Is it fun with multiples or is your library a face-down exiled card? Haunting Echoes looks like the best bet to me.
Oleander
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Such an AWFUL card that will have about as much play time as the dreaded Lich's Mirror. Those 7 cards you return had better be some very impressive cards, and I cannot see this getting much use except in very specified situations where your opponent is insane with the exiling.
Vinifera7
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(10 votes)
Mirror of Fail.
Dragek
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(8 votes)
This looks like it could become really fun with multiples and a way to exile your own graveyard
To the nay sayers, you can easily build around these in a casual deck, as an easy way to repeatably put 7 cards you wnat as the top of your deck, so long as you have mutliples and a repeatable exile source
Tennanja
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is awesome- Combine with Relic of Progenitus and Nature's spiral and you can have the seven cards that you want from your deck in the order that you want. It is so broken and comepletely ruins the game because you can easily path your own and get it out early and start to get your best cards right away. Go ahead and keep firing off lightning bolts because you can keep stacking them up, until you kill your enemy.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(7 votes)
So Sucky
TroglodyteJB
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
This is pretty much only playable with Relic of Progenitus. Use Relic to RFG anything you want, and then when you sac the Mirror to use it's ability, put Relic's tap ability on top of it in the stack. Then grab Mirror itself as one of your 7 cards, and you can tutor yourself any 7 cards that were in your library when you first activated it. I sincerely doubt it's tournament playable, but it's the single best Johnny card I've ever seen. Great for casual, great for convoluted combos, weaker in aggressive play. It asks the question: if you could have a 7 card deck and 5+ mana, which 7 cards would you choose?
I will say this: the comparison to Lich's Mirror is unfair. You still have all your permanents in play, as well as your hand. MUCH better than Lich's Mirror.
cyfeariul
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Slow down guys, I think you dont understand the card. I could be wrong but I believe that this counts your sideboard as "exiled" as exiled is the new term for "removed from game". Its like the old wish cards like Cunning Wish and such so it isnt that bad, if you have your combo in your sideboard it can let you nail it perfectly every time if your opponent doesnt disrupt it. Heck, in casual play with friends you could argue that this lets you get any seven cards from your entire collection!
New players read "exile my library? but then I lose!!" and stop reading. People who like combo decks read instead: "so if I exile the right cards, I can reduce my library to exactly the right cards in the right order I need to play my combo and win".
Or you can use it to replay cards that get exiled for some reason. Not to mention that exiling most of your library gives cards some power, that somehow interact with exiled cards.
Not saying this card is incredible or anything, but it could be part of some casual combo deck.
jeff-heikkinen
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Looks to me like a combo tutor in search of a combo. Should the right cards come along, this could be extraordinarily powerful. But more likely, the setup required will keep this out of competitive Constructed.
@cyfeariul; You've got things almost exactly backwards. Your sideboard is *not* considered exiled. (It was never considered to be "removed from the game" either; it was considered *outside* the game, which wasn't the same thing.) And the change here is that Exiled things are *not* considered to be outside the game, whereas RFGed things were.
WolfPackXV
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Does a card with imprint forget the exiled card if the exiled card is returned to play?
Owls_and_More_Owls
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If you can manage to build a deck specifically with this card in mind, it's not that bad.
That being said, We got two of these in a draft and they were passed to the last pick every single time. Along with Nightmare, curiously. No one was playing black.
nekosan
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
What about playing this card and choose just 1 card?...Beacon of tomorrows!!! Endless playing, if you can't do enough damage to kill somebody, ur opponents, after the first 3hours you play alone, will surely give up! :P
Just through it would be interesting... say you get a hand of six GREAT cards, but no lands, witha Serum Powder... and you had this mirror in your deck. Well, late game, when you just need those six cards to win, you can fetch them exactly.
Janky? Probably. But oh so fun if you pull it off.
-Dangimill-
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Flashback.
Megrimage
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
hmm.. something is making me think of doomsday and yawgmoth's will. you can get this oout on turn 1 with mana vault, mana crypt, and lotus petal... not that it's likely but you know... it is possible.
it is definately interesting. I am sure this would see some sort of tourny play if it was only 3 mana to cast.
i like the "exiled face up" haha... i guess they dont want people using this with memory jar .. hahaha.
All this talk about playing Mirror of Fate with this combo and that combo... Has anyone ever actually tried to play a game with this card? Has anyone EVER won a game with card?
Gilgiga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Reduce your entire library to lands, time warps, and another mirror, with Jace and Relic of Prog in play.
Once you hit 12 lands your opponent never gets another turn again.
Hituro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@jeff-heikkinen : Actually Exiled is the new term for RFG. So Exiled is RFG. They changed some of the rules for all of magic when this set was released. Pretty much just changed some of the termanology like changing RFG to Exile, and "when x enters play" to "when x enters the battlefield".
bigben013
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
anyone else think someone might make a wacky deck with the new jace and this?
DingusSomething
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why would you use this card it tells you to choose seven exiled cards and then put them back on top of an exiled library???
Fictionarious
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(9 votes)
One day, I will break this card. I swear it.
Alicanto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card can be really good. I just read the article about Selective Memory, and made a deck around it. It works well, except I have one question; if you have no cards in your library, play a leveler , would you still "exile" your library, or would that not work? My combo was what the author Noel deCordova said: play Selective Memory (worldwake) with Skyward Prophets and reduce your library to lands, while 4 Mirror of Fates are on the field, sacrifice them to get however many cards you need, up to 28, and play from there.
ArtBell
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This bad boy's gonna get broken, there's no doubt in my mind.
Kungfu1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Path to Exile your own guys if they're bout to get removed, and increase your mana curve. Good combo with this. This card ONLY works in combo decks, however seeing it perform in standard once rise of eldrazi hits should be interesting
j3ckyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So yeah, first time I saw this card I was determined to use it. Luckily worldwake just brought a little gem called Selective Memory
Use those two together and you can have fun utterly destroying your opponent if you put the right combo in with it.
ohthecommotion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can't believe no one has posted this yet:
Mirror of Fate one turn, then Leveler the next turn. At the end of your opponent's turn, crack the Mirror, and set up the following:
Enigma Sphinx > Enlisted Wurm > Bituminous Blast > Stormcaller's Boon > Demonic Dread > Emblem of the Warmind (or Need For Speed). 20 power worth of hasty fliers, and two blockers taken care of.
And if that doesn't work, the last card in your deck is obviously Beacon of Tomorrows!
xemuz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
might work with the Arc Slogger as a finisher and getting 7 cards inyour library in case you need something more
Meliagaunt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I dunno if it's been said but this combos well with Selective Memory
If you play this over Parallel Thoughts, you are just trying to prove something. Then again, I usually win before exhausting the cards from PT, so this isn't so bad.
bram-s-wallace
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The easiest combo I see with this is getting getting two on the battlefield, then cracking the first one to exile your library. After that you immediately crack the second one and choose what cards you want to put back. It's better than the selective memory combo because if needed you can put lands back in.
Tezz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
selective memory
IceRapture
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ok, I just found a great use for this, play this after activating Myr Incubator.
What's that you say, Mirror of Fate is crap? Well let's just see about that, I activate Myr Incubator and get 50 myr tokens, Then I use the Mirror of Fate and select my best creatures that I exiled with the Incubator, and stack my deck with Masters of Etherium and Loxodon Warhammers (or whatever combo pieces you can think of).
I tested it and it is really fun to do this, especially when you can bring the mirror back with stuff like skeleton shard which you can also choose as one of the 7 stacked cards..
Ogrillion
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Selective Memory curves into this so very beautifully. I'm amazed it hasn't been broken. Say, when RoE hits, you could turn this, Selective Memory, a Djinn of Wishes, some counters and Emrakul into something absolutely ridiculous :-/
getz19
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Combos with Arc Slogger
Omenchild
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
shouldn't have put this in M10, nobody looks into that set looking for combo cards. Plus, this card is really a worse version of Doomsday in most situations. Not bad with doomsday however.
Phantomrider
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How Mirror Of Fate and Then Use Sadistic Sacrament With Selective Memory. You Exile Three Land Cards With Sadistic Sacrament On Yourself And Use A Selective Memory To Exile Your Best Creatures And Others Spells You Want Then Get Mirror Of Fate.
theomenvoodoo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hellcarver demon has a new best friend :D
kitsunewarlock
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good with Brighthearth Rings (choose 0 the first resolution; choose any 7 the second time.)
Also great with Lich's Mirror itself. Run Relic or Ravenous Trap or something similiar and make sure you only have 7 cards out. Use the mirror and choose 0 cards. Kill yourself and redraw lich's mirror...play it again with something like Lion's Eye Diamond or Channel (used before the mirror went off, of course). Then kill yourself again (using your favorite method) and do it all over again (hopefully with 1 more mana than when you started the combo so you can end it with your favorite X spell).
stack your 7 cards with a time warp, another mirror, 4 hellkites, and put the bokuja bog on the bottom. cast the top six for free... deal 20 damage / take an extra turn... draw the bog... repeat.
The finisher could really be anything since you have infinite turns (I'm sure there are some that are way better than this example). Just better stack the rest of the deck with counter spells or there is no way to last long enough to start the engine.
Sironos
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Wow, gotta be on the top 10 of biggest drawbacks ever! It's a modified Jace the mind sculptor ultimate on yourself! Very dangerous but can also be very rewarding if your opponent doesn't have the necessary countermeassures ready.
catowner
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
possible combo with isleback spawn?
Kamidii
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I love the flavor text, and if your library is already gone, then the card is pretty good.
DacenOctavio
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
ohthecommotion says:
"Part of my personal favorite combo. Play Mirror of Fate, and the next turn, play Leveler. At the end of your opponent's turn, crack the mirror, and set up the amazing cascade combo:
So you have 20 power of fliers, and took out two blockers. Swing for the win!"
That would totally suck to get hit by. 20 damage in the air, and it's not even from a Marit Lage creature token.
EDIT: Due to the way Cascade works, Burst of Speed would be on top of the stack if you chose to play it, resolving, and not effecting the sphinx or the wurm because they hadn't even resolved yet. You'd have to maybe draw Burst of Speed in the same turn in order for it to work. For that, I recommend Sensei's Divining Top.
roguepariah
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Play with nihil spellbomb. Respond to the mirrors ability by activating the spellbomb. This exiles the mirror before its ability resolves, allowing you to put the mirror (and the spellbomb) back on top of the library with its own ability. If your going with beacon of tomorrows for infinite turns, throw in Jace's erasure to mill your opponent out.
As long as you're using it in casual, there's something very important that seems to be overlooked here.
The mirror doesn't exile itself, it's merely sacrificed. Just make sure one of the seven is Argivian Restoration, or anything similar.
You could possibly use it as a counter measure against a dedicated mill deck. When your whole deck is in the graveyard, crack a Relic of Progenetus, followed by the Mirror with the Restoration on top.
Other uses involve giving it to someone, and then Mindslaver-ing them into using it recklessly.
Ideatog
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(7 votes)
Imprint it on Prototype Portal.The first time, it exiles your whole library. The second time, copied by the portal, can choose from anything that was in your library. Combine with Teferi's Puzzle Box to draw most/ all of the new cards. Result: search your library for a new hand every turn.
An interesting, if slow, combo you could add to an artifact-centered deck.
Hayw00d0909
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I can't figure out why this card was included into the core set - let alone with a rare status. It eludes to some very abusive utility, but I can't think of any good reason to include this in a deck worthy of anything more than the kitchen table. The only use I could see this ever providing, would be either sideboarded against an opponent who exiles the crap out of all of your important permanents, or, main decked with a very peculiar and specific set-up to mastermind the perfect seven card library and execute the mother of all combo plays. Interesting idea on paper, but useful?
Just an idea off the top of my head, but would this have been to much to ask?, Sacrifice Mirror of Fate: Exile up to seven cards from your library face-up, then exile the rest from the game face down. Return the face-up exiled cards to your library in any order.
To me, that would have actually made sense and been worth all the trouble of exiling the bulk of my cards. Instead, I'll need to go to extraordinary lengths to exile my "golden" cards therein creating the world's most diabolic Johnny deck to ever make any real use of it.
The flavor, art, and overall mechanic is very obscure and flavorful, which I respect, but this card has one of the most complex and situational designs I've ever seen. I'm not trying to argue whether you think this is playable or unplayable, I'm just trying to understand why this needed to be included into the core set. Did they believe this would become a truly sought after staple since it was included as a rare into the core set of the game? Did they simply want a mysterious novelty card that could someday be found as the missing piece to an important deck archetype?
This is going to be fun! Exiling your library is kinda like Suicide Blue :D
MightySqueeth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Fictionarius You probably shouldn't break a mirror. It's bad luck
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Way too many hoops to jump through. You might want to consider Doomsday instead.
NARFNra
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Maybe you can use it to maximize the power you get from Arc-Slogger? I mean, competitively you'd just use that mana to beat the crap out of them next turn, but if you're running low you can use this to pull back a few lightning bolts for the finisher.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fun to combo with Doomsday, allowing you to rig up to 12 cards (or 11 if one of these cards rigs for the other) of your choosing! Selective Memory obviously lets you tailor the situation as well, while Misthollow Griffin will be playable from exile when you remove your library. Paradigm Shift is a quick and dirty way to fill up your exile zone, while Riftsweeper can be a nice include to rescue an exile card you need after cracking this.
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To the nay sayers, you can easily build around these in a casual deck, as an easy way to repeatably put 7 cards you wnat as the top of your deck, so long as you have mutliples and a repeatable exile source
I will say this: the comparison to Lich's Mirror is unfair. You still have all your permanents in play, as well as your hand. MUCH better than Lich's Mirror.
New players read "exile my library? but then I lose!!" and stop reading. People who like combo decks read instead: "so if I exile the right cards, I can reduce my library to exactly the right cards in the right order I need to play my combo and win".
Or you can use it to replay cards that get exiled for some reason. Not to mention that exiling most of your library gives cards some power, that somehow interact with exiled cards.
Not saying this card is incredible or anything, but it could be part of some casual combo deck.
@cyfeariul; You've got things almost exactly backwards. Your sideboard is *not* considered exiled. (It was never considered to be "removed from the game" either; it was considered *outside* the game, which wasn't the same thing.) And the change here is that Exiled things are *not* considered to be outside the game, whereas RFGed things were.
That being said, We got two of these in a draft and they were passed to the last pick every single time. Along with Nightmare, curiously. No one was playing black.
Just through it would be interesting... say you get a hand of six GREAT cards, but no lands, witha Serum Powder... and you had this mirror in your deck. Well, late game, when you just need those six cards to win, you can fetch them exactly.
Janky? Probably. But oh so fun if you pull it off.
it is definately interesting. I am sure this would see some sort of tourny play if it was only 3 mana to cast.
i like the "exiled face up" haha... i guess they dont want people using this with memory jar .. hahaha.
Once you hit 12 lands your opponent never gets another turn again.
I swear it.
Use those two together and you can have fun utterly destroying your opponent if you put the right combo in with it.
Mirror of Fate one turn, then Leveler the next turn. At the end of your opponent's turn, crack the Mirror, and set up the following:
Enigma Sphinx > Enlisted Wurm > Bituminous Blast > Stormcaller's Boon > Demonic Dread > Emblem of the Warmind (or Need For Speed). 20 power worth of hasty fliers, and two blockers taken care of.
And if that doesn't work, the last card in your deck is obviously Beacon of Tomorrows!
What's that you say, Mirror of Fate is crap? Well let's just see about that, I activate Myr Incubator and get 50 myr tokens, Then I use the Mirror of Fate and select my best creatures that I exiled with the Incubator, and stack my deck with Masters of Etherium and Loxodon Warhammers (or whatever combo pieces you can think of).
I tested it and it is really fun to do this, especially when you can bring the mirror back with stuff like skeleton shard which you can also choose as one of the 7 stacked cards..
Also great with Lich's Mirror itself. Run Relic or Ravenous Trap or something similiar and make sure you only have 7 cards out. Use the mirror and choose 0 cards. Kill yourself and redraw lich's mirror...play it again with something like Lion's Eye Diamond or Channel (used before the mirror went off, of course). Then kill yourself again (using your favorite method) and do it all over again (hopefully with 1 more mana than when you started the combo so you can end it with your favorite X spell).
Mirror-Mirror...
I haven't tested it, but why has no one mentioned Hellcarver Demon ?
Imagine this combo currently in T2: Selective Memory , Bokuja Bog , Time Warp , and any finisher... how about Bogardan Hellkite or Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
stack your 7 cards with a time warp, another mirror, 4 hellkites, and put the bokuja bog on the bottom. cast the top six for free... deal 20 damage / take an extra turn... draw the bog... repeat.
The finisher could really be anything since you have infinite turns (I'm sure there are some that are way better than this example). Just better stack the rest of the deck with counter spells or there is no way to last long enough to start the engine.
"Part of my personal favorite combo. Play Mirror of Fate, and the next turn, play Leveler. At the end of your opponent's turn, crack the mirror, and set up the amazing cascade combo:
Enigma Sphinx, Enlisted Wurm, Bituminous Blast, Stormcaller's Boon, Demonic Dread, Burst of Speed.
So you have 20 power of fliers, and took out two blockers. Swing for the win!"
That would totally suck to get hit by. 20 damage in the air, and it's not even from a Marit Lage creature token.
EDIT: Due to the way Cascade works, Burst of Speed would be on top of the stack if you chose to play it, resolving, and not effecting the sphinx or the wurm because they hadn't even resolved yet. You'd have to maybe draw Burst of Speed in the same turn in order for it to work. For that, I recommend Sensei's Divining Top.
If your going with beacon of tomorrows for infinite turns, throw in Jace's erasure to mill your opponent out.
The mirror doesn't exile itself, it's merely sacrificed. Just make sure one of the seven is Argivian Restoration, or anything similar.
You could possibly use it as a counter measure against a dedicated mill deck. When your whole deck is in the graveyard, crack a Relic of Progenetus, followed by the Mirror with the Restoration on top.
Other uses involve giving it to someone, and then Mindslaver-ing them into using it recklessly.
An interesting, if slow, combo you could add to an artifact-centered deck.
Just an idea off the top of my head, but would this have been to much to ask?
To me, that would have actually made sense and been worth all the trouble of exiling the bulk of my cards. Instead, I'll need to go to extraordinary lengths to exile my "golden" cards therein creating the world's most diabolic Johnny deck to ever make any real use of it.
The flavor, art, and overall mechanic is very obscure and flavorful, which I respect, but this card has one of the most complex and situational designs I've ever seen. I'm not trying to argue whether you think this is playable or unplayable, I'm just trying to understand why this needed to be included into the core set. Did they believe this would become a truly sought after staple since it was included as a rare into the core set of the game? Did they simply want a mysterious novelty card that could someday be found as the missing piece to an important deck archetype?
I'm just confused, thats all.
This is going to be fun! Exiling your library is kinda like Suicide Blue :D
You probably shouldn't break a mirror. It's bad luck
Crack this open in response to your own Worldfire, grabbing Mountain, land, land, Lobber Crew, and three other cards.