and Kozilek over and over

[@maggotentertainment74]

Drawing half your library has never been that bad!

[@greatbrandini3967]

You know your deck is having an identity crisis when you're playing a Lazav deck and your opponents are doing more Lazav things than you are.

[@flusterfluff]

It's Lazav. It's always Lazav. They laughed at me when I told them. They were all Lazav as well.

[@insheepsclothing5574]

Have you ever heard a word so many times that it ends up losing all meaning? That's me with "Lazav" after this game

[@youngyan4398]

Me? I know who I am! I’m a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!

[@darksteelmenace595]

I love how three people had a Lazav. Think Im rebuilding my lazav deck

[@Andy-ye2re]

I'm doing that too :)

[@malachifreedman3975]

This video inspired me to make a Lazav deck. I had one leftover when I took apart the rogues precon from zendikar rising.

[@djrafikii559]

KoziLazav caught me by surprise. Nice addition

[@savsa-yt]

I think there's a mistake in the thumbnail of the video: I can't see Kozilek.

[@fredthered98]

Always nice to wake up and see some Muddstah matches

[@paodequeijo7231]

These were the most timmy blue decks I've ever seen. All of them were hitting really hard and no countermagic makes this a really nice game. Congrats

[@kingginger3335]

11:20 the power and toughness of Consuming Aberration is equal to your opponents graveyards. It does not include your own. I think Nick's Aberration may have been bigger than Max's copy. That could've changed the outcome of the swing.

[@RunninOnYT]

What an amazing coincidence that you happen to upload a match with Lazav in it, a day after I've started to look into Lazav again.

[@forerealz]

Man this game was awesome!! The flavor of sending a fleet of Fleet Swallowers from the Slumbering Isle Kraken is pure joy.

[@A3Nargi]

THAT was a hell of a game! Lot of shifting power and crazy interaction. Loved it

[@SomewhereInMiddleEarth]

I love the Danse Macabre playing in the background!!!

[@akarabbit839]

Names Geralf, i’m a stitcher....

[@DarkEinherjar]

This is the type of crazy game I love: everyone copying everyone else's stuff.

[@vader1137]

I'm pretty sure the only player not enjoying this game is the one that doesn't have blue!

[@ToHitACZero]

That was amazing. I felt like Kozilek and Lazav should have jumped out from behind the curtain after the match and shouted "The Aristocrats!"

[@6LordMortus9]

I know you said this was an old game.. but getting the graveyard shuffle affect from a Kozi-Lazav would be nice :)

[@mikeshaver-miller745]

It doesn’t matter that the Lazav player was taken out; this game is the most Lazav thing that’s ever happened in a game of magic. It’s in perfect flavour for Lazav to literally be everywhere.

[@chrisogorman8446]

Great game, thanks Muddstah!

[@theaspirant549]

Lazav, Geralf and Arixmethes? In one game? Count me in bro!

[@calebbacci1742]

I love LOVE the mill representation here

[@romelalters8078]

While reading the 2nd line in the description about their upload schedule, I read it in Andrew's voice inside my head 🤣

[@copperfield42]

12:28 get flashback to game knight's animation, that was hilarious XD

[@RATZGobbler]

I was worried this would be a game with a storm count where nothing resolves. Happy to see all the clones

[@zachw3548]

This game was crazy good! Keep up the awesome vids muddstah

[@MTGMuddstah]

Thanks! Will do!

[@Buchaus]

Consuming Aberration only counts cards in your opponent's graveyards, so they probably would have had different power and toughness even before the pump and trample from Garruk. It really didn't matter much because of how high Nick's life total was at the time, and because both Aberrations died right after Chris left the game, but unless they had the exact same amount of cards in their graveyards, he would have taken more (or less) than 3 damage.

[@Devilish420]

This was a beautiful match. So many kozilek and fleet swallower copies. I need a fleet swallower for my mill deck so bad !

[@LeatherMiasma]

Man that Geralf deck Is so cool.

[@Grand_Admiral]

Kozilek should have been on the thumbnail for this video.

[@genbu2870]

More Lazav games would be cool

[@TheKitsunefire]

Bro you can feeeeel the tension between max and nick. Max gets tech-edged, gets threatened with lethal, and BAM! flings that aetherspout onto the board. THEN MARTIN RUINS IT!

[@heraxunhex1056]

Deep analysis. Pay 3. No 2

[@josiahkemp4454]

This game made for a nice and cozy Monday.

[@AP-lf7xd]

Ok so I'm now seriously rethinking fleet swallower as a win con. That's insane how fast they mill someone out.

[@matheusrian7521]

And that is why I play vision skeins in my mill deck!

[@TheManAndTheLedgend]

Wow what an awesome game!

[@AidanWR]

That Ætherspout was spicy. Too bad he could get through one more turn

[@seasnek7024]

This game felt like it embodied ophra with "You get a lazav", "You get a lazav", "EVERYBODY GETS A LAZAV"

[@jeffersonnorup8747]

I just watched a Liam Neeson movie and that Sticher Geralf from the right angle looks kinda like him

[@bosser18]

This was a wild game

[@bucket9106]

The azors gateway stays tapped when it transforms tho

[@greatbrandini3967]

Nope, Azor's Gateway's activated ability says to untap and then transform.

[@bucket9106]

@@greatbrandini3967 oh fr, I'll stay silent then lmao

[@Schiedog]

So, why goblins? Were they a tribe you played a lot when you first started playing magic?

[@Kef_09]

I think there is a big miss play on the sanctum of the sun, when the artifact transform it remain tap because it never left the battlefield. Please correct me if i am wrong.

[@dave_eagle2787]

Part of Azor’s Gateway ability is that you untap it and then transform it.

[@Kef_09]

@@dave_eagle2787 Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different converted mana costs are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it. Miss that untap part

[@forsureitsme]

I think both Lazav couldn't become a copy of Kozilek because when Lazav's ability is resolving the Kozilek card isn't in that graveyard anymore due to the order of the triggers shuffling it back into Max's deck before...

[@MTGMuddstah]

I can see why you would think so, but Lazav only cares that a creature entered the graveyard. Whether it stays there or not, Lazav cares little.

[@princess-celestia]

My amusement increases with each clone.

[@ericd1022]

Yo this game was insane. really enjoyed it

[@dra9on_sw0rd4]

Was I the only one hoping for a sign in blood on the last turn?

[@nickbond9526]

I mean *I* wasn't, but I might be a little biased..

[@excludedsteppe3990]

This was soooo good

[@tanphuoclam9683]

Love your vids

[@novaknight30]

What a spicy game

[@nickbond9526]

Oh jeez, yeah, this was a buck wild game.

[@yabootzyyy6809]

Very interactive game but not by spells but by creatures.

[@briankuczynski6884]

The music should have been 'Copy of A' by Nine Inch Nails

[@CriticoDeNo0bs]

Poor Martin, he was the only non-Lazav player

[@behemoth1158]

Im the first but dont know what to say:( anyways muddstah keep up the good work and take breaks if u need them

[@robinkube16]

I havend finished watching the game and I dont know if it will impact it but deep analisys costs 3 life to flashback

[@stefantincescu7169]

Wow, incredible game

[@ethiancortes6213]

Wow, incredible comment

[@kryger4840]

Shouldn’t the Clever Impersonator not been able to target Lazav due to hexproof? Edit: Same with Stunt Double

[@MTGMuddstah]

Clones don't target. Hexproof doesn't prevent them from becoming copies.

[@hclacid91]

Damn, i really wanted that Arixmethes decklist :/

[@ethiancortes6213]

If you let me rename this nightmare video I´ll would name it "the night of the shapeshifters millers" gosh

[@thescribe509]

Here's one of those games where even the absurdly rule-bent or error-seeking won't commit the effort to figure out what might have been. This was a ridiculous game from Kozilek to Kozilek.

[@KromeDrone]

There was more milling in this game than in every game you ever played with Phenax.

[@MTGMuddstah]

Fact!

[@thekappa3369]

I love danse macabre

[@uprasher8783]

I dont understand, how they copy (target) Lazav when ability say that creature still have hexproof...

[@Sinthorasan]

Copying doesn‘t target a creature, it just „enters as a copy“ of any object / permanent on the battlefield. Therefor hexproof doesn‘t prevent copy effects.

[@DarkEinherjar]

Most Clone abilities don't target (in Magic, an effect only targets if it's an aura being cast or if it has the word "target" on it), so they bypass hexproof, shroud and even protection.

[@uprasher8783]

Ok, thanks guys 😁

[@NoiseVomiter]

Because it doesnt target. For example, clever impersonator doesnt target.

[@allinmiraflor7114]

Noice

[@admanios]

Nice nails, Nick! :D

[@Spulverin15]

Looovley! One of the funniest games ever :)

[@thomasle7668]

Fleet Swallower? More like Yeet Swallower

[@Quroe_]

Ah, clones. Always a fun archetype.

[@ujai5271]

Chris really made some suspect plays in this game

[@MTGMuddstah]

It was our fifth(?) and last game of the night. Most people were pretty wiped out so better lines might have been missed.

[@DAsrada]

I was rooting for Max, kind of feels like reality itself bent over backwards to make Nick the winner.

[@TTKBlazer97]

wouldn't the grieves have made the hammer fall off from shroud?

[@Arcdemon44]

Shroud doesn't make any equipment or auras fall off, just prevents that creature from being targeted by anything that follows.

[@TTKBlazer97]

@@Arcdemon44 I see. so equip grieves last, got it

[@Arcdemon44]

@@TTKBlazer97 correct

[@felixdecastro]

Could Clever Impersonator copy lazav?

[@MTGMuddstah]

Yup!

[@johanhi2]

At 10:00 max just has to reveal the top card of his libary. But the action to "draw X cards" is performt at once. After that he has to reveal the than new top card of his deck. So he doesnt have to show you each draw

[@zealot2147]

Incorrect. Draw x is step by step, it's the same with courser or oracle or future sight or anything to that effect. When you would draw and something makes your library public, you must reveal each iteration of card draw since the action of drawing has you draw a card, and a new one is on top. Since a new card is on top it must be revealed. What you don't need to show are instances of look at the top x, don't have to show the cards you're pondering (until you finish rearranging the top 3)

[@Sinthorasan]

That’s not correct, Rule 121.2 states that if a player is instructed to draw multiple cards, he performs that many individual card draws.

[@romanmccoy5074]

annihilator is such a stupid mechanic

[@MTGMuddstah]

Yup!

[@vyg55]

Lazav!

[@Tastingo117]

Will the real Lazav please stand up?

[@kool-iguana1132]

Shouldnt have martin taken commander damage from chris

[@MTGMuddstah]

I may have missed something. What time around?

[@kool-iguana1132]

9:33 thanks for the amazing videos, they always make my day

[@MTGMuddstah]

@@kool-iguana1132 You're 100% correct! I must have missed it in post. Good catch!

[@Jonzin4BeatzNYC]

I listened to it without visual for shits and giggles

[@Breviparopus]

Lazav has hexproof so you played the whole game wrong

[@grieftyrant1885]

He couldn't have targeted Lazav, as whatever creature he becomes, he keeps his hexproof,. For the rest, nice game!

[@MTGMuddstah]

Clones don't target.

[@ryanoak9]

Actually, all clone effects are “As this enters the battlefield, ____ becomes a copy of any creature.” Which does not have target.

[@grieftyrant1885]

@@MTGMuddstah Totally forgot, my bad :)

[@fenixmeaney6170]

@@grieftyrant1885 well now you know May this knowledge find much use in your future games

[@DarkEinherjar]

Too bad this is an old game... otherwise, Chris could've shuffled his graveyard back into the library when Kozilazav died.

[@MTGMuddstah]

Yea, the new change would have had some pretty wild implications for this game.