Smoke and Mirrors

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Smokestack

Artifact

Urza's Saga

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At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.

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Spirit Mirror

Enchantment

Tempest

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At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Reflection tokens on the battlefield, create a 2/2 white Reflection creature token.

: Destroy target Reflection.

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Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 10:12 am

JMDin83

Posts: 880
Joined: 30-Jul-09

I currently have a White Stacks deck for legacy that is pretty brutal, it shuts down Dredge, Fish, ANT and Reanimator pretty well. Countertop can put a hurt on it tho, and if i go AFTER Fish and they turn 1 a vial, im in a VERY bad position lol. but anyways, i use this combo in there... pretty simple idea.

During your Upkeep, put the events on the stack in this order:
Bottom of stack - add counter to Smokestack
Middle of Stack - Sac permanents = # counters on Smokestack
Top of stack - Make a Reflection Token

White Stax is a pretty reliable and well known legacy deck and if shutting down your opponents brutally seems like super fun to you, i suggest you look it and Blue Stax up...both are expensive tho, but worth the time and money! have fun

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 10:47am

Twogunkid

Posts: 2610
Joined: 22-Jan-10

I used to have a smoke and mirrors deck, untill shields of velis vel deck took all the spirit mirrors. Still props on a classic combo

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 1:59pm

JMDin83

Posts: 880
Joined: 30-Jul-09

didnt know this was a well known combo. have never seen it on the net lol. glad at least someone else used it, lol.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 2:00pm

Twogunkid

Posts: 2610
Joined: 22-Jan-10

Its not super well known. Basically any token generator+smokestake was the core of the deck

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 4:00pm

Narcinek War-Rider

Posts: 1283
Joined: 16-Jun-11

Honestly I would proliferate Smokestack and run it in burn.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 4:12pm

Turbine

Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

How will you deal with the sacrificing of your permanents though?

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 4:54pm

Narcinek War-Rider

Posts: 1283
Joined: 16-Jun-11

Have a token engine (preferably Ant Queen) and run it Red/Green.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 5:04pm

Turbine

Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

How are you going to proliferate in Green/Red though? Contagion Engine?

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 5:11pm

PinkiePie

Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

No, you can use plaguemaw beast, volt charge, contagion clasp, or contagion engine!

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 5:55pm

JMDin83

Posts: 880
Joined: 30-Jul-09

why would you need to proliferate? just set it to 1 and its a slow grind. set it to 2, and there are PLENTY of ways to still make it work.

Mobilization
Old Elspeth
New Elspeth
Spirit Cairn
Etc..etc..etc..

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 6:24pm

Narcinek War-Rider

Posts: 1283
Joined: 16-Jun-11

@Turbine

I would also run Doubling Season with my proliferation.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 9:05pm

Turbine

Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Well, JMD pretty much summed up my argument. I didn't want to exploit the obvious weakness in your plan though, so I went for one of the more "subtle" ones.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/22/11 at 9:58pm

gericault5

Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

people play different ways, decks do different things, 1 permanent loss a turn might not matter to some decks.

i myself agree with mechanist and prefer to go with the overkill, if your deck is built around it, dealing with the extra loss is childs play, staying in mono green if you proliferate mycoloth, for example, would create fodder at the same rate that the stax eats things away. Giving you the edge

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