Challenge

Win the game as quickly as possible, using only cards from the following categories:

• White cards from Magic 2012
• Blue cards from Magic 2011
• Black cards from Magic 2010
• Red cards from Tenth Edition
• Green cards from Ninth Edition
• Artifacts and lands from Eighth Edition

You may use cards from multiple categories.

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.

Winning “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.

Send your solutions to nex342+puzzle at gmail dot com with the subject line “Puzzle – Slicing the Color Pie”, 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

There were a lot of cool solutions to last week’s puzzle. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to present all of them, but I can present the fastest: From Rast, this solution produces infinite Essence tokens turn two on the play.

Play	Mana	Cards in Hand
Turn one		7
Forest		6
Avacyn's Pilgrim		5
Turn two		6
Mountain		5
Young Wolf		4
Infernal Plunge ×3, sacrificing Avacyn's Pilgrim and Young Wolf (twice)		1
Faithless Looting		0
Flash back Unburial Rites targeting Griselbrand		0
Pay 14 life to draw fourteen cards		14
Infernal Plunge		13
Thatcher Revolt		12
Battle Hymn		11
Reckless Waif		10
Battle Hymn ×2		8
Past in Flames		7
Flash back Battle Hymn x3		7
Flash back Infernal Plunge x4	16×	7
Vessel of Endless Rest ×2	10× +	5
Primal Surge		4

Primal Surge puts three Avacyn's Pilgrim, three Lightning Prowess, four Scorned Villager, four Lightning Mauler, and one Village Bell-Ringer onto the battlefield. The Maulers bind with the Villagers, and the Prowesses attach to the Pilgrims. Tap everything for mana, and then cast Cloudshift on Bell-Ringer to untap everything. Using a couple copies of Make a Wish to return each other and Cloudshift, you now have infinite green and white mana.

With infinite mana, use Grim Flowering to draw Essence of the Wild and Entreat the Angels. Cast Essence, and then cast Entreat for infinite Essence tokens.