Set #3
Challenge #6: Gimme!
In this challenge, your deck can only have noncreature cards that can copy or steal another card, and you are now allowed 4 cards that break this rule. (the latter was not true when the challenge first came out) You can also only use lands from beta.
When I originally beat this challenge, I remember asking Jatill to code
Sarkhan Vol as a 'gimme' card, since it can use its 2nd ability to steal a creature :p It also makes dragons...
I think there's probably a lot more 'gimme' cards coded than there were at the time I did this challenge. I'll make a list of them all as of Sept. 15, 2011:
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- Gimme cards (note: I have not tested these all to be 100% sure they work, I'm just going through deckbuilder and looking at what 'should' work)
*Animate Dead (steals dead creatures)
*Annex (steal a land)
*Bribery (steals creature from opponent's deck)
*Confiscate (steal a permanent)
*Conquer (steal a land)
*Control Magic (steal a creature)
*Copy Artifact (copy an artifact... duh?)
*Fork (copy an instant/sorcery)
*Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (2nd ability steals creatures; dunno why this one works when sarkhan vol and liliana vess don't)
*Reiterate (copy an instant or sorcery)
*Rite of Replication (copy a creature... or five)
*Sculpting Steel (copy an artifact)
*Steal Artifact (steal an... artifact)
*Threads of Disloyalty (steal a small creature... or a tarmogoyf)
*Twincast (copy an instant/sorcery)
*Treachery (steal a creature)
*Vedalken Shackles (steal a creature; another staple for this challenge)
* = confirmed that this is a working card in this challenge
Cards I realized later that might work but haven't bothered to test:
Keiga, the Tide Star
Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
Cards that should probably be legal here, but aren't:
Beacon of Unrest (steals dead artifacts/creatures)
Helm of Obedience (steals a creature from opponent's deck, LOCKED by challenge mode 4:6 Challenge Challenge)
Isochron Scepter (copy an instant/interrupt of 2 mana or less)
Karn Liberated (3rd ability steals everything it previously exiled, possibly intentional due to the main ability being permanent removal/discard)
Liliana Vess (3rd ability steals all opponent's dead creatures, again possibly intentional due to main abilities not being stealing)
Mimic Vat (copies the exiled creature)
Mirari (copy an instant/sorcery)
Mirrorweave (copy the target creature many times)
Phrexian Metamorph (copies artifacts or creatures)
Sarkhan Vol (this one might be on purpose due to its primary usage being non-gimmelike)
Spitting Image (copy a creature)
Splinter Twin (copy enchanted creature)
Vesuva (copies land)
The deck I am using after figuring out which cards were legal or not in this challenge is:
- Gimme that | Open
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.44 4 Control Magic
.1053 4 Rite Of Replication
.627 4 Threads of Disloyalty
.1341 4 Treachery
.258 4 Underground Sea
.266 4 Volcanic Island
.254 4 Tundra
.252 4 Tropical Island
.985 4 Bribery
.630 4 Vedalken Shackles
.1000 4 Confiscate
.126 11 Island
.815 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
.451 4 Ring of Ma'rûf
Run #1: Loss. On round #1, I went against the (creatureless)
Mana Flare/
X damage R/G deck, and for the first time in the history of my challenge mode experiences, lost against that deck, as Bolas was the only possible win condition. This means that somewhere in the 4 wild cards, it is necessary to have a win condition against creatureless decks, such as the turbofog millstone, the creatureless red direct damage decks, and so on. (since I don't want to keep autoquitting whenever I hit one of those)
I changed my 4 wild cards to 4x
Ring of Ma'ruf, so I can pick and choose what I need based on which deck I need a particular win condition for. They also will work against creature-based decks, too.
Run #2: Loss. Got beaten on round #1 by the threshold deck. Due to the high mana curve in my deck, I couldn't cast a spell until turn 4, and the AI decided to
Force of Will that attempt to steal a
Tarmogoyf. By turn 5, I was dead.
Run #3: Loss. Round 1 was white weenie, and the AI had me at 1hp on turn 4, with 6 creatures on the board. I was on the draw, and didn't get to cast a spell until it didn't matter anymore.
Run #4: Loss. Beat kobolds in round 1, then lost to affinity in round 2. The AI was 1hp short of killing me on turn 3.
edit sept. 15:
Run #5: Loss. Slivers ate me alive in round 1.
Run #6: Loss. Got to round 6, the best performance so far with this deck, but the
X damage mana flare deck beat me again, since I had no win conditions besides rings and bolas, which I never got.
Run #7: Loss. Round 2 slivers came up again. I would have had a decent chance if it hadn't played three crystalline slivers by turn 4 :p I couldn't steal anything except one creature with
Bribery.
Run #8: Loss. Round 3 was zombies, and it was just too fast. I had a decent hand, too, or as good as this deck can be.
Run #9: Loss. Round 1 was red direct damage... nothing to steal but spark elementals...
Run #10: Loss. Round 3 was red direct damage again. I got a Ring of Ma'Ruf out, planning to fetch CoP: Red, but I died the next turn to a fistful of flame rifts and lightning bolts.
Run #11: Loss. Round 1 was affinity; it got a turn 4 win. If it hadn't played
Time Walk... I might've been able to come back, but that screwed me hard.
Run #12: Loss. Merfolk beat me in round 4. A well-timed
Counterspell ruined my day.
Run #13: Loss. The red black vise deck killed me in round 1.
I'm going to leave this challenge behind for now and move on to the next one, in the hopes that more of the steal/copy cards will be added to the legal challenge list for this one.