This puzzle is a little different. It finds you low on life in your first main phase, facing a Grixis Tron player in equally dire straights. Both of you have threats that can end the game, but playing blindly into counterspells could spell doom. Maneuver around your opponent’s answers to guarantee a win on your next turn!
Player: 2 Life
Field: Putrid Leech
Lands: Thornwood Falls x2, Bojuka Bog, Forest x2, Island x3
Hand: Evolving Wilds, Enevelop, Deprive, Dredgescape Zombie,
Faerie Macabre, Pulse of Murasa
Library: Swamp
Opponent: 2 Life
Field: Prophetic Prism x2
Lands: Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, Urza's Power Plant,
Island x2, Swiftwater Cliffs x3
Hand: Remove Soul, Counterspell x2, Choking Sands, Firebolt,
Electrostatic Bolt
Library: Mountain
Solution
1. Cast Dredgescape Zombie. It doesn’t matter if it gets countered.
2. Attack with Leech. Opponent bolts it, we let it resolve.
3. Play Evolving Wilds and pass the turn.
On the opponent’s turn, they have a couple options, but it doesn’t really matter what order they do them in. We’ll assume they cast Firebolt first:
4. Crack evolving wilds and Envelop Firebolt. If the opponent fights over this, we can force through Pulse of Murasa and gain 6 life, making it impossible for them to win. When Firebolt is countered, but while Wilds is still on the stack, discard Faerie Macabre to exile Firebolt and prevent the Flashback. Find a Swamp.
5. The opponent Choking Sands one of your nonbasic lands. Respond by casting Pulse of Murasa. The opponent has to counter this or else you gain 6 and they can’t win. Respond to the counterspell with Deprive, returning the targeted nonbasic to your hand. They can respond by countering either Deprive or Pulse, but Choking Sounds fizzles regardless.
6. The opponent is out of damaging spells and passes the turn. On your turn, either attack with Dredgescape Zombie (if they didn’t counter it) or Unearth it (if they did).
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