This puzzle continues our exploration of the Modern Masters rarity downshifts, and finds you in your first main phase, across the table from a particularly smug Rhystic Tron player who believes they’ve locked you out of the game. Prove them wrong by winning this turn!
Player: 1 Life
Field: Rendclaw Trow, Falkenrath Noble w/ +1/+1 Counter,
Deathspore Thallid w/ 2 Spore Counters, 3x 1/1 Green Saproling
Lands: Swamp x3, Forest x4
Hand: Shrivel, Exhume, Disturbing Plot, Grim Affliction, Scatter the Seeds
Graveyard: Shambling Shell, Ivy Lane Denizen
Opponent: 16 Life
Field: Mulldrifter, Sea Gate Oracle, Lone Missionary, Rhystic Circle
Lands: 2x Urza's Tower, 2x Urza's Mine, 2x Urza's Power Plant
Library: Mnemonic Wall, Ghostly Flicker
Graveyard: Stonehorn Dignitary
Solution
1. Convoke Scatter the Seeds (6 saprolings)
2. Cast Grim Affliction, putting a -1/-1 counter on Sea Gate Oracle and proliferating the Spore counter and -1/-1 counter
3. Remove 3 spore counters to create a 6th saproling
4. Cast Exhume, returning Shambling Shell and Stonehorn Dignitary
5. Sacrifice 2 Saprolings to kill the Trow (13 life left). Sacrifice Shambling Shell to remove the -1/-1 counter from the Trow (12 life). Sacrifice 2 more Saprolings to kill it again (9 life).
6. Sacrifice the remaining 3 saprolings to give the Noble -2/-2, and Mulldrifter -1/-1 (6 life).
7. Cast Shrivel, killing Noble, Thallid, Trow, SGO, Mulldrifter and Missionary, draining the remaining 6 life for lethal.
Pauper Puzzles 
Play Scatter the Seed, using convoke to tap 5 creatures to pay for its cost to generate 3 Saproling tokens.
Sac 2 Saprolings to Deathspore Thallid to kill Rendclaw (3 damage to opponent). He persists and returns with a -1/-1 counter.
Grim Affliction (paying BGG) on Sea Gate Oracle, then proliferate its and Rendclaw’s counters and the Thallid’s spore counter, killing Rendclaw and sending him to the graveyard, no persist (1 damage to opponent).
Create a Saproling with Thallid’s 3 counters, leaving us with 5 Saprolings.
Exhume (paying BG) Rendclaw and Stonehorn.
Sac 5 Saprolings to give -2/-2 to Rendclaw (killing and persisting him), -1/-1 to Mulldrifter, and -2/-2 to Falkenrath Noble (6 damage to opponent).
Shrivel (paying our last BG) to -1/-1 and kill Rendclaw, Mulldrifter, Sea Gate Oracle, Falkenrath Noble, Deathspore Thallid, and Kor Missionary (6 damage to opponent).
Total: 16 damage
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Easy. You just call a judge, your opponent is casting blue and white spells with colorless mana. That will teach that smug loser a lesson : ) …now i’ll go back to working on the actual solution haha
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