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http://fivewithflores.com/2008/11/a-reflecting-pool-control-mirror/ Wherein Michael J. Flores further discusses the one thing that matters most in the Reflecting Pool Control mirror match and displays a long back-and-forth battle between competing Stage Three strategies (possible spoiler: the one from Shards of Alara wins).

Deck lists and further discussion on the blog:
http://fivewithflores.com/2008/11/a-reflecting-pool-control-mirror/

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  • hey michael are you filipino, nice nice

    we support you

    FNM players of robinson's Galleria yuhooo!!!

  • Yes I am! Thanks for the support :)

  • This was very very good magic, i new that his play on your esper charm was bad, and for him not to prepare for the cruel ult was just lame, even going as far as to tap out for sowers!? for the life of me i cant see how at all that is good magic on his part, i would have bluffed double negate, 4th cryptic, something that could stop the cruel from ruining my day. keep up the good work mike :) hope to see some best of 3 matches with SB action too.

  • I think the Cryptic Command on my Esper Charm was actually a good play. I think that the Stage Three plays against Cryptic Command are kind of non-intuitive. Personally I had to lose a lot of mirrors before I figured out what mattered.

  • Great video. Also from what I see, 99% of decks that I play against real life or MTGO, that are green or white, are running Kitchen Finks in it so I don't know if it is underrated.

  • Yet people have been steadily cutting Kitchen Finks from their control builds...

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  • You get/null/destroy two/three of your opponent's cards for one of yours. EX: Using a pyroclasm when the opponent has two runeclaw bears on the board and you have nothing.

  • What is two for one and three for one?

  • Its not boring control on control matchups are my fave.

  • yh, but it is easy 2 criticise when you know wat is gonna happen later in th game. he wasnt aware of the plans nd probably hadnt drawn the cards you had named. if he had let cloudthresher pass then didnt draw sower or nekraatal he wud probably look pretty damn stupid

  • The wrong play there was using the Cryptic Command on the Esper Charm. It seemed solid since he was denying him action but if he had saved the Cryptic Command for that Wrath he would have won just due to board presence. Also Cryptic Command on the both of the Cloudthreshers wasn't that good either especially since he was running both Nekraatal and Sower. If he had Sower a Cloudthresher he would have almost certainly been able to go straight beatdown. In any case good match regardless...

  • sure you can they both cost three mana and are used to stall the ground and gain life how can you not compare them.

    And the question in my post above was rhetorical.

  • That looks more like a W/U/B Reveillark deck than a reflecting pool control deck.. Either way, it's still a good game because Lark decks tend to have the advantage over 5CC.

  • well if you understand why ask ... btw... you cant really compare bottle gnomes to finks..

  • whay program is that?

  • Yes we all understand that but that doesn't make necro better, necro does not have evoke.

    You don't keep a hand because you can slow the tempo other deck because of necro do you?

    Shriekmaw is still the better man.

    It's not like you choose bottle gnomes over kitchen finks because it can come back with lark.

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