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Breaking the Mirror
 
 
 
 
Written by Dong Yun Kim
 

When people hear, Whats the best card in Darksteel?, some might shout, Darksteel Colossus! which is immediately interrupted by someone screaming Leonin Shikari and then the entire room will most likely be erupting with argument.

 

But is there Panoptic Mirror in any of them? No, I wouldn't think so (fine! So maybe there might be!) and this time, we'll be breaking the Mirror! (Not with our hands! Ok?)

 

Broken Mirror Snr. G.U.R


 

Land

Creature Spells

Other Spells

4 Mirrodins Core

4 Tree of Tales

4 Seat of the Synod

4 Great Furnace

2 Island

2 Mountain

4 Raven Guild Master

4 Crafty Pathmage

4 Spiketail Hatchling

4 Disruptive Pitmage

4 Savage Beating

4 Spellbinder

4 Deconstruct

4 Fabricate

4 Panoptic Mirror

24 lands

16 Creatures

20 Other Spells

 

As you can see, the entire point of this deck is to pull out either Spellbinder or Panoptic Mirror. After that, its as easy as saying Game Set! (not really, but still,).

Savage Beating and Raven Guild Master can be a complete insanity. Raven Guild Master will probably on top of their kill-it-NOW list after it gets Double Strike and unblockable. This deck being slower than I would've liked, a bit of control sounded good. Besides, Unblockable/flying + Spellbinder + Savage Beating = Game : provided that you chose to have another Combat phase every time for Savage Beating.

 

Now, lets get to the star of the show; the Panoptic Mirror. Imprint Savage Beating on it, and you can choose to give all youre creatures Double Strike in every one of your turns, or give yourself extra Combat phases. Deconstruct can be deadly; prize of extra GGG every turn for destroying an artifact (and laughing at your opponent). Sadly, there is not many ways of using this mana, but Im quite sure you could figure it out Darksteel Colossus, Krosan Cloudscraper, or even Explosive Vegetation. Fabricate is there to speed things up (sort of, anyway).

 

Youre best bet in this deck is to imprint Savage Beating in order to break Mirror or Binder, but this is a bit too slow for weenies and soldiers (as I painstakingly experienced) who could kill you before you could put down either one of the imprinters. So here it is, the amazing, dazzling, and incredibly stupidly named deck; the Broken Mirror Jr.!

 

Broken Mirror Jr. R.U.W

Lands

Creature Spells

Other Spells

4 Mirrodins Core

4 Great Furnace

4 Seat of the Synod

4 Ancient Den

4 Island

 

4 Frogmite

4 Raven Guild Master

3 Crafty Pathmage

 

4 Thoughtcast

4 Panoptic Mirror

4 Savage Beating

4 Isochron Scepter

4 Raise the Alarm

2 Glorious Anthem

3 Mana Leak / Counterspell

24

11 Creatures

25 Other Spells

 

Again, Panoptic Mirror is the key to the imaginary door (my imaginary friend Bob is on the other side joking!) which provided that youre opponent doesn't like playing Platinum Angel should make you win. Most of them are pretty straight forward, imprint and abuse, or just abuse if dont have any imprints. Use Counterspell or Raise the Alarm (this is soooo annoying) imprinted on Isochron Scepter (otherwise its pointless) and repetitively mill youre opponents deck down (as abused in Broken Mirror Snr.) until they scream; in which case you'll pause to laugh and then continue sending your opponent into thoughtless misery.

 

If, in any case, youre thinking of muscling out with either decks, dont even try. Raven Guild Master will be stepped on, ripped apart, chewed, spat out, and then trampled on until it resembles bit of a rag; which is obviously not wanted (unless, of course, youre a crazy psychopath just wanting destruction and death). And same goes for Frogmite. Theyre there to help you keep alive for a little while, not to see if they have a chance against 13/13 (although it would be pretty fun! Kamikaze Frogs!). Raven Guild Master, which should be around #10 of their kill-kill!-kill! List, should jump to #2 provided that you become an excruciating pain in the butt (#1 being You, obviously).

 

Well, Thats it for me today. Till Next time!

 

- Dong Yun Kim, (Have you noticed that brackets are my thoughts?)

 

 
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