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Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert

Battle — Siege // Creature — Zombie

(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.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#7789
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Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert card art
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert hits the battlefield as a three-mana Dimir battle that mills up to four opponents for four and copies the best creature it finds — then flips into a 3/3 Zombie that copies any creature entering under your control. The conversion cost is steep at six mana total, but commanders like Lazav, Dimir Mastermind and token triplers like Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization turn that delayed payoff into a genuine engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

11.5% of decks · synergy 0.10

Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert is a natural fit for Lazav, Dimir Mastermind — Lazav already wants opponents' creatures in graveyards, and the battle's mill-and-copy effect stocks those graveyards while handing Lazav something worth impersonating immediately.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert earns its slot: the mill-four effect scales across multiple opponents, increasing the odds of snagging a high-value creature to copy, and the Lazotep Convert backside generates free copies every time a creature enters under your control. In Pioneer and Modern it sees only fringe play — three mana for conditional value at sorcery speed is too slow for those formats without dedicated battle or graveyard synergy shells. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically open to it, but the effect doesn't come close to competing with what those formats are doing on turn three.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a dollar bin. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles tend to stay cheap, so don't expect movement unless a high-profile deck puts the Lazotep Convert backside on the map.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.