I don't see too many Azami lists anymore, so I figured I'd post mine here. I play it less combo-centric and more controlling than most of the lists I've studied in the process of making it, mostly because the game turns into Archenemy very quickly and I don't really want to be all in on Mind over Matter staring down a pod's worth of hate. I know Laboratory Maniac is probably the optimal solution, but I feel like if I include him, I might as well just cut all of the other win cons and that's not where I want to be. Once, I'd lost three separate fights over MoM and had to beat people to death with the Diviner's Wand. Maybe if my meta speeds up and doesn't let me get away with Palinchron-based wins, I'll change the deck accordingly.
1 arcane denial
1 counterspell
1 cryptic command
1 commandeer
1 dissipate
1 foil
1 forbid
1 force of will
1 hinder
1 memory lapse
1 mental misstep
1 muddle the mixture
1 negate
1 pact of negation
1 remand
1 spell pierce
1 swan song
1 blue sun's zenith
1 cyclonic rift
1 echoing truth
1 into the roil
1 mystical tutor
1 time warp
LANDS
1 boseiju, who shelters all
1 buried ruin
1 homeward path
1 maze of ith
1 minamo, school at water's edge
1 nykthos, shrine to nyx
1 reliquary tower
1 riptide laboratory
1 strip mine
1 terrain generator
1 tolaria west
1 wasteland
26 island
1 martyr of frost
1 enclave cryptologist
1 jushi apprentice
1 snapcaster mage
1 stonybrook banneret
1 sigil tracer
1 Vedalken Æthermage
1 trinket mage
1 graceful adept
1 venser, shaper savant
1 glen elendra archmage
1 voidmage husher
1 archaeomancer
1 teferi, mage of zhalfir
1 phyrexian metamorph
1 memnarch
1 palinchron
1 deadeye navigator
1 ethereal usher
ARTIFACTS
1 coldsteel heart
1 everflowing chalice
1 gilded lotus
1 mana vault
1 mind stone
1 prismatic lens
1 sky diamond
1 sol ring
1 thran dynamo
1 worn powerstone
1 caged sun
1 crystal shard
1 diviner's wand
1 divining top
1 elixir of immortality
1 expedition map
1 gauntlet of power
1 vedalken shackles
1 mind over matter
COMMANDER
1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
I don't see too many Azami lists anymore, so I figured I'd post mine here. I play it less combo-centric and more controlling than most of the lists I've studied in the process of making it, mostly because the game turns into Archenemy very quickly and I don't really want to be all in on Mind over Matter staring down a pod's worth of hate. I know Laboratory Maniac is probably the optimal solution, but I feel like if I include him, I might as well just cut all of the other win cons and that's not where I want to be. Once, I'd lost three separate fights over MoM and had to beat people to death with the Diviner's Wand. Maybe if my meta speeds up and doesn't let me get away with Palinchron-based wins, I'll change the deck accordingly.
Ideas, opinions and feedback are welcome. I know I need a Sapphire Medallion and a Lighthouse Chronologist, and Crystal Shard is next up on the chopping block. Oh, and I need a Mindbreak Trap too, because people love Obliterate and at least one guy runs Hindering Touch.
A more comprehensive write-up to follow, maybe.