Temmet battle

wereotter

Froggy said:

I used Tezz2, with Blightcaster and lots of supports. Go t the mechanical dude out and had destroy spells on the ready. Insidious Will and Blightcaster were the key. Underhanded Designs helped with life and continued small damage. Deadlock trap saved me from vicious attacks and also bypassed god imunity. Syndicate Trafficker kept ramping with all the 1/1 servos generated by my mechanical construct. Herald of Anguish reduced power of opponent. And unlicensed disintegration went to work. Orbs of warding was more added as "another support" to play for Blightcaster. Day's Undoing I used to fill my hand.

There. 3 mythics. 5 rares and 2 uncommon. Still had 80+ life left.

Ran the same deck for Samut and took zero damage...

Gonna have to try this.... I have more or less this deck, but never got Insidious Will

I was trying to do it with Ajani 2 lifelinkers and damage prevention

Froggy

wereotter said:

Froggy said:

I used Tezz2, with Blightcaster and lots of supports. Go t the mechanical dude out and had destroy spells on the ready. Insidious Will and Blightcaster were the key. Underhanded Designs helped with life and continued small damage. Deadlock trap saved me from vicious attacks and also bypassed god imunity. Syndicate Trafficker kept ramping with all the 1/1 servos generated by my mechanical construct. Herald of Anguish reduced power of opponent. And unlicensed disintegration went to work. Orbs of warding was more added as "another support" to play for Blightcaster. Day's Undoing I used to fill my hand.

There. 3 mythics. 5 rares and 2 uncommon. Still had 80+ life left.

Ran the same deck for Samut and took zero damage...

Gonna have to try this.... I have more or less this deck, but never got Insidious Will

I was trying to do it with Ajani 2 lifelinkers and damage prevention

Then get a spell card that will discard your opponent's first card in hand. The AI will usually move the next planned/best card to the top for playing. You will still cripple him quite a bit.

madwren

Cast Out is a very viable strategy as well.

Whammaster

I forgot what card it is in the new set but it exiles the first two cards in your opponents hand. 

Edit: whoops

madwren

Whammaster said:

I forgot what card it is in the new set but it exiles the first two cards in your opponents hand. DO NOT USE IT it never did it for me. It's broken atm.

If you mean Compelling Argument, it exiles the top two from the library, not hand. There are no cards that exile from your opponent's hand.

wereotter

Froggy said:

wereotter said:

Froggy said:

I used Tezz2, with Blightcaster and lots of supports. Go t the mechanical dude out and had destroy spells on the ready. Insidious Will and Blightcaster were the key. Underhanded Designs helped with life and continued small damage. Deadlock trap saved me from vicious attacks and also bypassed god imunity. Syndicate Trafficker kept ramping with all the 1/1 servos generated by my mechanical construct. Herald of Anguish reduced power of opponent. And unlicensed disintegration went to work. Orbs of warding was more added as "another support" to play for Blightcaster. Day's Undoing I used to fill my hand.

There. 3 mythics. 5 rares and 2 uncommon. Still had 80+ life left.

Ran the same deck for Samut and took zero damage...

Gonna have to try this.... I have more or less this deck, but never got Insidious Will

I was trying to do it with Ajani 2 lifelinkers and damage prevention

Then get a spell card that will discard your opponent's first card in hand. The AI will usually move the next planned/best card to the top for playing. You will still cripple him quite a bit.

Hmm.... not sure I have any that do the first cards in hand. Unburden doesn't say, but I assume it does the last cards in hand? Too bad I can't use Oath of Jace and Tamiyo's Journal + Ongoing Investigation to keep her under control.

Froggy

Yeah. I guess you don't have infinite obliteration? I've only seen it used on me and it effectively empties your opponent's hand...

wereotter

Froggy said:

Yeah. I guess you don't have infinite obliteration? I've only seen it used on me and it effectively empties your opponent's hand...

Nope. Transgress the Mind was the only card I know for certain that discards the first card in hand I had.

Insidious Will has been an ongoing bane chase card for me. It's one of only 3 rares I don't have from the entire block. Very frustrating.

Froggy

Sorry to hear that. Maybe a disable spell (claustrophobia) to at least keep creatures in check. Then have a destroy spell ready. I'd have Deadlock too as it has more shields just in case.

wereotter

Froggy said:

Sorry to hear that. Maybe a disable spell (claustrophobia) to at least keep creatures in check. Then have a destroy spell ready. I'd have Deadlock too as it has more shields just in case.

I have Hixus, which is the other reason I was using Ajani, but it landed on a gem the one time I drew it that the gems that fell around where it landed enabled her to destroy it the very next turn. Very annoying.

Froggy

Hm. Sounds like the beginnings of a Sorin deck... Hixus, Blightcaster, etc. could you build a strong and crippling deck to lock him down?

Damien

I managed with Nahiri and hixus. I somehow got through 3.2 with only one shield on hixus. Just sheer luck. 

scydrex

3.1 was was enough for me. Bounce, Confiscate and Hixus FTW. Have not tried 3.2 yet.

Steeme

By turn 4 the AI is already doing 60+ damage per turn.  Suppression bonds is useless since it only disables the first slot.  By the time I drew Hixus the match was over.

Can someone please explain why, in a PVE event, we are not allowed to use all of our cards?  I thought that was the entire point.

These events are clearly balanced based on our entire library, yet I am stuck using the weakest cards.  They have not dialed back the difficulty level, so why are we restricted?

Yet another buzzkill.

Edit: 3rd try this time with Dovin = successful.  Cast Out is the all-star card here, since it has 3 shields.  Cycling is required.

Tigerpawz

I beat him because I am  uber lucky. Rhonas, Gaea's Revenge and Mantle of Webs.

arNero

I finally succeeded on my third try with Sorin-lifegain + Cast Out. Cast Out is a damn good lifesaver when your board is empty due to Vindicate and Angel of Sanctions (seriously, again, whose stupid idea is it to give these already broken challenges removal cards?)

Totally not looking forward to the other two

Ohboy

My AKH dovin block deck just beat him easily on first try. 

Rares : 
Approach of second sun
Irrigated farmland

Uncommons:
Renewed faith 
Cast out
Censor

Commons:
Hieroglyphic illumination
Winged shepherd
Compelling argument 
Shimmerscale drake
Djeru's resolve 


Literally 0 mythics, and only AKH cards. The mvp being an uncommon. 

Magog

Got lucky first round with Kiora:

Creatures:
Vizier of Tumbling Sands
Shimmerscale Drake

Supports:
Drake Haven
New Perspectives
Fetid Pools

Spells:
Dissenter's Deliverance
Floodwaters
Censor
Tezzeret's Ambition
Compelling Argument

It's a bit of a cheesy strategy, get Drake Haven and New Perspectives out, then cycle to build up a huge mass of tokens before Temmet can put out enough damage.  Tezzeret's Ambition is there to help you find those two cards quicker, but you really need a large number of cycle cards to keep the chain going.  I wouldn't call any of the other cards essential, but Floodwaters can be surprisingly useful to keep your opponent from doing damage to you.

I'm also going to try a similar strategy with Saheeli, except add Skysovereign in there for another win condition.

Szamsziel

You were lucky to not crash game with Drake Haven.

_Daromax_

My advice is: Hixus and pray  Fortunately I managed to beat it with this deck.

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGS4mSA_Ws4

However, I don't know why gonti stole only one card at the begining of the game and why my aetherborn marauder was disabled.