Challenge Mode

Are you a master of Shandalar and the constructed gauntlet? Challenge Mode offers a new way to test your skill ahainst difficult AI opponents. Winning challenges also unlocks new cards.

Here's how to play challenge mode: Run Launcher.exe and choose Challenge Mode. Fire up the gauntlet (1 game per match, and set # of matches to 50) and begin! If you're doing the first challenge (Tribal Trials), you'll notice that your opponent will start with a Kobold in play. That means everything is working. Note: one quirk is that if you lose a challenge, you have to exit and restart the program to try another challenge.

Challenge Descriptions and cards to get unlocked:

Challenge 1:
Tribal Trials (Mystic Enforcer) - opponent plays a tribal deck and gets a free creature
Vanguard Vengeance () - opponent starts the game with a Vanguard Avatar
Chipping Away () - at the beginning of each game, opponent drains your life
Onslaught () - each upkeep opponent gets a copy of a certain card
Shandalar 2.0 () - opponent starts the game with specific challenging cards in play
BANNED! () - each round a different color or card type cannot be played
5:1 Odds () - you must meet specific conditions before you can win the game

Challenge 2:
Super Mulligan (Mystic Enforcer) - start the game with 0 cards in hand
What Hand? () - skip your draw step
That's Big... () - you deck can only include lands and cards with mana cost > 3
Epic () - you can only play 1 spell the entire game
There can be only one () - your deck must be at least 100 cards and have no duplicates
March of the Machines () - your deck can ONLY include artifacts
Land Ho! () - your deck can ONLY include lands
Dude... () - your deck can ONLY include creatures

Challenge 3: For each of the deck building challenges, you may only use basic and dual lands.

Gather No Moss (Wall of Roots) - You may only use creatures with Defender. You can have 4 cards that break this rule/
Enchanted Evening (Illusions of Grandeur) - You may only use enchantments
Master Warlock (Donate) - You may only use sorceries
Urza Wannabe (Tezzeret the Seeker) - You may only use planeswalkers. You can have 4 cards that break this rule
Instant Gratification (Might of Alara) - You may only use instants
Gimme! (Sower of Temptation) - You may only use copy / stealing cards that are not also creatures
March of the Machines 2 (Umezawa's Jitte) - You may only use non-creature artifacts
Easy as 1, 2, 3... (Bloodbraid Elf) - Your deck must include eaxactly 4 one casting cost cards, 4 2 CC cards, ... up to 4 10 CC cards.
The Perfect Storm (Mind's Desire) - The turn you play a spell, you must win the game