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Thopter Squadron

Thopter Squadron

Tapped or sacrificed five artifacts you controlled outside of combat in a single turn

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How to unlock the Thopter Squadron achievement in Magic Duels - Definitive Guide

Did this yesterday with a Black/Artifact deck. Easiest to do with one of the Sacrifice ability creatures I noted in the Treasonous Action achievement guide (Nantuko Husk or Bloodflow Connoisseur). Once you have 5+ artifact creatures on the field, you can sacrifice them all out of combat using one of these abilities.

To cycle through my deck without losing these creatures, I combined 3x Necromantic Thirst on a flying creature (this, of course, is completely optional). I was able to constantly sacrifice creatures to build up +1/+1 counters on the Vampire (preventing the AI from making any rash moves) and then bring them back. Once I had 5 artifact creatures on the field, that's all she wrote.
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01 Aug 2015 20:39

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the card is Necromantic Thirst, not Hunger right?
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By Spakon on 17 Aug 2015 03:31
@Spakon, Yes. My bad. Edited.
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By Timmay on 19 Aug 2015 16:41
Whirler Rogue makes this achievement trivial. Turn off simple targeting, play her, then use other cards to send her back to your hand to recast (like Separatist Voidmage, Disperse, etc - Jace helps if you have him). Keep doing it until you've got 6 copters and tap them with her special ability. Can make a viable deck.
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By JMJimmy on 14 Mar 2016 23:21
Thopter spy network enchantment helps, too.
toast
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By xx Hollywood on 20 Jun 2016 01:46
Agree with both @JMJimmy & @doowylloH. I posted this solution for early players before I even had all cards in the original set. Nowadays this acheivement would be even easier than before.
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By Timmay on 01 Jul 2016 21:24
I think this cheevo is bugged. Showed I got it in game but it never popped, along with Relic Hunter.
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By SkeezaPleez on 24 Jul 2016 06:29
I have a similar issue. Relic Hunter unlocked but Thopter Squadron and Triple Threat did not. They all showed in the game that I got them.
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By ds9ds9ds9 on 24 Jul 2016 16:52
I was able to unlock Thopter Squadron and Triple Threat by shutting off my Xbox by holding the power button until it shutdown. After I restarted it I had to play a match where I met the requirements. The game didn't say I met the criteria but the achievements unlocked nonetheless.
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By ds9ds9ds9 on 24 Jul 2016 22:01
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First of all it is a very easy & good strategy based on the Starter-Box , because it is not possible to give a real solution.
The Game is based on little bit luck at the draw steps & enemys.


You can easily get these Achievements also in one Match & with this Basic Deck/Cards:

Magic DuelsRelic SeekerThe Relic Seeker achievement in Magic Duels worth 22 pointsControl five artifacts

Magic DuelsTreacherous UrgeThe Treacherous Urge achievement in Magic Duels worth 25 pointsSacrifice a creature owned by an opponent


Follow my video to build your Deck.

You can build this Deck with the Starter-Box:
We build a red/black/artefact Deck.
The Keycards are:
- 4x Bloodflow Connoisseur
(to sacrifice artefact-creatures)
- 4x Traitorous Instinct
(to take control about a creature, that the enemy owns & sacrifice it with the Bloodflow Connoisseur)
- 3x Barrage Ogre
(to sacrifice any artefact)
- all artefact cards we have

then fill your Deck with any helpfull cards till you get 40 cards.
At the end we put 20 Landcards in there too, so we get a Standart 60card Deck.

Start a Solomatch on easy.
The strategy is to get out 5 Artefacts, that we sacrifice in the Bloodflow Connoisseur & Barrage Ogre.
With the Traitorous Instinct we can get the control of a creature that the enemy own & sacrifice it into the Bloodflow Connoisseur also.
So we play more defensive till we get what we need.
There's no need to win.

You need a little bit luck for your Starthand, drawing & enemy.
It is possible (and not to hard) to get all 3 Achievements in one round like i did here, but you can do them one after another also.

Here's my full detailed Videoguide:


Step 1:
The Keycards - 00:20
Step 2:
Deckbuild - 01:21
Step 3:
Match - 05:36

Good Luck!
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20 Aug 2015 00:17

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the video is not available in your country....

could you possibly write the contents of the deck you used?
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By TheMaize on 04 Sep 2015 08:40
Hi Maize.
I have updated this guide now. I hope it helps you a bit.
It is difficult to write a full detailed guide for this. Pics says more than words. ;)
Can't you use a VPN or Proxy in China?
Greets
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By Pedegree on 04 Sep 2015 17:27
Thanks a lot pedegree..yes, we can use vpn, but most of the time they are still too slow to load a youtubevideo here. I really appreciate you taking the time. I'm sure other people will also find it useful in writing.
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By TheMaize on 05 Sep 2015 11:54
Thank you, Doc.
Well, the Solution was written at the release of the game.

Maybe now there`s another beginning at game or Starterpack with better cards now.
So much dlcs/editions has come out since start in 2015.
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By Pedegree on 11 Jun 2019 10:35
Your strategy worked like a charm for me once I got things setup. RNG and opponents were not my friend the first 10 times I tried this. Eventually I got the Panther opponent (looks like black panther beastman in armor, he doesn't have any direct damage or counter spell cards) and was able to get low mana cost flyers out (black cards) that slowly took him down to 1 HP, while the rest of my monsters kept him in check/defense positions. I was down to 25 cards by the time I got things setup waiting for one of the Ogres to finally appear.
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By DrSchlepenstein on 05 Jun 2019 01:48
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Can be unlocked in the Shadows over Innistrad story, it introduced the investigate mechanic; which is as follows "Create a colorless Clue artifact token with ‘{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."

There is more then enough cards that have this ability in the second part.(against Vampires) now with most achievements in this game you need RNGesus to be on your side. I played very slow, I could have won the fight after a few turns, but had to go through most of the deck to get the 5th card. So be patient and it will come,
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04 Jun 2019 18:55

This can be done alongside Controlled five artifacts and you need to sacrifice/tap at least 5 in one turn.

To get this quickly, play a Black deck and put on it a lot of artifact creatures. The key to this achievement is one of this creatures: "Bloodflow Connoisseur" or "Nantuko Husk" (For Nantuko you need first to unlock it by buying booster packs).

Once you have "Bloodflow Connoisseur" or "Nantuko Husk" on the battlefield and 5 other artifact creatures, activate "Bloodflow Connoisseur" or "Nantuko Husk" ability on each artifact to sacrifice them. Alternatively you can tap artifact that have the ability to tap for an X amount of mana cost. Reduce the number of creatures you need to sacrifice in a turn with "Bloodflow Connoisseur" or "Nantuko Husk" for each artifact tapped this way.

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