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Lich's Mirror

Artifact

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
The List
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#13486
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Lich's Mirror card art
Lich's Mirror turns a lethal damage event into a full reset — new hand, new library, life back to 20 — which makes it the cleanest insurance policy in Commander for commanders like Phage the Untouchable that would otherwise kill you on cast. Eight mana is steep, but the effect is unique: no other card replaces a loss with a fresh game state while keeping you at the table.

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Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Lich's Mirror actually lives — the multiplayer threat density means you will eat a lethal hit eventually, and the Mirror converts that moment into a full game-state reset rather than elimination. The combo angle with Phage the Untouchable is its highest-profile home, but any deck running risky life-payment effects or facing consistent combo kills gets real value from the safety net. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but virtually unplayed — those formats kill too fast and too consistently for an eight-mana artifact that does nothing until you're dead to matter. Oathbreaker is legal and mirrors the Commander dynamic at smaller scale, though the faster pace makes finding eight mana harder.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Price data isn't available in the current index, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Lich's Mirror has historically sat in the $10–20 range given its niche demand and single-printing status — it's not a card that gets cheaper over time when its use case is this specific.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.