Challenge

Win as quickly as possible using only cards from Homelands.

You have perfect luck. For example, even after you shuffle your library, it’s ordered how you want. You may not assume anything about your opponent’s hand or library except that he won’t do anything relevant.

Winning “quickly” refers to both the turn of the game and whether you’re playing or drawing first. Turn three on the draw is quicker than turn four on the play but not as quick as turn three on the play.

Send your solutions to nex342+puzzle at gmail dot com with the subject line “Puzzle – Savage Homelands”, and I’ll include the best ones in next week’s article along with the next puzzle!

Good luck!

Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle

There was quite a response to the puzzle last week! I’ll be sure to do more puzzles like it in the future. The fastest anyone was able to do was turn one on the draw, and the first such solution was sent in by Matt Warns:

Play	Life	Mana	Cards in Hand
	20		8
Forest	20		7
Fastbond	20		6
Swamp	19		5
Forest	18		4
Squandered Resources, sacrifice both lands	18		3
Play and sacrifice two Swamps	16		1
Yawgmoth's Bargain, draw ten cards	6		10
Play and sacrifice one Island, one Forest, and three Plains	1		5
Illusions of Grandeur	21		4
Play and sacrifice two Plains	19		2
Aysen Highway	19		1
Opalescence	19		0
Draw a card, sacrifice the original Forest	17		1
Concordant Crossroads, attack for 20	17		0