Lazav, the Multifarious

Most clone effects copy what is on the battlefield; this one mines the graveyard instead, and that single redirection changes everything about how it is built and played. The activated ability turns a 1/3 body into whatever creature card you have already milled, and the cost reads as a tax but functions as a filter: it lets you choose which threat to become based on how much mana you have open, then become a different one next turn. The surveil on entry is not decoration; it is the front half of the engine, fueling the graveyard the copy ability needs to do anything. What separates the card from a body-snatching clone is permanence with optionality: the copied creature stays legendary, stays named Lazav, and crucially keeps the copy ability, so a single creature can become a sequence of threats over a game without ever leaving play to a targeted answer aimed at the type it currently wears. The identity-protection wrinkle matters too: an opponent who reads the board and lines up removal can watch you reconfigure into something that dodges it, all at instant speed. Its ceiling is set entirely by what ends up in the yard, its floor a defensible early blocker that filters your draws. The lineage runs through every clone that wanted to be more than a one-time mirror: here the graveyard is the target, and the copy is a shape you can keep changing rather than a snapshot you took once.