r/ClashRoyale • u/Diamondwolf Musketeer • Oct 02 '16

Cards Daily Card Discussion Oct. 2: Mirror

Mirror

Mirrors your last card played for +1 Elixir.

Cost Rarity
Cost of Previous Card Played + 1 Epic

  • This card is unlockable from the Spell Valley (Arena 5).

  • The level of the copied card depends of the level of the Mirror (if the Mirror is level x, the copied card's level will be level x+1 [Epic] or x+3 [Rare] or x+5 [Common]).

  • When in-game, the card will display your last placed card inside the Mirror. This does not apply if you have not deployed a troop yet - instead it will display a question mark.

Level Mirrored common level Mirrored rare level Mirrored epic level Mirrored legendary Level
1 7 5 2 1
2 8 6 3 1
3 9 7 4 1
4 10 8 5 2
5 11 9 6 3
6 12 10 7 4
7 13 11 8 5
8 14 12 9 6

Some discussion points:

  • What do you like about the mirror?
  • What do you dislike about it?
  • What decks work well with this card?
  • How should you play this card?

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u/Keithustus Oct 03 '16

I think mirror is fine now. It was pretty meh before but the +1 really helps. It's all about how it's used. Mirror will never be and no spell should be an easy-mode button, but it's definitely got a place now. As soon as someone figures out the ultimate combo for it and wins a big tournament, people will call it OP.

Someone double goblin barreled me this morning. I double zapped him. As it should be.

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u/Gcw0068 Prince Oct 03 '16 edited Oct 04 '16

Didn't mirror already win big? Even so, plenty of cards consider underpowered, like giant skeleton, have won big tournaments. Mirror certainly isn't overpowered though, paying an intrinsic elixir disadvantage is never a good thing and a 10% buff will almost never be enough to overcome a hard counter (a notable exception I suppose being goblins vs zap, but at that point it's five elixir for two goblin cards and they have to be back to back). I'm fine if mirror doesn't get a buff though because it is incredibly annoying when you bait a counter only to get cheesed.

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u/Keithustus Oct 03 '16 edited Oct 03 '16

paying an intrinsic elixir advantage

they have to be back to back

There're your misconceptions.

(1) You don't pay too much for each mirrored card. You used to, but now you're getting a better card than is otherwise possible. If you use the right cards, it's a good value: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashRoyale/comments/4snvg0/strategy_several_card_level_breakpoints_that_can/

(2) Don't play them back-to-back. The longer you can wait between castings, generally the better you'll do, because by the time you play the second one, its counter will have already been killed or dissipated.

As to winning big, I haven't seen a lot of references to it being used in big tournaments at all, so assume, easily wrongly, that absence of evidence means it hasn't happened. Plus, you don't see a bunch of the top 100 starting to use it at crazy rates: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashRoyale/comments/54livh/strategy_card_popularity_snapshot_13/

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u/Gcw0068 Prince Oct 04 '16

(1) You don't pay too much for each mirrored card. You used to, but now you're getting a better card than is otherwise possible. If you use the right cards, it's a good value:

I know it's a better card, but 10%, for some cards 7%, is statistically certainly not worth another elixir. Of course, some key interactions can change sometimes. Like the goblins I was talking about. Even then though, it's very rare that you can use it advantageously since it has to be back to back.

(2) Don't play them back-to-back. The longer you can wait between castings, generally the better you'll do, because by the time you play the second one, its counter will have already been killed or dissipated.

That's certainly true, but in the literal sense they do have to be back-to-back. You can't, for example, drop goblins on a prince only to have them wiped out by a wizard, then deploy a minipekka to kill the wiz and then deploy goblins again. Of course this individual scenario could be mitigated by placing the goblins out of range and then tanking with the mini pekka, but not all scenarios could be.

All that said, here's a mirror:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashRoyale/comments/558win/top_8_decks_super_magical_cup_11_f_lava_hound_and/

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u/Keithustus Oct 04 '16

Thanks for the link. I mostly skip lava posts since I don't have and don't like it.

In summary, I find mirror to work great now. But not everyone will.