Simple duel against challenge decks?

[bla]

Is there a way to play against the challenge decks in simple duel?
Maybe this has been asked before, but I searched and found nothing here.

[jatill]

Not exactly. The closest you can do it play the 5:1 challenge and just not care about the special win condition.

[bla]

Ok, thanks for the quick reply.

Is it technical limitations? Something to do with the decks showing up in the deckbuilder if they are available for duel?
Because obviously we don't want that. The temptation might be too overwhelming

[jatill]

Yes, it's because I don't want people messing with the decks. You can just create your own versions in the deckbuilder, if course.

[bla]

Ok.
By the way, those are some nicely constructed decks. Very competitive even in a normal game. I think the one I liked the most was the green/blue deck with counterspells and lorescale coatls, quirion driads etc. When the A.I. has got a good hand it's bloody hard to overcome.

Maybe I'll build some of those decks.
Any chance of posting at least that one? Or do you feel that's too much poking around with a challenge deck?

[aww1979]

If you want to learn what the challenge decks are, make a dummy deck with something like Bribery or Jester's Cap to look at the AIs deck, make a note of what you see. Do this until you know all 60 cards, which should take maybe 2-3 casts of Bribery. Then create the decks in deckbuilder and there you go

[stassy]

Here are the jatill decks done with aww technique, bonus deck with avatar version is included to fight against a nobrain unfair version close to challenge.

There is to note that the original jatill decks didn't have any land, so I filled them all with basics but the multi ones

[bla]

Much apreciated guys.

[Salbei]

i´ve listed a couple on my page - challenge section (the list is not complete since i got lazy )

lists in .dck form ->
kobolds.dck
jzombies.dck
jfaeries.dck
jkithkins.dck
jmerfolk.dck
jrelentless.dck
jelves.dck
jgoblins.dck
jsoldiers.dck
jslivers.dck
jgrow.dck
jsharuum.dck
jspawnwrithe.dck
jfog.dck

[aww1979]

With the valentine's update, a few of these decks have changed. For instance, the black artifact deck has Deathbringer Liege, the blue/white/black artifact deck has Lodestone Golem, and the elf deck has Joraga Warcaller. There might be other changes, too, and I don't know what Jatill took out to fit those in.

edit: Oh, and the turbofog has Luminarch Ascension, too.

[bla]

I've rebuilt most of the decks that you can find in challenge set 1 but I know I'm missing a blue artifact deck (with Lodestone Golem) and one called zoo I believe(with Wild Nacatl.)

So far I have the following decks apart from the ones posted by Salbei:
burn
x mana (Manaflare Heartbeat of Spring)
blue and black Winter Orb
red Winter Orb
green and vampires

Beating all the challenge decks is a good trial to any new deck. Maybe a mini challenge out of it?

If anybody is interested I can post the decks I rebuilt.
And maybe someone can post the ones I missed.