Broken Unnatural Selection Combo

[NeuroDeus]

Spirit Mirror
2WW, Enchantment, Tempest Rare
During your upkeep, if there are no Reflection tokens in play, put a Reflection token into play. Treat this token as a 2/2 white creature.
0: Destroy target Reflection.

Unnatural Selection
1U, Enchantment, Apocalypse Rare
1: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature's type becomes that type until end of turn.

Pure Reflection
2W, Enchantment, Invasion Rare
Whenever a player plays a creature spell, destroy all Reflections. Then that player puts a white Reflection creature token into play with power and toughness each equal to the converted mana cost of that spell.

Unnatural Selection + Spirit Mirror is enough... Pure Reflection is just a nice bonus.

 

[maraud234]

I use unatural selection in a bounce/discard deck along with a coastal drake(or hunting, I can't remember.) It works surprisingly good.

 

[Gerode]

Being able to pump out 2/2's for one mana apiece is very good.
Being able to kill critters for one mana apiece is very good.

I just might have to try that sometime... Mwa ha ha!

 

[Gizmo]

People were playing that in IBC:
Pure Reflection + Unnatural Selection + Fleetfoo Panther.

All your guys are reflection tokens, cast a creature.

 

[Chaos Turtle]

Actually, you can't really pump out the 2/2's. Spirit Mirror triggers at the beginning of your upkeep, so you wouldn't get a chance to change your Reflection into anything else before the Mirror notices it and decides it can't do anything.

The machine-gun trick works fine, though. Of course, the combo with Pure Reflection works also.

 

[NeuroDeus]

Just using Unnatural Selection / Spirit Mirror

you can create more than 1 2/2 Reflection tokens by changing their creature type to another before the upkeep. You pay U for 2/2, then UU (you got to change 2 token's types) for another 2/2 then UUU for another 2/2...

 

[Lotus Mox]

Too bad you can't do anything before the upkeep

(except untap of course )

 

[NeuroDeus]

i meant... at the beginning of your upkeep...legal? Spirit Mirror checks during your upkeep...

 

[Lotus Mox]

Spirit Mirror triggers at the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no Reflection, if you have one it won't trigger, and because you can't do anything before the beginning of your upkeep, you can't use Unnatural Selection on the Reflection token, before Spirit Mirror's trigger check fails.

 

[NeuroDeus]

it says during not in the beginnning...

 

[EricBess]

Spirit Mirror
2WW
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Reflection tokens in play, put a 2/2 white Reflection creature token into play.
0: Destroy target Reflection

This is the most recent Oracle text. Remember that the card was originally under the old templating, prior to the rules modification. It is a conditional trigger and will only be placed on the stack if there are no Reflection tokens in play.