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Sphinx's Revelation #9: Conversion Factors

by Jordan Draper // Jun 22, 2016

Welcome back puzzle afiocionados! The theme of this week's article is managing resources. As always, for the solution to last week's puzzle, Whose Destiny, scroll to the bottom.

Your opponent is Lauren. While you were busy assembling a decent board presence, she assembled the Tron lands. To secure her position, she cast Avacyn, Angel of Hope. The follow up play was to cast Platinum Angel as a soft lock. You just started your first main phase. Defeat Lauren before the end of your turn without losing!

The Puzzle

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Opponent: Lauren

Lauren is at 20 life and hellbent, with no relevant cards in her graveyard. On board she has:

You

You are at 19 life, in your first main phase. On board you have:

the following cards in hand:

volcanic awakening
slaughter pact
price of progress
empty the warrens
gut shot
lingering souls
vault skirge

Goodluck!

Post any solutions you come up with in the comments section and be sure to check back soon for the next puzzle! Remember, you can reach Jordan via Twitter, @adjunctmagician and email, urzaspuzzlebox@gmail.com.

Sphinx's Revelation #8: Whose Destiny? Solution

There were several viable solutions to last week's puzzle. I recommend reading through the comments to see them all. Cheers to users jj4th and Almog Dov for seeing solutions with the opponent at 22 life.

Main Phase
- Tap Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary for GGGGG.
- Tap all lands for a total of 3U, 10G.
- G, Activate Elvish Piper to put Iridescent Drake into play. Return Treachery to play and untap all Forest.
- Tap all Forest for a total of 3U, 14G.
- U, Cast Rescue and bounce Treachery to hand.
- UUGGG, Cast Treachery on Thran Golem. Untap all Forest.
- Tap all Foress for a total of 16G.
- Activate Goblin Festival eight times: targeting Chris three times, Voice of reason twice, voice of duty twice, aura thief once. Chris takes 7 damage total and you take 1 damage. If Chris gains control of Goblin Festival he could activate it to target you but it is irrelevant.
Declare Attackers
- Declare Bubbling Beebles 3/3, Thran Golem 5/5 (enchanted), Yavimaya Enchantress 7/7 and Aura Thief 2/2 attacking.
- All four creatures take 1 damage each from Caltrops, and in response you take 4 damage from Repercussion.
- Aura Thief dies, and you gain control of all Enchantments. The opponent sacrifices Tethered Griffin.
Declare Blockers and Damage Step
- Due to Repercussion, regardless of how blocks are assigned the opponent takes the total amount of damage assigned by your creatures which equals 15.
- We control Repercussion so can layer the triggers on the stack so that the opponent dies before we take damage from any blocks the opponent decides.