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Mana Tomb

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Date Posted: Sat Sep/26/09 at 8:29 pm

DyingJester
Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

Quite simple, cast channel and pay four life to cast Lich's Tomb. Now pay as much life as you want to cast anything. I want to build a deck around this using a bunch of artifacts that allow for card drawing,such as: Chromatic Star, Cromatic Sphere, Conjurers bauble, ect..., in order to cast something gamewinning. It would be fun to pull this off on turn two and attack with a 698/698 Chimeric staff. If anyone has any ideas to make a deck like this work I'd really appreciate it if you could share your ideas with me.
Date Posted: Wed Sep/30/09 at 5:10am

[deleted troll]
Posts: 0
Joined: 03-Jan-70

Your reason to build a deck? Infinite Combo? Nay, draw a card.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 11:12am

Darth_Mahruk
Posts: 109
Joined: 07-Sep-11

I am not sure that this will work, Jester. The Lich's Tomb says that when you lose life, you have to sac a permanent. By channelling, wouldn't you have to sac the tomb for the loss of life?
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 12:23pm

W@W Podcaster
Posts: 445
Joined: 01-Jun-10

You also can't pay something you don't have. If you have zero life, you can't get any more mana from Channel.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 12:42pm

Twogunkid
Posts: 2610
Joined: 22-Jan-10

I dont think paying triggers the tomb, and under out house rules where negative life is kept track of you can pay under
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 12:44pm

Darth_Mahruk
Posts: 109
Joined: 07-Sep-11

I don't think that he would have negative life, as he only used 4 to bring out the tomb. Once the tomb is out, any paying of life to Channel would result in a loss-of-life condition, triggering the sacrifice.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 1:33pm

rav514
Posts: 329
Joined: 02-Dec-10

The rule is you must have the life to pay it. You can lose life if you have zero; but you can not pay it. So you would have to have 1 life to get (1) mana from channel. Some people house rule this but it was put in place to stop combo's like this. (IMO; since like the rest of you i have no idea what wizards is thinking sometimes)
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 2:24pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

This was posted in 2009 guys. I'm sure Jester realizes by today that it doesn't work.

You can't pay life you don't have.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/08/11 at 3:00pm

rav514
Posts: 329
Joined: 02-Dec-10

lol, did't notice