---
name: "Lazav, Dimir Mastermind"
mana_cost: "{U}{U}{B}{B}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B", "U"]
keywords: ["Hexproof"]
set: "GTC"
set_name: "Gatecrash"
collector_number: "174"
rarity: "mythic"
artist: "David Rapoza"
oracle_id: "8027a610-613e-4640-9840-c8778694f312"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/lazav-dimir-mastermind-gtc"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- **Mana Cost:** `{U}{U}{B}{B}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter
- **Keywords:** Hexproof

## Oracle Text
Hexproof
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Lazav, the Multifarious](/printing/lazav-the-multifarious-mkc.md) — Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter
2. [Lazav, Familiar Stranger](/printing/lazav-familiar-stranger-otj.md) — Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter
3. [Lazav, Wearer of Faces](/printing/lazav-wearer-of-faces-mkm.md) — Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Detective
4. [Dimir Doppelganger](/printing/dimir-doppelganger-cns.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter
5. [Volrath's Shapeshifter](/printing/volraths-shapeshifter-vma.md) — Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
6. [Vizier of Many Faces](/printing/vizier-of-many-faces-mkc.md) — Creature — Shapeshifter Cleric

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Gatecrash (GTC) #174
- **Rarity:** Mythic
- **Artist:** David Rapoza
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2013-01-24)* If multiple creature cards are put into an opponent's graveyard at the same time, you choose the order that Lazav's triggered abilities go on the stack.
- *(2013-01-24)* Token creatures dying won't cause Lazav's triggered ability to trigger.
- *(2013-01-24)* Lazav, Dimir Mastermind becomes a copy of the creature card in the graveyard. If that card is no longer in the graveyard when Lazav's ability resolves, use the characteristics of that card as it last existed in the graveyard. Notably, copy effects that applied to the creature card when it was on the battlefield won't be copied by Lazav. For example, if a Clone is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield and you use Lazav's ability, it will become 0/0. It won't become a copy of whatever Clone was copying.
- *(2013-01-24)* "Enters" abilities of the creature card Lazav is copying won't trigger as Lazav is already on the battlefield when it becomes a copy of that creature card.