Challenge

Using only cards legal in Standard¹ and given the seven-card hand of your choice, win the game as quickly as possible.

Assumptions

Aside from the choice of your starting hand, you do not have perfect luck. You may assume nothing about the cards you draw other than that they will be Standard-legal.

In this puzzle, since you may only use a seven-card hand, winning “quickly” refers only to the turn of the game.

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

Rast was the first to submit the fastest solution to last week’s puzzle, clocking in at turn two on the draw:

Play	Mana	Cards in Hand
Turn one		8
Forest		7
Turn two		8
Island		7
Summer Bloom		6
Island		5
Forest		4
Forest		3
Early Harvest		2
Early Harvest		1
Time Reversal		7
Summer Bloom		6
Mountain		5
Forest		4
Forest		3
Early Harvest	+ 5 ×	2
Early Harvest	+ 7 ×	1
Time Reversal	+ 7 ×	7
Early Harvest	+ 9 ×	6
Early Harvest	+ 11 ×	5
Early Harvest	6 × + + 13 ×	4
Blaze		3

¹ Standard contains cards in Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia, Magic 2012, Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn Restored.