Lich's Mirror
Shards of Alara 210 • mythic
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Collector number
- 210
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Ash Wood
- Market price
- $7.60
What it does
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.
It shows not what you are but what you were.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Lich's Mirror was released in 2008 as part of the Shards of Alara expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a mythic rare artifact, it serves as a high-concept design intended to capture the flavor of a necromantic contingency plan, allowing a player to reset their life total and hand when they would otherwise lose the game. Its design reflects the complex, multi-colored thematic focus of the Alara block, which emphasized distinct shard-based identities.
The card’s illustration was crafted by Ash Wood, an artist known for a distinct, textural, and often grim aesthetic. Wood’s rendition of the mirror leans into the eerie, surrealist quality associated with lich-related artifacts in fantasy lore. Upon its release, the card was widely received by the player base as a quintessential 'build-around' artifact, favored more for its unique, dramatic effect in casual play than for its efficacy in competitive tournament settings.
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