Mirrorweave

Hybrid Cards Impact

Hybrid hurts commander in two ways. First, hybrid seems to lend itself to lots of strong bends and breaks. Spitting Image is not a green card, Mirrormade is not a white care, and *the new Kiora is not a blue card*. Second, one of the best things about commander is deck diversity. It's a way to escape the tyranny of "the best card that does X". Deckbuilding restrictions are key to that, and anything that relaxes those restrictions hurts the format.

The color breaking quality of hybrid is greatly overstated. Let me use your examples. Spitting Image is a bend and not even a horribly big one. If it was “creature you control” it’s not even a bend. Green is number two at cloning, it just usually copies it’s own stuff. Mirrorweave (that’s what I assume you mean, Mirrormade is monoblue) is a bend for white but far from a break. White making everything the same is a theme white has done on other cards.The new Kiora (the blue/green) is not even a bend. Yes, blue doesn’t tend to get its card draw off large creatures, but it’s king of card draw, it could if it wanted to. That’s the space hybrid plays in where you find overlap where one color could do something because it goes broader, but could be narrower to overlap.I assume you picked what you thought were three egregious examples and none of them are even serious bends, let alone breaks. Which brings me back to my point, the color pie breaking-ness of hybrid is way overstated. As to your second point, yes restrictions are a fun part of the deck restrictions, but restrictions for the sake of restrictions aren’t the point. You could add a rule that you could only have three card types in your deck. That would restrict things more, but that doesn’t necessarily make the format better.

Bend / Break Blue Card Draw Card Types Card Types Color Pie Colors Commander Creatures Escape Green Hybrid Mirrormade Mirrorweave Rules Spitting Image White

Mirrorweave Card Questions

Mark, you mentioned Mirrorweave and it intrigues me. Shouldn't it be printed as a gold White-Blue card? Or White can, as a strong bend, make all creatures copies of another one?

We decided it was a bit of a bend, but acceptable as a white/blue hybrid. Hybrid design requires bends at times. Making everyone the same had a white feel to it.

Azorius (W/U) Bend / Break Blue Card Printing Creatures Hybrid Mirrorweave White

Blue/White Clone Variant

Hi mark! We’ve seen a multicolor clone variant in every blue color pair except blue/white. If or when, a white/blue clone variant?

No love for Mirrorweave? I’m sure we’ll do a more straight forward one some day.

Azorius (W/U) Blue Colors If/When Mirrorweave White

Mirrorweave Augment Outcome

If I use Mirrorweave to make all creatures a copy of a host creature, and I augment a creature that WON'T be a host when the mirrorweave copy effect ends, what happens to the mirrorweave copy effect falls off at end of turn?

The Augment will pop off and state based effects will put it into your graveyard.

Creatures Mirrorweave The Graveyard

Conceding Rules

Putting stop to this silly combo if it hasn’t been mentioned already. Can Franky Peanuts stop your opponent from conceding in order for you to turn their cards into Blacker Lotus with Mirrorweave, then Mindslaver them and rip up their cards.

Franky Peanuts cannot stop a player from conceding. No card can stop a player from conceding.

Blacker Lotus Mindslaver Mirrorweave

Lorwyn Appreciation

Gah, I'm still not able to reply to posts. But I have to say, I'm definitely one of the weirdos who really enjoyed Lorwyn. I don't think I drafted it, but I did play and enjoy Mirrorweave Kithkin in Constructed. Sounds like the MtG Lorwyn fans need to start a support group or something. If Magic returned to Lorwyn I would pretty much just throw my wallet at it.

Note when I say the creative of some world wasn’t popular, I’m talking about the majority opinion. Many people adored Lorwyn.

Appreciation Constructed Keyword Actions Kithkin Lorwyn Mirrorweave

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