Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

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Puzzling Master

Puzzling Master

Complete all challenges

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

CHALLENGE 1
Cast both Angelic Blessings on Skyhunter Skirmisher, then attack with it.

CHALLENGE 2
Cast Threaten on the Soul Warden. Cast Raging Goblin. Attack with everything.

CHALLENGE 3
Use Elvish Piper to put Roughshod Mentor in play. Attack with everything. Once the opponent declares blockers, cast all three Giant Growths onto a single Grizzly Bear that's blocked by one of the Civic Wayfinders.

CHALLENGE 4
Cast Megrim. Cast Ravenous Rats. Attack with everything.

CHALLENGE 5
Cast Elvish Warrior and Elvish Eulogist. Cast Eyeblight's Ending on the opponent's Nightmare. Use Immaculate Magistrate to put counters on Elven Riders. Attack with Elven Riders.

CHALLENGE 6
Use Prodigal Pyromancer to do 1 damage to your opponent. Boomerang the Persuasion on the Prodigal Pyromancer. Cast Persuasion on your opponent's Raging Goblin. Attack with Raging Goblin and Phantom Warrior.

CHALLENGE 7
Cast Terror on the Elvish Champion. Attack with everything, but as soon as you press Y to confirm the attack, press X to stop the countdown. Now use Flameblast Dragon to deal 3 damage to your own Sprouting Thrinax.

CHALLENGE 8
Cast Incinerate on the Royal Assassin. Cast Incinerate on the Ravenous Rats. Cast Pariah on Platinum Angel. Cast Sangrite Surge on Knight of the Skyward Eye, then use Knight of the Skyward Eye's ability to give itself +3/+3. Attack with Knight of the Skyward Eye and Mistmeadow Skulk. When you get to the damage step, your opponent's Dread will sparkle. Press X to stop the countdown. Use Brion Stoutarm's ability, sacrificing Knight of the Skyward Eye, dealing damage to YOURSELF.

Notes:
When I say "attack with everything," there may be some creatures who can't attack this turn, obviously they won't be attacking.

Sometimes you need to make unintuitive choices, such as damaging yourself. You may need to turn off "simplified targeting" in the options menu so you are given these choices.
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McBeilby, I am having the same problem. It seems to glitch a different way every time even... I had her down to -7 (or -8 I think) and somehow she still wins... makes no sense... I can't get the dang achievement because of the bugs in this game and the developer still has not put out a patch to fix these problems... ridiculous if you ask me. I heard something about an expansion and all I have to say is they better fix the current problems before putting out new content! sheesh.
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By MrARMBARS TV on 29 Sep 2009 22:42
brilliant, some things took a while to figure out but good guide man.
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By on 20 Jun 2009 05:17
Norvy, I would have NEVER figured this out if it weren't for you. I knew that I needed to kill the Platinum, and I knew how, but I didn't know how to kill Liliana the rest of the way. Excellent work.
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By Hoffman on 20 Jun 2009 06:14
Wow . this worked perfect ! I never would have gotten #8
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By Nerf Stairs on 21 Jun 2009 10:54
I did 7 and 8 diffently. 7 was broken for me, I thought I needed to go the route with blasting my own Thrinax but was somehow able to kill him by attacking with everything and not doing that.

For 8 if I remember right, I used both incinerates on the angel, then I boosted knight with something, then I boosted him again with his own ability. Then I attacked with all but Brion. When blockers were assigned and he triggered to use his assassin, I sacked it with Brion.
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By Skelix on 21 Jun 2009 13:20
LOL, I shoulda looked here when I was actually doing the challenges, took me forever to figure out the raging goblin had haste
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By Shtonorah on 23 Jun 2009 08:15
7 is broken for me- i have only 2 mountains and it automaticly uses one when i cast Terror
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By Tactical Rapt0r on 25 Jun 2009 19:20
I'm so stupid. I was directing the damage to her and not to myself to get rid of the platinum angel. doh. Got it now though lol - thanks everyone!
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By MrARMBARS TV on 30 Sep 2009 05:58
Great solution
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By Dark Lord White on 12 Jan 2010 00:27
challenge 5 is wrong order, now they select the wrong mana, you should first use one of the two elves instead of the assasin
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By lord verh on 25 Jun 2010 16:59
#7 should be updated to read:

Cast Terror on the Elvish Champion. Attack with everything. When prompted where you want the damage for Flameblast Dragon to be targeted, select "Creatures". Now use Flameblast Dragon to deal 3 damage to your own Sprouting Thrinax.

There is no need to pause the timer and if you select "player" when prompted you will lose (obviously).
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By JMJimmy on 27 Nov 2010 18:36
used a mashup of this solution and the one below, got there in the end.
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By Dezzie K on 16 Dec 2010 05:58
good job solutions worked great thanks.
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By Billamus on 04 Feb 2011 05:46
great guide cant believe some idiots gave it thumbs down
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By ProudBowdy on 16 Apr 2011 21:54
Got it, yeah #8 was confusing, but once I went and read over it verbatim it was perfect. I forgot to activate the knights ability the first go,(it's worded kinda tricky in the description) and then the second go i forgot to deal damage to myself to knock out the platinum angel. Ugh, it's 4AM, i'm goin to bed. Great guide!
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By Case Dang It on 20 Apr 2011 08:16
Norvy, excellent guide, but I think that JMJimmy's description for #7 helps a little bit more. Still, this guide is extremely helpful!!!
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By Hillenmeyer1 on 04 Aug 2011 19:50
Thanks man, great guide, very easy to follow, cheers!
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By TEEROY 34 on 06 Oct 2011 14:51
i just wanna mention i get the Devastator cheevo when i did the flamebast dragon on my own sprouting thinax thing on 7
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By Panzerdrako7 on 10 Dec 2017 13:53
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By Aerodynamo on 02 Jul 2009 19:35
#8 was glitched for me, my opponent using your solution was left with -2 (ithink) & I had 10 but it still gave the win to Liliana. I use the other solution w/ the link to Xbox.com forums & won first try, but 4-7 work awesomely, thanks.
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By KaNaDiaNPaLaDiN on 07 Jul 2009 14:12
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Again, another straightforward achievement. Just finish all the Puzzle Challenges that you can do, and you will unlock the achievement.

A guide to completing the challenges can be found here.
 
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