Magic Duels

EDIT: Support for this game ended in late November 2019 and it appears that this achievement is no longer obtainable.

https://mtgduels-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/36003...


In order to earn this achievement, you need a 40 win differential in versus battles with a matched opponent. Each win raises your rank by one and each loss lowers your rank by one.

There was an exploit that allowed you to dashboard to prevent losses from counting, but that has been patched. The only way to get this now is by maintaining a greater than 50% win percentage and building your rank to 40.

Edit: Sets were released after I stopped playing so listing a deck I had success with years ago is pointless. Your best bet for a good current deck is to check No Goblins Allowed.

If you're like me, and you're terrible at building a competitive deck and trying to beat people online, don't fret. This can be boosted with either two people or doubleboxed. That's how I did it, and it was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be.

The trick is you need to dashboard during the loading screen where it shows the character/background. If you quit your game at that point, it won't count as a loss.

Setting things up is simple. There are no 'range brackets', so a level 1 can match up with a level 35. If you're boosting with two boxes, your second profile will always lose. If you're boosting it with a partner, have one person be the dedicated loser first and the other the dedicated winner. Every win is +1, every loss is -1, so you can't trade off until one person has gotten to 40. What decks you build doesn't really matter, but I would recommend building several decks as this method also works great for doing the new daily challenges which are largely 'do something in a versus match'. So you can work on those at the same time.

When you make your deck, make a note of what character avatar you choose for the deck, as well as what background is on the deck.

This is important, because when you're matching up, the character choice and the background choice will be how you identify if you've found the other person or not. If you're doing this with another person, communication is also very important. I used the bald white guy with a plains background for one deck and an armored bearded man with a mountains background for the other (if you leave a negative because I don't know their official names...shame on you.)

Choose any time you want, though if you do it in daytime hours of PST/EST, it will take you slightly longer to match up than if you do it in nighttime hours of PST/EST.

The losing profile starts searching first, and after two seconds the winning profile starts searching as well. If you find someone that isn't your partner, hit the guide button, scroll down to Magic Duels, hit Start, and go to Quit. Load the game up and go back to the 'Versus Battle with a Matched Opponent' and try again when you're both ready. As a tip, wait for the game to start showing the picture of the opponent before you decide the matchmaking failed, as there were some times where one profile would find someone and start loading the picture before the other started loading, even if both profiles had matched.

Once you're in the game, You must play it. The losing profile can just mulligan their hand down to one card and just keep skipping with Y, while the winner needs to put down creatures and take the opponents health down to 0. You can work on whatever daily challenges you have to do in a versus match or whatever.

Any questions, let me know. I used this method because I'm terrible with versus and I'd say overall it took maybe 5 hours to go from 0-40. Achievement timestamps tell me it took me 59 minutes to go from 30-40.

Master (50)
Hit rank 40 in ranked Versus Battles

short explanation about ranks, if anyone has any doubts as to how it works:
You start at rank 0 or 1.
If you win an online ranked match, your rank goes up by 1.
If you lose an online ranked match, your rank goes down by 1.
Your current rank or your opponents rank does not affect this - you go up or down by 1 rank.
If you lose connection to the server, you cannot gain rank. I don't know if you can lose rank, but I expect it to be similar.
If you lose connection to the internet or the game "fatal errors", I don't know if it affects your rank. Your opponent will get an AI, and can finish his/her game to gain a rank (or lose one).
The maximum rank is 40, which unlocks the "Master" achievement.

my red/white aggro-control decklist:
1x Kytheon, Hero of Akros
2x Anointer of Champions
3x Elite Vanguard
2x Fiery Impulse
4x Titan´s Strength
2x Knight of the White Orchid
2x Abbot of Keral Keep
4x Divine Favor
4x Inferno Fist
4x Celestial Flare
2x Twin Bolt
1x Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
3x Iroas´s Champion
2x Exquisite Firecraft
1x Archangel of Tithes
1x Avaricious Dragon
7x Plains
9x Mountains
2x Clifftop Retreat
4x Boros Guildgate