How it works
Prerequisites
- An opponent is about to lose the game due to lethal infect and/or commander damage.
Steps
- 1When an opponent is about to lose the game due to lethal infect and/or commander damage, before damage is dealt, activate Zedruu by paying , giving the opponent about to lose the game control of Lich's Mirror.
- 2When the opponent would lose the game, Lich's Mirror causes them to shuffle their hand, graveyard, and all permanents they own into their library, draw seven cards, and set their lifetotal to twenty.
- 3Because they don't own Lich's Mirror, they retain control of it, and because infect/commander damage is not reset, they will then attempt to lose the game as a state-based action.
- 4This creates a mandatory infinite loop, which ends the game in a draw.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Spicy tier?
Spellbook classifies this as Spicy — not for these brackets.