@ reddaemon,
Your life total becomes 20, so it's not gaining life, so you won't have them lose life.
Anyway, use this with Arc Blade and other suspend cards to buy yourself some time if you're going to lose. Not a card to build a deck around, but definitely are card that could help phasing/suspend decks.
Posted By:
OpenSeasonNoobs
(6/1/2010 9:33:36 PM)
@OpenSeasonNoobs:
check the rulings for the card. When your life total becomes something else, you either lose or gain the life needed to get there. So whatever reddaemon's plan was, it can still work.
Posted By:
Master-Crimson
(6/14/2010 1:14:41 AM)
I used to think this card was amazing. Then I played with it. It's not very good at all.
I cast it, and it ended up activating, and I lost two turns later. Your opponent ends up with everything while you have nothing. Loss prevention is useless if you're practically guaranteed to lose anyway.
It is still extremely flavorful, and the art is amazing. Shame it was such a disappointment.
Posted By:
Laguz
(7/7/2010 4:51:31 PM)
How about using it to let you survive your own Deathcloud?
Posted By:
PhyrexianLobbiest
(7/26/2010 8:22:15 PM)
Here's how to combo it in a contrived way (if you pull it off, you win three internets):
a. Have Lich's Mirror and a Lich or Nefarious Lich in play (woo, flavor!).
b. Have an Oblivion Ring played on your own Barren Glory.
c. Have One with Nothing and Disenchant in your hand.
Here's how it goes:
1. Play One with Nothing before the end of your opponent's turn.
2. Respond to that by Disenchanting your own Lich.
Lich leaves play, making you lose the game. The Lich's Mirror's effect is triggered and resolves, reshuffling everything in (the Oblivion Ring, having left play, has its second ability go on the stack), drawing you 7 cards and gaining you 20 life (from 0 with Lich). Barren Glory appears, then One with Nothing finally resolves. You win by your upkeep!
Posted By:
nammertime
(8/1/2010 9:56:18 PM)
I was so annoyed to get this as my first mythic rare... I still haven't ever used it. Unless your opponent is at about 5 life or has no lands in play, you're just screwed again, and if the former is the case, wouldn't a simple, common lava axe be better? Stick with your Platinum Angel.
Posted By:
KikiJikiTiki
(8/11/2010 9:19:20 AM)
platinum angel won't save you from a Hive-minded Hurricane or Windfall in multiplayer like this will.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(9/28/2010 11:03:07 PM)
Actually, there's some vintage player who figured out how to combo with lich's mirror.
Use Channel to pay for lich's mirror, and then kill yourself by draining the rest of your life. Shuffle up, draw a new hand, draw more mana from the Channel and then finish off your opponent with a fireball, backed up with a couple of Force of wills.
The rest of the deck is mostly tutors to find the combo pieces (especially channel, since it's restricted), ways to protect itself, and stuff that fixes mana (like Chromatic star).
Also, the mana base is made up almost entirely of 5-color lands.
for those interested in checking it out, here's the link: http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=29152
Posted By:
exterion
(9/29/2010 2:01:27 AM)
In response to Lich's Mirror's trigger, use some effect to flash a Sway of the Stars. Everyone resets to nothing and 7 life, you reset to nothing and 20 life!
Posted By:
niceguygreensboro
(10/4/2010 1:06:21 PM)
realm razor. that way you at least keep your lands...you gotta hope you can recover with the hand you get, though. also, another reason sanguine bond wouldnt work (besides the stack) is because you arent gaining life, your life total is changing.
Posted By:
thedeathscythe
(10/6/2010 10:32:33 PM)