Lich's Mirror.dec

[weedian]

So i was peruesing deck lists and saw Martin Bonneville's decklist

creature [1]
1 Platinum Angel
instant [12]
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Pact of Negation
1 Vampiric Tutor
sorcery [15]
1 Channel
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Fabricate
1 Imperial Seal
1 Kaervek's Torch
4 Personal Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
artifact [17]
1 Black Lotus
4 Chromatic Star
4 Lich's Mirror
1 Lotus Petal
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Sensei's Divining Top
land [15]
4 City of Brass
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Gemstone Mine
3 Tropical Island

Sideboard:
4 Xantid Swarm
3 Ancient Grudge
1 Chain of Vapor
3 Extirpate
1 Balance
2 Shattering Spree
1 Aether Spellbomb


I've been gold fishing it a bit on MWS and well it just seems bad. At first i thought i was playing it wrong trying to pop out the Mirror via Mana instead of via tinker.

But even after that it seems to just sputter.

I've only been able to playtest it about 7 games against bomberman which flat out ruined it.

Was Martin just lucky with his 1st place finish or does the deck actually have potential and I've just been playing it very wrong.

[Wagner]

I've been gold fishing it a bit on MWS and well it just seems bad. At first i thought i was playing it wrong trying to pop out the Mirror via Mana instead of via tinker.

You need to pop the Mirror with Channel, not with Mana nor Tinker.

[Tha Gunslinga]

1.  Find Channel.
2.  Play Channel.  Use Pact for backup.
3.  Play Mirror.  Pay the rest of your life.
4.  Start blowing through your deck until you find a kill.

[weedian]

I see, its been so long since i've read channel I've been misplayinig the card.

I was searching through after i "died" to play it again.

[Tobi]

Martin wrote a small primer about this deck:
http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=37247.0

Helps when trying to play this deck.