This puzzle finds you in a tense game three. Your hateful opponent has sided in Standard Bearers to nullify your aggressive strategy, and hopes to stall until they can finish you off with direct damage. Break through their defenses and win this turn!
Player: 2 Life
Field: Quirion Ranger, Nettle Sentinel (tapped), Horned Kavu (tapped)
Lands: Forest, Island x2, Mountain x2
Hand: Echoing Truth, Flame Slash, Wrangle, Hurly-Burly,
Groundswell, Rancor
Opponent: 10 Life
Field: Standard Bearer x2, Thraben Inspector, Curse of Chains (on Kavu)
Lands: Island, Plains, Mountain
Hand: Ghostly Flicker
Library: Thunderous Wrath
Solution
1. Cast Wrangle on Standard Bearer.
2. If the opponent Ghostly Flickers, Echoing Truth Standard Bearer. If they don’t, Echoing Truth your newly wrangled Standard Bearer. Either way, there are no more flagbearers on the field.
3. Rancor Kavu, untapping Nettle Sentinel. Untap Kavu with Quirion Ranger and replay the forest.
4. Attack with all. Groundswell for lethal regardless of how the opponent blocks.
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