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Mirrodin Block Card Combos.
Includes Mirrodin, Darksteel and Fifth Dawn.

Fold into AEther is awful.  What if you opponent has a Darksteel Colossus in his hand and you counter another spell.. BOOM! He gets the 11/11 indestructible fatty in play.  That's not right.  Why not target your own spell.. say an Ornithopter.  Okay.. counter that and put your own fatty in play.  That's better.  I don't know quite why Wizards printed this.  It's too easy.  True, it costs you two cards and four mana.. but that's a big fatty on turn 3 (possibly).  That's degenerate in my opinion. 

CORRECTION: Solarion won't come into play with any counters and thus won't work well with this combo.  I have deleted the image.  Thanks Bernard for the comments.

How often do you get two cards in a combo that start with V?  This is one of the ways to abuse the Construct.  What was Wizards thinking when they print this guy?  Anyway, keep untapping the creature with the Longbow on it (fueled by say a metalworker...) and ping your opponent to death.  Add Talon of Pain for additional fun. 

Note: You can reach infinite mana and infinite damage if you throw in Metalworker or Gilded Lotus to your deck.

Don't like the Turnabout - Mesmeric Orb combo?  I know, it's kind of limiting - you can only cast the Turnabout once before its gone.  Why not go with something a little more stable and with more synergy?  Try Gurzigost from Torment.  The Orb will fuel your Gurzigost and with the 'instead deal damage to your opponent' ability, this is sure to win your game quickly.. assuming you can get him out quick enough... not that he costs a lot... The Anurid Scavenger also works with this concept.

Note: Turnabout works really well with Mesmeric Orb too as you will see in this deck here.

With the Leveler and Shared Fate cards, you can leave your opponent with no cards to use since the Leveler removes them all from the game. You do have to find another way to kill your opponent (usually the Leveler will work fine) since your opponent won't lose from not being able to draw cards from your deck. It's a replacement effect so the 'not drawings a card from your library causes your to lose' rule doesn't apply.   Thanks Mario!

If you're not a big fan of blue and prefer red, try Leveler with Beacon of Destruction.  If you have the beacon in your hand when you play Leveler, cast it.  Then shuffle it back into your library (which currently has no cards.)  Then, next turn, draw it, play it, shuffle it back into your library, and continue the cycle.  The key is to make sure the turn after Leveler comes into play that you have something to draw.

Quoted from Bennie Smith on MTG.COM: While Skullclamp is understandably getting a lot of press as one of the best cheap artifacts from Darksteel, Aether Vial is not one you should overlook. Good all on its own in a deck where many creatures have the same mana cost, there is also combo potential with Darksteel's Coretapper, letting you power out a higher-cost creature much sooner than many decks can handle.

For example, you play Aether Vial turn one. Turn two you add a counter to the Vial and play a Lightning Greaves. Turn three you add another counter to the Vial, tap it to put Coretapper into play. Equip it with Greaves and tap it to add a third counter to the Vial. Turn four add a fourth counter to the Vial, tap the Coretapper to add a fifth counter, then sacrifice it to add two more. Now you can tap the Vial to put into play your seven-mana fattie of choice, perhaps a Thorn Elemental? Equip it with the Greaves and start your three-turn clock right there on the spot.

As mentioned a thousand times throughout my site, Triskelion is one of my all time favorites cards in MTG.  I liked the original art better than what is on the Mirrodin card, but that's okay.  The Modular Mechanic is like fuel to the Triskelions free ability.  With cards like Arcbound ravager to control which of your Modular Arcbound creatures die.. just put all of it's +1/+1 counters on the skelion and turn him into a mini machine gun.  Control the board or control your opponent and win.  Whichever works best for you. 

Also, if you like counters, try Mephidross Vampire with Skelly.  With both cards in play, use one of the Triskelion counters to damage an opponent's creature.  Since you damaged a creature you get to put another +1/+1 counter on the Triskelion.  Check out this deck.

If that isn't your bag, try Forgotten Ancient. You and your opponent(s) cast spells and your Forgotten Ancient gets bigger.  During your upkeep, transfer some of those cards to the Triskelion and now you have a mini-machine gun.   Try this deck out.

Eternal Witness is a five star card for sure and an uncommon.  Thank goodness they printed All Suns' Dawn else she would have been rare.  Now we can all have stock in Fifth Dawn since she will likely run at the same price as a stupid Skullclamp.  Anyway, who doesn't like Regrowth?  Ok... with that out of the way (no one said 'me')... know Eternal Witness is even better when you recast her several times.  With the Mastermind blue guy you can.  For the cost of , you can regrow one card every turn.  Not bad for my land destruction deck. Although now I'll have to add some blue.  Oh well... it's applicable in other decks too.   If you don't like teaming up with blue, try teaming up with white.  Astral Slide works wonders with the Witness as well.

Note: Crystal Shard could replace the Mastermind... and you can use colorless mana too! Check out Crystal Witness.

I like this Beacon a lot.  It will replace a few of the Ancestral tribute cards in this Egg-Shrine-Ance deck.  With the Beacon you will be closer the win as say you have 20 life and you cast the Beacon.  Now you are at 40 and you just need 10 more life to win the game.  That assumes your opponent doesn't cast a Disenchant or Naturalize on your Test.  That's where Sterling Grove comes in handy.

Note:  Beacon of Immortality and False Cure have a killer combo effect too.  

I would expect to see this combo sprout up in a few burn and sligh decks where you can optimize the Gambit in your favor.  Wouldn't it be neat to win a tournament because you had good luck with a coin flip (with the help of the strange thumb?)

Now the trick is building a deck that really uses this Thumb to its advantage and still be able to pack a punch with burning, slashing and shocking spells. 

Note: If you don't want anyone to touch your permanents at all, add Leonin Abunas or Fountain Watch to the mix.  They will keep all of your permanents (artifacts) from being the target of spells and abilities.

Tap both the Nuisance Engine and the Staff (using 5 mana, of course), and reveal from the top of your library until you get a creature. This way you don’t lose any real creatures you have in play since the Engine generates a creature that is a token. This works especially well if your deck is a control deck and your want to grab one of your Triskelions or Broodstars for free. Great combo!

Hey, and if you don't want to pay the mana of the Engine, add Thran Turbine.  Originally meant to pay for each costs, the Turbine will buy you a pest for free each turn.  See this deck.

Here's a nasty Type 1 combo for you, as submitted by Adam Delorme.  Crucible of Worlds will be a card in the upcoming set, Fifth Dawn, and I feel it is greatly anticipated.  Anyway, with the Orb and the Crucible in play and Fastbond, of course, you can Sac a land and play it.  You pay 1 life for each land after the first you play that turn because of the Fastbond, but you gain 2 life for sacking the land to the Orb.  Not bad for an "infinite" life combo.  Thanks, Adam.  On another note, you can tap the lands before you sacrifice them for "infinite" mana too.  Adam had to remind me on this one.  Thanks again, Adam.

Oh.. after your done.. play a Serra Avatar just for fun.

I'm not to sure if this combo works as well as I'd like it to, but it is said you can target your reactor with dismantle and put however many counters on it, on it again (hence doubling your charge counters).  Since the reactor is indestructible, the first part of the spell fizzles but the second part doesn't.  However, if this combo isn't correct per rules, then just find a nice card like Arcbound Slith, Quicksilver Fountain or any artifact card with cumulative upkeep and destroy it with dismantle and move the counters to your reactor for a quicker win.   Thanks adme3tris and to Paul Ferris for the combo.  

Also, if that combo isn't quite up your alley, try good old Power Conduit or Coretapper to speed up the alternate win condition.

A 4/4 body for 5 mana isn't bad.  Add some life gain like Armadillo cloak or Loxodon Warhammer or Nourish or Stream of Life or Words of Worship or Spirit Link or whatever and suddenly your 4/4 becomes a 100/100.  I'd prefer to add him to my Angelic Chorus - Phyrexian Processor deck.  Anyway, I think the Warhammer is the best option with this guy, thing, elemental.. whatever...

Note: Clearwater Goblet also works very well with the Entity.  Check out this deck, called Life Burst!

The stylus part was submitted by Alex Velev. Avarice Totem is an interesting card with cool art too.  However, how can you use this to your advantage?  I mean, the next turn they just might pay 5 and get their creature back or maybe another creature of yours that you didn't want him or her to take.  This is where Brand comes in... it's an instant that basically says 'gain control of all permanents you own'.  You own the Totem.  You get it back.  Or, you could use something still valid in Type Two known as the Stylus.  It says 'you own' on it too. With the Stylus you have to shuffle the card into your library.. however your opponent doesn't have it anymore.  That's good.

Note: You can replace Avarice Totem with Bringer of the Red Dawn for a little more fun.

The rules for the creature type "Wall" have been changed. Although the creature type Wall still exists, it no longer has any rules meaning. Instead, all creatures that had the creature type Wall now also have the defender ability.

Steel Wall (_Mirrodin_(R) card with its new Oracle wording)
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Artifact Creature -- Wall
0/4
Defender (This creature can't attack.)