Welcome to the deck that breaks all the rules, while breaking none at the same time. This deck Revolves around the cards Wheel of Sun and Moon + Tormenting Voice + Lich's Mastery + Confessor for infinite life. How do these cards produce infinite life? By abusing rule 721.1 and rule 601.2h.
Rule 721.1 Show
721.1. If a player takes an illegal action or starts to take an action but can’t legally complete it, the
entire action is reversed and any payments already made are canceled. No abilities trigger and no
effects apply as a result of an undone action. If the action was casting a spell, the spell returns to the
zone it came from. The player may also reverse any legal mana abilities activated while making the
illegal play, unless mana from them or from any triggered mana abilities they triggered was spent
on another mana ability that wasn’t reversed. Players may not reverse actions that moved cards to a
library, moved cards from a library to any zone other than the stack, caused a library to be shuffled,
or caused cards from a library to be revealed.
Rule 601.2h Show
601.2h The player pays the total cost in any order. Partial payments are not allowed. Unpayable
costs can’t be paid.
Example: You cast Altar’s Reap, which costs {1}{B} and has an additional cost of
sacrificing a creature. You sacrifice Thunderscape Familiar, whose effect makes your
black spells cost {1} less to cast. Because a spell’s total cost is “locked in” before
payments are actually made, you pay {B}, not {1}{B}, even though you’re sacrificing the
Familiar.
How do these two rules interact with the above cards? Simple. If we have Wheel of Sun and Moon enchanting ourselves, Lich's Mastery, and Confessor all o the field, when we attempt to cast Tormenting voice, we then tap two lands for mana that is not red to attempt to get the correct amount and colour for Tormenting Voice, then we will choose to pay the cost of discarding a card first, this will cause it to be revealed and put on the bottom of our library instead, then we will try to pay the mana cost of the spell and find we don't have the correct colours of mana. This causes the entire spell and all actions caused by it to be reversed, including the discard, but OH WAIT, the card was moved to the library, so it can't be undone. This means we will have discarded a card for FREE, we will then gain one life and draw a card. How o we know confessor will see what we did as discarding? Well, let's look at a ruling from Leyline of the Void, which has a similar replacement effect for discarding cards.
8/15/2010 Show
8/15/2010 If your opponent discards a card while you control Leyline of the Void, abilities that function when that card is discarded (such as Liliana’s Caress’s ability, or a madness ability of the discarded card) still work, even though that card never reaches that player’s graveyard. In addition, spells or abilities that check the characteristics of the discarded card (such as Chandra Ablaze’s first ability) can find that card in exile.
Yep. That mans we will still gain the one life for discarding out card.
What can this combo do? All it does by itself if let us go through our library until we hit a card we want. What card is that? Well, any card that can win the game with infinite life of course, and that just so happens to be Aetherflux Reservoir.
Yes you could use real discard outlets, but this is much more entertaining.
Also keep in mind that intentionally committing an illegal action is considered cheating and could get you Disqualified.
