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Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror

Card text:
When the effect of a DARK monster activates on the field or in the Graveyard, negate it.
  • Number: GLAS-EN070
  • Rarity: Common
  • Card Type: Trap Card / Continuous
  • Password: 99735427
Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror
The Best Anti-Meta

written by prosaic Premium Member 

What I'll be doing is something new. I'll now proceed with the usual card review(aesthetics,general description...). What I have done is a full review of a deck based on Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror with good reasons why this astounding card should be used. take the time to read it, it's worth it!
First of all I think that most decks, whether you've realised this or not, is that most decks run around monsters, be it zombies, gadgets or monarch. Of course, when I'm saying all this I mean that without dark monsters, those decks would be reduced to ashes.
Let's take zombies for a start.They can't do much with pyramid turtle, that's why the deck got a boost from Zombie Master and Ill Blud, both dark monsterswho along with Snipe Hunter gives speed and attack power.
Now let's move to gadgets. They themselves are darks, so negating their effect will give instant victory.
For monarchs, it's a different matter. As you may have found out, destiny monarchs are the fastest and most sucessful, so everyone uses the Dark DHeros now.
And why not take advantage of LaDD's second attribute?

So now comes the inevitable question. Is SIMirror worth running and will he do better than skill drain?That's what I'm here to prove.

So in this deck, I propose to run cards like giant arcs,mist archfiend and perhaps infernal dragon. To make this deck moreanti-meta, I'll throw in 2-3 End Of Anubises, the ultimate treeborn and stratos hater. To search copies of SIMirror, we need 3 magical merchants and cyber dragons are a staple, aren't they?
So up yo now, the deck looks like this:
3 Mist Archfiends
3 Magical Merchant
3 Cyber Dragon
3 Giant orc
3 Infernal dragon
2/3 End of Anubis

Now comes the really complex part.Heavy storm and MST are staples. I opted for premature burial, giving me an easy 2500Atk frog-hater beatstick. As you may have noticed,most monsters have low stats so I'll use 2 lightning vortex. Getting the wrong card at the wrong time is also a problem so I will put in 1 card destruction aver magical mallet, for I won't want to draw them again.
Now comes the interesting part. Approximately 12 of my monsters have 0Def. So much the better-so I'll stick to 3 copies of recurring nightmare, an improvement of Dark Factory of Mass Production.
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Card destruction
3 Recurring Nightmare
2 Lightning Vortex
1 Prremature burial

The trap section is a tricky one for I didn't want to maindeck pulling the rugs, so here goes:
3 Solemn Judgement
1 Forced Back
2 Dark Bribe
1 torrential tribute
1 Call Of The Haunted
1 Mirror force

So the main deck should look like this, after I've put in the apprentice engine for draw power and made some adjustments. Don't forget, this deck will never run Disk Comander.

3 Mist Archfiends
3 Magical Merchant
3 Cyber Dragon
3 Giant orc
3 Infernal dragon
2 End of Anubis
3 crystal Seer
1 Mirage Dragon
1 Marshmellon
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Card destruction
3 Recurring Nightmare
2 Lightning Vortex
1 Prremature burial
3 Solemn Judgement
1 Forced Back
2 Dark Bribe
1 torrential tribute
1 Call Of The Haunted
1 Mirror force

If you don't believe this deck has the potential,test it yourself. Various discussions are under way, so the deck I've proposed is not the best, and I'm open to any suggestions.

 

Modified on March 16, 2008 07:31 am



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prosaic 



Subject:    Posted: December 15, 2007 07:59 am Reply with quote  Report content icon

Hey guys, I did an awful error. I included 2 apprentice magicians in this deck, which wouildn't work with SIMirror. So you can consider that there are two vacant spot in the deck so please, after rating it, try to make suggestions for it. I just added spirit reaper(continuous effects are not negated) and marshmellon to fill an empty space
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Subject:    Posted: December 16, 2007 03:56 am Reply with quote  Report content icon

Pitch-Black Warwolves (Continuous Effect, that just doesn't work outside of the Battle Phase) could benefit in this deck also... Protecting your powerhouse monsters while they attack...
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seattleite 



Subject:    Posted: January 12, 2008 07:37 pm Reply with quote  Report content icon

Maybe i'm missing something, but why is pitch-black warwolf in there? Wouldnt mirage dragon, a LIGHT type be more useful?
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