Challenge

Using only cards from Onslaught block other than Mind's Desire, win the game as quickly as possible using a single storm card as the win condition.

This means that if you win with Scattershot or Tendrils of Agony, you can’t damage your opponent until you cast the final storm card, and if you win with Brain Freeze, you can’t mill your opponent or cause him to draw extra cards until you cast the final storm card.

Assumptions

You have perfect luck. For example, even after you shuffle your library, it’s ordered how you want. You may not assume anything about your opponent’s hand or library except that he won’t do anything relevant.

Attacking “quickly” refers to both the turn of the game and whether you’re playing or drawing first. Turn three on the draw is quicker than turn four on the play but not as quick as turn three on the play. If you’re on the play, winning on the opponent’s third turn is slower than winning on your second turn but faster than winning on your third turn. It’s equally as fast as winning on your third turn on the draw.

Send your solutions to nex342+puzzle at gmail dot com with the subject line “Puzzle – Storm Crown”, and I’ll include the best ones in next week’s article along with the next puzzle!

Good luck!

Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle

Last week’s puzzle seems to have been pretty hard; I received only a handful of solutions. But I did receive a few! Steve Guillerm sent in the first:

1. Cast Crucible of Worlds as Blasting Station.
2. Cast Troll Ascetic as Eternal Witness.
3. Cast Stromkirk Captain as Demonic Dread, cascading into Evermind as Lotus Bloom.
4. Sacrifice Eternal Witness to Blasting Station to deal 1 damage to the opponent.
5. Sacrifice Lotus Bloom for .
6. Cast Glorious Anthem as Second Sunrise, returning Eternal Witness and Lotus Bloom to the battlefield; Eternal Witness returns Glorious Anthem to your hand.
7. Repeat Steps 4 through 6 until the opponent is dead.