The_Amazing_Frog
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Who's who?\n\nThis deck was made for the October deck contest and is themed around the \"trick\" portion of the prompt.\n\nThe main idea is that almost every card either enters as or can become a copy of another target creature. While not the most overpowered deck it has a really high potential when it comes to a control style of play, the broad strategy is to use the best parts of your opponent's decks against them while also creating extra copies of those game winning pieces for yourself\n\nstarting with the commander you can have any of the Lazav variants in the zone but I feel that "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lazav, Dimir Mastermind"}},{"insert":" is the best fit as it provides a more consistent targeted transformation and stays as the copied creature until you chose to change it which can either help to target a specific strategy or to throw your opponents off the trail of your real plan.\n\nfor control you have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Identity Thief"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wall of Stolen Identity"}},{"insert":","},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mocking Doppelganger"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirrorform"}},{"insert":" to help direct a games momentum.\nI added "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sakashima of a Thousand Faces"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror Box"}},{"insert":" to eliminate the legend rule on my side of the board to allow for crazy copy shenanigans. \n I added "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Waxen Shapethief"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sculpting Steel"}},{"insert":" for artifact copying and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Copy Enchantment"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Estrid's Invocation"}},{"insert":" for enchantment copying.\n\nWith all the basses covered your goal is to confuse your opponents and \"trick\" them into thinking your plan is one thing when its actually something they'd never see coming, the deck relies somewhat heavily on the strength of your opponent's decks and what you decide to copy, copying your opponent's board will allow for you to have direct trades when it comes to blocks, discouraging attacks on you allowing you some more time to cherry pick the best bits and pieces from each opponents deck before you get a big stompy from the green player and mirror form your board of random copies into a game winning board of 8/8s with trample or you decide to copy a legendary card a couple of times and not have them instantly sacrifice because mirror box is out.\n\nthis deck is very confusing and \"tricky\" to play against and will keep your opponents guessing What creature is what? Who is who? and just what are you gonna do next.\n"}]}
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
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.
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.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Commander
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Copycrook
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "Whenever this creature attacks, it connives." (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Rogue Shapeshifter
Mocking Doppelganger
Flash
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Creature - Shapeshifter
Naga Fleshcrafter
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.
Renew — , Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Renew — , Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Shapeshifter Snake
Omni-Changeling
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Sakashima's Protege
Flash
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Sakashima's Student
Ninjutsu (, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types.
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types.
Creature - Human Ninja
Undercover Operative
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with a shield counter on it if you control that creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Creature - Rogue Shapeshifter
Visage Bandit
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types.
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Rogue Shapeshifter
Wall of Stolen Identity
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.
Creature - Shapeshifter Wall
Clones
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Auton Soldier
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Creature Artifact - Soldier Alien
Chameleon, Master of Disguise
You may have Chameleon enter as a copy of a creature you control, except his name is Chameleon, Master of Disguise.
Mayhem (You may cast this card from your graveyard for if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Mayhem (You may cast this card from your graveyard for if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Legendary Creature - Human Shapeshifter Villain
Lazav, Familiar Stranger
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. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Lazav, Wearer of Faces
Whenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Detective
March from Velis Vel
Choose a nonbasic land type. Each land you control of that type becomes a copy of target creature you control until end of turn and gains haste until end of turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Pirated Copy
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Pirate in addition to its other types and it has "Whenever this creature or another creature with the same name deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card."
Creature - Shapeshifter Pirate
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Synth Infiltrator
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Synth artifact creature in addition to its other types.
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Synth artifact creature in addition to its other types.
Creature Artifact - Synth
Copy
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Evasion
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Land
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Invasion of Amonkhet
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, each player mills three cards, then each opponent discards a card and you draw a card. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
When this Siege enters, each player mills three cards, then each opponent discards a card and you draw a card. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Battle - Siege
Mill
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Ramp
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Identity Thief
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile another target nontoken creature. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Removal
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Who's who?\n\nThis deck was made for the October deck contest and is themed around the \"trick\" portion of the prompt.\n\nThe main idea is that almost every card either enters as or can become a copy of another target creature. While not the most overpowered deck it has a really high potential when it comes to a control style of play, the broad strategy is to use the best parts of your opponent's decks against them while also creating extra copies of those game winning pieces for yourself\n\nstarting with the commander you can have any of the Lazav variants in the zone but I feel that "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lazav, Dimir Mastermind"}},{"insert":" is the best fit as it provides a more consistent targeted transformation and stays as the copied creature until you chose to change it which can either help to target a specific strategy or to throw your opponents off the trail of your real plan.\n\nfor control you have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Identity Thief"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wall of Stolen Identity"}},{"insert":","},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mocking Doppelganger"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirrorform"}},{"insert":" to help direct a games momentum.\nI added "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sakashima of a Thousand Faces"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror Box"}},{"insert":" to eliminate the legend rule on my side of the board to allow for crazy copy shenanigans. \n I added "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Waxen Shapethief"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sculpting Steel"}},{"insert":" for artifact copying and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Copy Enchantment"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Estrid's Invocation"}},{"insert":" for enchantment copying.\n\nWith all the basses covered your goal is to confuse your opponents and \"trick\" them into thinking your plan is one thing when its actually something they'd never see coming, the deck relies somewhat heavily on the strength of your opponent's decks and what you decide to copy, copying your opponent's board will allow for you to have direct trades when it comes to blocks, discouraging attacks on you allowing you some more time to cherry pick the best bits and pieces from each opponents deck before you get a big stompy from the green player and mirror form your board of random copies into a game winning board of 8/8s with trample or you decide to copy a legendary card a couple of times and not have them instantly sacrifice because mirror box is out.\n\nthis deck is very confusing and \"tricky\" to play against and will keep your opponents guessing What creature is what? Who is who? and just what are you gonna do next.\n"}]}