#lich's mirror

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Lich's Mirror

It shows not what you are but what you were.

Artist: Ash Wood TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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It shows not what you are but what you were.

-Lich’s Mirror

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Easily one of the most underrated and creepy pieces of Magic art Lich's Mirror by Ash Wood

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Topi’s Daily Card #865:  Lich’s Mirror

Shards of Alara block as the first block to have the Mythic Rare, and Lich’s Mirror was one of those cards that has a mythic-like effect, but didn’t see any play due to it’s huge downside:  you were starting over and your opponent wasn’t.  you’d be trying to get a foothold while your opponent is bearing down on you.  The meanest thing you can do with this card though, is give it to someone else.  If you’re able to kill them, they instead restart the game, still in control of the Lich’s Mirror.  And if you kill them with a secondary win condition like poison or commander damage, they’ll restart the game, draw cards, and lose again due to the state based action, and rinse and repeat until someone breaks the loop by destroying the mirror or the game ends in a draw.  It may not be the easiest way of ending the game, but it sure can be satisfying.

[siljewolfe]

beautiful card

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[brewingbad]

I love mental magic. In my head is ongoing playtesting and combo interactions, a constant swirl of search for game breaking interactions and little known synergies. Akin to my own heart a fellow TappedOut.net brewer Logician, has devised a scenario in which the game can never end. There is only one loser, due to concession, but the rest of the game would continue on forever until the players conceded. This is not just a simple infinite loop, but a constant ever present loophole in the rules that allows a multiplayer game to stretch off into infinity. This thought exercise is probably the greatest waste of time I have ever experienced in all of my years playing MTG.

Please check out his primer on Trolling with Lich’s Mirror and enjoy the thought exercise.

[magicjudge]

Kind of a follow up to the earlier Lich's Mirror question. How does the game end in a draw? I don't quite understand the ruling here.

If you have another player’s Mirror, the game will try to make you lose because of poison counters, but you’ll do Lich’s Mirror’s effect instead. Then you’ll still have 10 poison counters and Lich’s Mirror and the game will make you try to lose again, but again it’s replaced with Lich’s Mirror’s effect. Rinse and repeat.

The game is in an unbreakable loop and thus ends in a draw.