more challenge difficulties

by **joemuz** » 11 Nov 2009, 06:50

hi, i've been bashing my head against the wall trying to do the last challenge of the first set. (5:1, prize: Serum Powder)... and well, it looks like i finally got it after many many many hours but the card is not unlocking

i just beat #11 and i'm sure this is the last guy...it's the one where i have to have 1 strip mine while the AI has 5 of them. i know i did it correctly because the poison counter showed. my heart was racing as i finished it up with a felidar (and just in time as there were 0 cards in my library

) and the thing that says "you won" came up and then it said "now facing opponent #12" so i assumed that as soon as the next upkeep started, it would say that the card is unlocked as usual but it didn't!!!!

please please, if anyone knows anyway i can salvage this please let me know. i'm leaving the computer running right now. i just don't know what to do. it's the beginning of opponent #12 and i should have already got the card unlocked but it didn't. i really confused. should i keep trying to win? even though there are no conditions given? if i beat #12, will the card THEN unlock? plz plz plz help. i just spent all day getting this damn challenge and i thought i finally succeeded but this is just very very very distressing. and i'm rambling and delirious. please help. thank you.

by **joemuz** » 11 Nov 2009, 15:10

ok wow... this is unbelievable. i really thought i had gotten screwed again :lol:

but i did get the card unlocked. however i had to beat another opponent! (nothing special, i just beat him with no condition since there was none given) i don't know if anyone else had this problem but for whatever reason, i had to beat opponent #12 and then i got the card unlocked. very strange. it's a good thing i set the gauntlet to 20 opponents! oh well. i hope the other challenges aren't as hard as this one was! i swear between the crashes and the bad luck, i thought i'd never beat this.

by **jatill** » 11 Nov 2009, 16:10

joemuz wrote:ok wow... this is unbelievable. i really thought i had gotten screwed again but i did get the card unlocked. however i had to beat another opponent! (nothing special, i just beat him with no condition since there was none given) i don't know if anyone else had this problem but for whatever reason, i had to beat opponent #12 and then i got the card unlocked. very strange. it's a good thing i set the gauntlet to 20 opponents! oh well. i hope the other challenges aren't as hard as this one was! i swear between the crashes and the bad luck, i thought i'd never beat this.

This one is the hardest by a mile, if you factor in the crashes.

by **joemuz** » 12 Nov 2009, 02:42

yea! i feel like i had run a marathon by the end of this one! but it's kind of weird because some of the conditions are actually really easy! the first one is pretty easy, the second one isn't too bad depending on the deck you face. same with the third one. the fourth one is a little difficult (especially since there is no more manaburn!). the condition for the fifth one is really easy. i almost don't pay attention to it and get it most of the time. the sixth one is the first really time-consuming one. not really hard but can take a while even with millstones. the seventh one... well not too hard. i just used jester's cap and 2 swords to plowshares/path to exile... can still be very ennerving at this stage of the challenge! eighth, again pretty simple. 9th, pretty self-explanatory, needs 4 time vaults to do the trick.

so the first 9 steps are actually not too hard. can be time-consuming and easy to make mistakes and of course those crashes every now and then. but it's the LAST 2 that really make this challenge crazy! the 10th.. well all i really have to say about that is you have a very sick sense of humor jatill! any chance the opp can use that deck for the next step?? :lol:

i remmeber the first time i reached this step and i didn't have any moxen in my deck! you can imagine the look on my face. :mad:

after quitting for the day and trying again later, i actually used a neat trick (ghazban ogre/ashnod's transmogrant) and an atog to finish it off!

and the last one, well i won't say anything more. easily the most difficult, crash-likely part of the challenge. you gotta be pretty insane to be able to do it and make it through without messing up and withstanding the crashes and all and even MORE insane to come up with that challenge in the first place! :mrgreen:

heheh, jk. i actually enjoy doing these challenges so thanks for coming up with these really! now time to work on another one!