Beating the Challenges - Tutorial

[MarkyMark]

Ha, alright, here is the decklist:

.44 4 Control Magic
.7354 4 Threads of Disloyalty
.1341 4 Treachery
.6924 4 Vedalken Shackles
.266 4 Volcanic Island
.126 9 Island
.10164 4 Rite of Replication
.164 1 Mountain
.9809 4 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
.239 1 Swamp
.258 4 Underground Sea
.10971 1 Batterskull
.10357 3 Stoneforge Mystic
.188 1 Plains
.254 4 Tundra
.47 4 Copy Artifact
.216 4 Scrubland

So that's 28 land, because you need to hit all your landdrops. Copy Artifact is in there to copy opposing moxen and your own Batterskull. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker is a 4-of here, since he is so good against the creatureless decks, of which there are many. Rite of Replication is included over other copy-spells because 4 mana is really a lot less than 5 or 6.
Note that the basic lands are in there because the computer tends to use Path to Exile on the Pit Scorpion a lot.
All in all, I struggled with the Gimme challenge a lot, but with this deck I went through on my first or second try. Hope you all have the same luck!

[ozks]

i dont understand a thing!
can tell me how (with simple words) unlock the cards
only see on duel mode:
Solo Duel
Gauntlet
Sealed Deck
which one a choose?

Edit:
now i know -Gauntlet and mark challenge, but, the game crash at 2 turn unkeep
why dont unlock the cards (or you cant) and who want play gauntlet that would be apart
i can play the challenge! help! i want unlock the cards
theres no other way to do this easier?

[sandman423]

I built The Oath of Emrakul deck in the very 1st post and when I go into Challenge #1 to play Tribal I get deck invalid and it doesn't work...What is wrong here?

Strange I tried playing March of Machines #2 on Set 2 Challenge 7 and it again says I lose Instantly...Are there new rules for the Challenges as of Mana Link 3.0???

I am so confused. Are you not aloud to use any of Power 9 now?

Say Computer doesn't cheat not even a little bit.

[ozks]

I built The Oath of Emrakul deck in the very 1st post and when I go into Challenge #1 to play Tribal I get deck invalid and it doesn't work...What is wrong here?

Strange I tried playing March of Machines #2 on Set 2 Challenge 7 and it again says I lose Instantly...Are there new rules for the Challenges as of Mana Link 3.0???

I am so confused. Are you not aloud to use any of Power 9 now?

Say Computer doesn't cheat not even a little bit.

i see you can play now!
what was you problem, was the libraries?

and im playing without the sep-patch and it happen the same thing to me
i select random deck and now im playing. at the end just save my profile and export to new one with patch and wait till next patch...

[jenelmo]

I built The Oath of Emrakul deck in the very 1st post and when I go into Challenge #1 to play Tribal I get deck invalid and it doesn't work...What is wrong here?

I have the same problem so if someone knows how to fix it i would be very happy

[stassy]

Tested with the Oath deck and was able to start Challenge 1-1 and won the 1st round with no problem with latest patch

[Althuna]

Set #1
Challenge #6: BANNED

This challenge is pretty easy, as long as you make a deck with several colours, and try not to rely on one colour; i.e. make each of three colours roughly equal in your deck. I basically just copy/pasted my sliver deck that I used the first time around, with a few minor modifications, mostly to include Virulent Sliver, which was uncoded at the time. (it saved my ass in round 10 :p)

The rounds: | Open

Round 1: Stoic Angel gold deck. Black banned.
Round 2: Soldiers. Blue banned.
Round 3: WUB Artifacts. Green banned.
Round 4: Elf/Spawnwrithe Red banned.
Round 5: GU Threshold Deck. White banned.
Round 6: Kithkin. Artifacts banned.
Round 7: Countersliver deck. Planeswalkers and Enchantments banned.
Round 8: Turbofog. Creatures banned
Round 9: Goblin. Instants and sorceries banned.
Round 10: Black/Artifact. Alpha Myr, Juggernaut, Moxen, Juzam Djinn, Cathodion. Land banned.

Thanks to wronskian for filling in rounds 7 and 9 for me.

White/green/red sliver deck with Aether Vial: | Open

.1693 4 Heart Sliver
.1377 4 Muscle Sliver
.1386 4 Sinew Sliver
.1381 4 Bonesplitter Sliver
.1389 4 Talon Sliver
.1743 4 Æther Vial
.164 1 Mountain
.188 1 Plains
.91 1 Forest
.1385 4 Plated Sliver
.1387 4 Spinneret Sliver
.1380 4 Blade Sliver
.212 4 Savannah
.189 4 Plateau
.241 4 Taiga
.165 1 Mox Emerald
.167 1 Mox Pearl
.168 1 Mox Ruby
.1938 4 Virulent Sliver
.17 1 Black Lotus
.230 1 Sol Ring

Run #1: (crash) Round 4 ended up in a long, drawn out stalemate, and eventually locked up due to the number of creatures in play.
Run #2: (win) Had no real difficulties in most games. Round 8 requires you to mulligan until you get Aether Vial, which can be bad if you don't get it, and Round 10 requires you to mulligan until you get Moxes, and hopefully Aether Vial as well. In round 10 all I cast was Mox Emerald and two Virulent Sliver, and AI only cast two moxes, dark ritual and Juzam Djinn. My slivers outraced his juzam! Go poison! (sadly video recorder crashed when I tried to save it... this one's pretty easy, so you shouldn't have much trouble except for the last two rounds, where you have to mulligan a lot)

Owing to the deck being all artifacts/land/creatures, I don't know what is banned on round 9 :p When I did the challenge when it first came out, I must've used a planeswalker and it was from my old notes that I know that they are banned on round 7.

edit: added spoilers for round 7 and 9 that wronskian gave me.

How do you beat round 8 with creatures banned?

[Aswan jaguar]

If I am not wrong the creatures are banned to cast but not to be put in play with Aether Vial.

[Althuna]

If I am not wrong the creatures are banned to cast but not to be put in play with Aether Vial.

Cool thanks! I was thinking of making a deck that uses Ugin to put them into play so hopefully that will work. The challenges are fun.