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I really didn’t expect that Threaten would work on untapped creatures, but I guess the non-explicit wording permits it.

Solution:

Shared Animosity means you want a lot of tribal to do big damage and with Threaten, one might be tempted to grab their shamans to boost your own. Unfortunately this won’t do nearly enough damage. The trick here is to play Sparkspitter and Threaten it so that you can use it’s ability to get another Spark Elemental out and trample down your opponent.

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Another puzzle which, like the previous one, can be quite unintuitive.

This puzzle actually had quite a few versions due to some mistakes on card wording. The original had a Magus of the Arena and was totally cooler, but what can you do?

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We introduced quite a few distractions to the solution of the puzzle, obfuscating the one key point without which the puzzle is unsolvable.

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While playing some constructed MTG with my friend, we came across an interesting situation where he had a possible win, though neither of us noticed until the end of the game which occurred quite a few turns later.

We decided others might enjoy a chance to figure this out, albeit in a different form to possibly obfuscate and hopefully enrich the situation. Also, the actual game was a bit more complicated as there was no immediate pressure to win within a couple of turns – unlike in the puzzle presented below:

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