Elements Haxxor Puzzles by Essence

[Appawesome]

Krahhl's Puzzle

No pet.

Before you end:
Play 4 non-pillar cards (pillar means any quanta-producing permanent)
Play cards from 3 different elements
Have no quanta or cards left in hand

The following cards are not allowed:
Any other element cards
Zero-cost cards other than pillars

You can only use the 7 cards you started with.

Impossible.  I can't gain any quanta. (towers/pillars are free)

[ddevans96]

Krahhl's Puzzle

No pet.

Before you end:
Play 4 non-pillar cards (pillar means any quanta-producing permanent)
Play cards from 3 different elements
Have no quanta or cards left in hand

The following cards are not allowed:
Any other element cards
Zero-cost cards other than pillars
You can only use the 7 cards you started with.

Impossible.  I can't gain any quanta. (towers/pillars are free)

[smuglapse]

Krahhl's Puzzle

No pet.

Before you end:
Play 4 non-pillar cards (pillar means any quanta-producing permanent)
Play cards from 3 different elements
Have no quanta or cards left in hand

The following cards are not allowed:
Any other element cards
Zero-cost cards other than pillars

You can only use the 7 cards you started with.

Play 2 Amethyst Towers
Play 1 (Wind, Amethyst, or Bone) pillar
Play 1 Supernova
Play 1 Dragonfly or Firefly
Play 1 Animate Weapon until only 2 and 1 other remain
Play 1 Arsenic and then play Animate Weapon one more time

ddevans96 can have my turn if this is the correct answer.

[Krahhl]

Nope. Sorry.

I count each time you click a card as playing it. Though animate isn't really the same since the card doesn't disappear. (hint?) But I'll still say your solution plays 28 cards because it's not how I want you to solve it.

[RavingRabbid]

Khraaallls

Time Tower x2
Fire Tower x2
Ash eater
Rewind
Precognition

Play Ash Eater
Play Rewind
Play Precog
Play that Ash Eater again


E__E

[kurathedog]

NIIICCCEEE...
there was another solution that used precogs (but no rt) so krahl said only starting hand...
never thought of still using precogs

[Krahhl]

Krahhl's Puzzle

No pet.

Before you end:
Play 4 non-pillar cards (pillar means any quanta-producing permanent)
Play cards from 3 different elements
Have no quanta or cards left in hand

The following cards are not allowed:
Any other element cards
Zero-cost cards other than pillars

You can only use the 7 cards you started with.

...Sorry.

Getting closer I guess?

[EvaRia]

I KNOW

Krahhl's puzzle

2x burning towers
1x amethyst tower
1x time tower
1x ash eater
1x chaos seed
1x precognition

Ash Eater
Chaos Seed Reverse Time
Precog
Replay Ash Eater.

[Krahhl]

^ Win.

Really, I didn't think it would be that hard. The whole point was just to get the reverse time on chaos seed, but I didn't think I had to go as far as to specifically limit it to seven cards when I originally posted, because people kept finding other holes in my limitations.


Puzzles still out there:

kurathedog's Puzzle

End your first turn with 63 cards in deck (win coin toss)

Essence's Puzzle

Using a mono deck and starting with no pet and no zero-cost creatures in your hand, end your turn with 2 pillars and nothing else -- no creatures, cards in hand, permanents, or quanta -- and your opponent at 67 HP.

No multiple copies of any card except towers.

[Appawesome]

kurathedog's Puzzle

End your first turn with 63 cards in deck (win coin toss)

I use False God Mode Hack and start with 70 cards.

[RavingRabbid]

I KNOW

Krahhl's puzzle

2x burning towers
1x amethyst tower
1x time tower
1x ash eater
1x chaos seed
1x precognition

Ash Eater
Chaos Seed Reverse Time
Precog
Replay Ash Eater.

I didn't remember about Chaos Seed...

Heh, at least I gave a first solution.




Kurathedog's puzzle

So, I think this gets around Pandemonium. Only trouble is how to get 10 creatures to reverse. Even with a fractal, it'd require 3 creatures in starting hand.

That would mean.

2xTower
1xFractal
3xSpark
1xPandemonium


Obviously, Tower couldn't produce enough... Mh...

[Krahhl]

Yes, the trick is to pandemonium rewind, but you need to start with a pet to get 10 creatures. But even so, I can't think of a way to do it.

Pet photon
4 QT
1 Fractal
1 Pandemonium
1 Photon

Fractal only gives you 7 since the last card needs to be pandemonium, so the total is only 9.

Pet photon
3 QT
3 Pandemonium
1 Photon

With two pandemonium TUs, you still only get 8 to rewind.

There's no way to fit two pandemoniums and a fractal and still have enough quanta for it all, while there are no other ways to create creatures other than chaos seed/TU, for which you might as well just play a photon, and queen/scarab/deja vu, which can't be used on the first turn because of summoning sickness.


I have a
New Puzzle

Have as much damage output as you can before the end of your first turn, losing the coin toss. No pet.

If your number ≥ mine and the solution follows all current rules of Elements (i.e. it is possible, no matter how unlikely), you get it right.