Re: Zedruu the Greatest of All Time
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:16 am
I am sorry, friend. I am two months late on this realization. I was rereading all the posts that discuss Scheming Fence, as I'm working on squishing it and Mirage Mirror and Pendant of Prosperity into my deck finally, and only just noticed something here.Sefir wrote: ↑6 months agoNOOO!!!
After a long time, a wild 3-card infinite appeared in my Zedruu. This is what happens when I goldfish with the deck at 4am!!!
With Wormfang Manta, Sakashima the Impostor and Mirage Mirror in play, pay 2+2 mana in Mirror, targeting Manta and Sakashima (with that exact order), then Mirror becomes a copy of Sakashima and, while the second activation is still on the stack, pay UUCC to bounce the SakaMirror to my hand eot! Then Mirror becomes a Manta and bounces back to my hand eot, thus giving me an extra turn. Next turn I can just replay Mirror and continue the loop for infinite turns!!
I love all these 3 cards and I am extremely sad that one of these has to go.
If you activate Mirage Mirror twice, turning it first into Sakashima and second into Wormfang Manta, you will for a moment have two legendary creatures name Sakashima the Impostor, and one of them would have to be sacrificed. With only those 3 cards, you can have your extra turn bounce, but only by sacrificing the original Sakashima, so I believe you're actually safe to play those cards together. You can make it a 4-card combo by donating the original with Zedruu so that you don't control both at the same time.
I was goldfishing yesterday and found myself trying to do similar nonsense, but I was making the Mirror die on purpose. I had Cavalier of Dawn and a Sakashima the Impostor copy of it, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx to make mana off of my many white pips. Then by donating the Nykthos, I can double activate Mirage Mirror, first targeting Sakashima and then targeting Nykthos, so the second activation resolves letting me tap for mana, and then the first resolves making a Cavalier of Dawn named Sakashima that I have to sacrifice to the legend rule which triggers the ability to return an artifact or enchantment to my hand, which can be Mirage Mirror. Even in my goldfishing, I didn't manage this as a loop cause it would take 10 pips of a single color in play to go infinite and I only had 8 white pips, but it's a funny interaction regardless.