Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

21 Achievements

125-153h

PS3

Madness Suppressed

Defeat Sarkhan the Mad in the single-player campaign (Expansion 3)

Silver

Very Rare

5.8%

How to unlock the Madness Suppressed achievement in Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers - Definitive Guide

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10 Jan 2011 18:57

Beat Sarkan the Mad for the second time in the campain (level 8). You can do it in the lower difficulty setting.

He uses a Black/Red deck that is not as good as some of the decks that you have if you own the other expansion packs. See below for an option if you don`t have the other packs.

Fast decks that can kill creatures are the ones that are effective against him. I beat him miserably using the Relics of Doom deck and the Ears of the Elves deck was also effective. Other decks you may try are the Eyes of Shadow (use Terror to kill his Red creatures and Mind Rot to keep his hand empty) and Heat of Battle (just burn everything he summons).

A less effective option is the Thoughts of Wind deck if you manage to have counters for the big creatures he summons.

10 Jan 2011 18:57

8 Comments

By the way, this guy can not be decked using mind of void. He's got two cheap cards that reshuffle his entire graveyard back into his deck if they land in it. Cheap as all hell.

By DURDENS WRATH on 25 Apr 2011 04:39

Yeah for the longest time I had my game on Arch Mage instead of just Mage. This whole Expansion Pack is a rip off. They just hurried through it and threw some garbage matches up and released it. Nothing fun about it. Really getting sick of piss poor companies doing this in games. They have to get their extra dollar. I would really have just rather paid for the achievements.

By Hexa Fox on 17 Aug 2012 04:37

I had somewhat more trouble with Ears of the Elves even on Mage difficulty; maybe I got unlucky, or maybe I just suck. :) You do need to kill him fairly fast, so if you get an initial draw that has a bunch of the more expensive booster creatures or a bunch of non-creature spells, you may want to draw again. Unless he's almost dead by the sixth or seventh round when he starts popping out dragons, you're going to have a rough time.

Don't forget to remove the blue-only enchantment from the deck if you have it maxed out, and I would also remove all the life-gaining artifacts. If you're in a grind fight where the few points of health matter, you're probably in trouble anyway.

By Sindarin Eagle on 16 Dec 2012 23:54

Ears of the Elves worked fine for me :)

By MAOraNza on 08 Mar 2011 09:13

I'd tried several decks (all my decks are fully unlocked) and failed with each one (though I came veeerrrrry close twice with Eyes of Shadow and once with Wings of Light). I Battered him senseless on my first attempt with Ears of the Elves :-)

By Makker on 15 Mar 2011 15:14

Went down both times without much of a fight using Ears of the Elves.

By damcrac on 03 Sep 2011 15:16

I really recommend Ears of the Elves to anyone struggling with this fight. Solution helped so thumbs up ;)

By The Fury I84I on 15 Feb 2013 15:46

Ears of the Elves FTW. I got it on my first try. I had 15 cards unlocked and Coat of Arms was sideboarded.

By SANDROCKLQ on 23 Jun 2015 03:22

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Sarkhan's final deck is is built around his Eldrazi (huge endgame creatures) and dragons using Solemn Simulacrum to accelerate his land drops and several removal spells to hold off until he has the required mana to play these massive creatures. Another card to look out for and which must be dealt with before its effect kicks in is Dragonmaster Outcast. The best counter would be a quick kill deck with several flying creatures and removal spells so the Relics of Doom deck would be the ideal choice, but again use whatever deck you feel comfortable using. You can also reduce the difficulty to easy if needed and don't be afraid to mulligan or reset to get a good opening hand. Once you defeat Sarkhan's final deck, you'll unlock the achievement and Sorin Markov's vampire deck, Master of Shadows.