Challenge 2-5 : There can be only one

by **Salbei** » 20 Feb 2011, 07:30

There can be only one
Challenge: 2-5
Unlocks: (Street Wraith)
Description: your deck must be at least 100 cards and have no duplicates
NavigationChallenge Index - Archive for Set 2

Please discuss this Challenge here!

by **Salbei** » 22 Feb 2011, 02:46

Found at the Archive, might be outdated.

aww1979 wrote:There can only be one... (unlocks Street Wraith)

.1707 1 Academy Rector
.62 1 Demonic Tutor
.349 1 Enlightened Tutor
.328 1 Idyllic Tutor
.352 1 Mystical Tutor
.334 1 Personal Tutor
.333 1 Vampiric Tutor
.331 1 Imperial Seal
.1351 1 Tinker
.1308 1 Platinum Angel
.248 1 Time Vault
.249 1 Time Walk
.250 1 Timetwister
.317 1 Tolarian Academy
.457 1 Mox Diamond
.165 1 Mox Emerald
.166 1 Mox Jet
.167 1 Mox Pearl
.168 1 Mox Ruby
.169 1 Mox Sapphire
.815 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker*
.807 1 Ajani Goldmane
.808 1 Liliana Vess
.809 1 Chandra Nalaar
.804 1 Jace Beleren
.822 1 Ajani Vengeant
.802 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
.1545 1 Jokulhaups
.1100 1 Obliterate
.1121 1 Pyroclasm
.290 1 Wrath of God
.1275 1 Damnation
.10 1 Balance
.17 1 Black Lotus
.230 1 Sol Ring
.202 1 Regrowth
.1948 1 Volcanic Fallout
.145 1 Lightning Bolt
.1328 1 Lightning Helix
.588 1 Path to Exile
.240 1 Swords to Plowshares
.1 1 Ancestral Recall
.282 1 Wheel of Fortune
.309 1 Windfall
.567 1 Wildfire
.1910 1 Yawgmoth's Will*
.1550 1 Voltaic Key
.1302 1 Vindicate
.1937 1 Maelstrom Pulse
.1897 1 Land Grant
.1744 1 Honden of Cleansing Fire
.1749 1 Honden of Infinite Rage
.1747 1 Honden of Life's Web
.1748 1 Honden of Night's Reach
.1745 1 Honden of Seeing Winds
.327 1 Grim Tutor
.1894 1 Goblin Charbelcher
.1957 1 Cursed Scroll
.499 1 Brainstorm
.312 1 Ponder
.720 1 Mana Drain
.1352 1 Repulse
.356 1 Exclude
.823 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant*
.829 1 Underworld Dreams
.1671 1 Arc Lightning
.1337 1 Blightning
.1886 1 Burning Wish
.1889 1 Cunning Wish
.1899 1 Living Wish
.451 1 Ring of Ma'rûf
.711 1 Serum Powder
.812 1 The Abyss
.441 1 Thirst for Knowledge
.1202 1 Crumbling Necropolis
.9 1 Badlands
.258 1 Underground Sea
.266 1 Volcanic Island
.1487 1 Polluted Delta
.1638 1 Blood Crypt
.1489 1 Bloodstained Mire
.1633 1 Watery Grave
.1636 1 Steam Vents
.403 1 City of Brass
.1206 1 Arcane Sanctum
.1205 1 Seaside Citadel
.1204 1 Savage Lands
.1203 1 Jungle Shrine
.438 1 Library of Alexandria
.216 1 Scrubland
.254 1 Tundra
.189 1 Plateau
.1473 1 Windswept Heath
.1474 1 Wooded Foothills
.1488 1 Flooded Strand
.252 1 Tropical Island
.12 1 Bayou
.241 1 Taiga
.212 1 Savannah
.1876 1 Reflecting Pool

Some of the cards in here are rather stupid and antisynergistic, but they are fun. Cursed Scroll was there just to see if it actually works. I think it does, since it showed me picking cards (which it didn't before) I just never guessed the right one so I don't know if it will deal damage!

The wishes were also a waste of time; they never impacted any games other than to speed up some kills by one turn. I included them to 'cheat' the highlander rule, but I never needed to. (the academy rector can 'cheat' to get planeswalkers, too, but I only got him once and I'd already won the game by then anyway) The charbelcher was there just to play with; it sped up some games, too, but in this deck it only usually does 1-3 damage, so it wasn't that big a deal. Jokulhaups and Obliterate were included because all the kill cards (shrines, planeswalkers, spells) are unaffected by them. I never got them with Elspeth, but that would have been sweet. Then the rest of the stuff is just various creature removal. The games were won by Platinum Angel, Chandra/Honden of Rage/Underworld pings, and the occasional lightning bolt or nicol bolas explosion to the head. My favourite was using Liliana to bring back everything that The Abyss ate against the Gaddock Teeg deck The numerous tutors exist to set up either the Angel or Vault/Key, or find whichever kill condition will be most efficient if you already have that.

Possible cards to remove for improvement: Cursed Scroll, Goblin Charbelcher, Jace Valeren (never drew him, so no idea if he helps), wishes/ring of maruf.

edit: I just realized some people might not have Cursed Scroll (from the first set) or Goblin Charbelcher (if you didn't do That's Big earlier) or Serum Powder from the 10:1 series. Of those, Serum Powder saved me in one game, but the others are unimportant and can be substituted with any control/removal type card.

somacat wrote:And here is my list for 'There Can Be Only One':

.15 1 Birds of Paradise
.1251 1 Carven Caryatid
.1223 1 Eternal Witness
.1915 1 Genesis
.1532 1 Indrik Stomphowler
.1853 1 Protean Hulk
.1222 1 Ravenous Baloth
.1470 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
.1733 1 Tarmogoyf
.1250 1 Wall of Blossoms
.1186 1 Vine Trellis
.1191 1 Wood Elves
.594 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
.1098 1 Nekrataal
.1944 1 Shriekmaw
.1226 1 Visara the Dreadful
.1707 1 Academy Rector
.1585 1 Baneslayer Angel
.1801 1 Battlegrace Angel
.1814 1 Wall of Reverence
.1935 1 Kitchen Finks
.1368 1 Loxodon Hierarch
.1861 1 Qasali Pridemage
.823 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant*
.726 1 Moat
.808 1 Liliana Vess
.802 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
.1698 1 Survival of the Fittest
.1839 1 Pernicious Deed
.1319 1 Armadillo Cloak
.588 1 Path to Exile
.349 1 Enlightened Tutor
.240 1 Swords to Plowshares
.333 1 Vampiric Tutor
.381 1 Mortify
.301 1 Putrefy
.10 1 Balance
.328 1 Idyllic Tutor
.290 1 Wrath of God
.1275 1 Damnation
.62 1 Demonic Tutor
.1428 1 Disturbed Burial
.331 1 Imperial Seal
.162 1 Mind Twist
.358 1 Kodama's Reach
.307 1 Farseek
.1243 1 Harmonize
.1471 1 Explosive Vegetation
.1899 1 Living Wish
.1967 1 Life from the Loam
.202 1 Regrowth
.517 1 Tooth and Nail
.1515 1 Death Grasp
.1302 1 Vindicate
.1937 1 Maelstrom Pulse
.1912 1 Crucible of Worlds
.1781 1 Loxodon Warhammer
.1308 1 Platinum Angel
.402 1 Sensei's Divining Top
.1207 1 Solemn Simulacrum
.1833 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
.1924 1 Recurring Nightmare
.1925 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
.17 1 Black Lotus
.1955 1 Coalition Relic
.165 1 Mox Emerald
.166 1 Mox Jet
.167 1 Mox Pearl
.230 1 Sol Ring
.12 1 Bayou
.1986 1 Barren Moor
.1489 1 Bloodstained Mire
.1488 1 Flooded Strand
.1635 1 Godless Shrine
.1650 1 Golgari Rot Farm
.694 1 Karakas
.438 1 Library of Alexandria
.562 1 Orzhov Basilica
.1631 1 Overgrown Tomb
.740 1 Pendelhaven
.1487 1 Polluted Delta
.1876 1 Reflecting Pool
.212 1 Savannah
.216 1 Scrubland
.1989 1 Secluded Steppe
.1649 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
.528 1 Strip Mine
.1499 1 Temple Garden
.1469 1 Terramorphic Expanse
.1990 1 Tranquil Thicket
.1946 1 Treetop Village
.1950 1 Windbrisk Heights
.1473 1 Windswept Heath
.1728 1 Wasteland
.239 1 Swamp
.188 1 Plains
.91 1 Forest
.833 1 Urborg
.960 1 Elfhame Palace
.1203 1 Jungle Shrine

by **HornofAmmon** » 05 Apr 2011, 00:34

Salbei wrote:There can be only one
Challenge: 2-5
Unlocks: (Street Wraith)
Description: your deck must be at least 100 cards and have no duplicates
NavigationChallenge Index - Archive for Set 2

Please discuss this Challenge here!

Before I go to make a deck, can there be duplicates for basic lands?

by **aww1979** » 05 Apr 2011, 05:01

I'm fairly sure that even basic lands cannot have duplicates on this one.

by **Perloxus** » 05 Apr 2011, 11:35

Hi, I played this challenge on the last weekend.

I used a UW Control build with tons of carddraw and many defensive spells. Hardest matchups were slivers (of course). If you fall behind here, then it becomes very hard because of the many counterspells they bring along.

Mox, two lands and Tinker (or Tutor) in the opening hand often mean GG. If a stalemate happens Luminarch Ascension very often breaks it. Sometimes I had to tutor for Worship in order to survive.
I was happy with every single creature in the deck, also with Elspeth.

Needed 3 attempts with this last version::

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