Depends. You would shuffle Dark Impostor into your library, and flip over cards from your library until you found a card named "Mirror-Mad Phantasm". If there are no other Mirror-Mads left in the deck, you'll put your entire deck in your graveyard.
Then, assuming you still have 0 cards in your deck and Laboratory Maniac is still in play, you'll win the game the next time you draw a card.
Note that you must draw another card. Maniac's ability replaces losing the game due to decking out, and you don't lose due to decking out until you draw, not immediately upon putting your deck in your grave.
I've built decks around this type of combo, and played against them as well. Word to the wise: it's all fun and games until your lab maniac is doom bladed at your upkeep.
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Why not just play leveler? Mirror mad phantasm and dark imposter cost much more, and you can only have one mad phantasm in the deck because multiple copies will cause the combo to sputter.
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Why not just play leveler? Mirror mad phantasm and dark imposter cost much more, and you can only have one mad phantasm in the deck because multiple copies will cause the combo to sputter.
Why not just play leveler? Mirror mad phantasm and dark imposter cost much more, and you can only have one mad phantasm in the deck because multiple copies will cause the combo to sputter.
The three named cards are legal in Standard, its possible the OP wants to build a Standard deck. Otherwise I agree, Leveler is better.
Well, no this combo wouldn't work sorry, the ruling on "dark imposter" is, "If an activated ability of a card in exile references the card it’s printed on by name, treat Dark Impostor’s version of that ability as though it referenced Dark Impostor by name instead. For example, if Marrow Bats (which says “Pay 4 life: Regenerate Marrow Bats") is exiled with Dark Impostor, Dark Impostor has the ability “Pay 4 life: Regenerate Dark Impostor.” " so if you used mirror-mad phantom's activated ability it would treat the ability as "reveal cards until you find Dark Imposter"
You would be correct if the ability was a standard one that just names the card it is on. Unfortunately it is not, the ability on mirror mad phantasm specifically looks for a 'card named Mirror-mad phantasm'.
Even when the Dark Imposter is copying the phantasm the ability will still read 'until you reveal a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm'.
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That only applies to the card referencing itself by name. However, Mirror-Mad Phanasm's ability only references itself for shuffling itself into the library, but the revealing part only stops when "a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm" is revealed, which is not a selfreference and thus does not stop the process when an Imposter is revealed.
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Exile the Mirror-Mad with the Imposter and use The mirror-mad ability via the imposter then deck yourself for the win?
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And yes it would only if you only have one phantasm.
Then, assuming you still have 0 cards in your deck and Laboratory Maniac is still in play, you'll win the game the next time you draw a card.
Note that you must draw another card. Maniac's ability replaces losing the game due to decking out, and you don't lose due to decking out until you draw, not immediately upon putting your deck in your grave.
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Leveler is not standard
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The three named cards are legal in Standard, its possible the OP wants to build a Standard deck. Otherwise I agree, Leveler is better.
Even when the Dark Imposter is copying the phantasm the ability will still read 'until you reveal a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm'.
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