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After my first blog entry to the Magic: The Gathering Xbox Live game and with the new 2012 version I thought I could do it again and gather all ways to solve the challenges in the game for everyone to try them out and get the achievements for this.

Challenge: Rumble in the Jungle (vs. Garruk Wildspeaker)

Both you and Garruk have only 2 life. Using the few creatures you still have left, blunt Garruk’s final assault and defeat him.

This one is pretty easy:

• Garruk will attack you
• Block with ‘Runeclaw Bear’ and ‘Barony Vampire’
• You will know enter your Main Phase and got only 1 life left
• Play the Swamp (or just press Y to get into the Combat Phase)
• Attack with ‘Gloomhunter’

Congratulations you won your first Challenge and you got your ‘Magic: The Puzzling’ Achievement

Challenge: In the Spider’s Web (vs. Kiora Atua)

Kiora has 6 life while you only have 1. Negate Kiora’s lethal attack, then defeat her.

• Kiora will attack you with ‘Storm Crow’
• Block with your untapped ‘Furnace Whelp’
• You draw a Basic Land and play it
• Attack with both of your ‘Furnace Whelp’s
• Pause the game directly after Kiora blocked your ‘Furnace Whelp’ with her ‘Giant Spider’
• Activate the Ability of your other ‘Furnace Whelp’ and use all your Mana

more coming soon …

I did the same post some time ago. But someone mentioned that the Challenges aren’t solvable the way I wrote it. And yes after an update there are some differences.

Walkthroughs Source:
IGN.com

Main Game: (tested 10. June 2010)

Challenge 1: Garruk

• Play Angelic Blessing on Skyhunter Skermisher
• Play Angelic Blessing on Skyhunter Skermisher
• Attack with Skyhunter Skermisher

Challenge 2: Elspeth

• Play Threaten on Soul Warden
• Summon Raging Goblin
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 3: Garruk

• Use Elvish Pipers ability to summon Roughshod Mentor
• Attack with 3 Grizzly Bear’s
• Use 3 Giant Growths on a single Grizzly Bear whom is blocked by a Civic Wayfinder

Challenge 4: Chandra

• Play Megrim
• Summon Ravenous Rats
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 5: Liliana

• Summon Elven Eulogist
• Summon Elvish Warrior
• Play Eyeblight’s Ending on Nightmare
• Attack with Elvin Riders
• Stop during block step
• Use Immaculate Magistrate’s ability on Elven Riders

Challenge 6: Chandra

• Use Prodigal Pyromancer’s ability on Opponent
• Use Boomerang on Persuasion
• Use Persuasion on Raging Goblin
• Attack with Phantom Warrior and Raging Goblin

Challenge 7: Nissa

• Play Terror on Elvish Champion
• Attack with all usable creatures
• Stop during attack phase
• Use Flameblast Dragons’s ability on Sprouting Thrinax with 3 mana

Challenge 8: Liliana

• Use Incinerate on Royal Assassin
• Use Incinerate on Ravenous Rats
• Use Pariah on Platinum Angel
• Use Sangrite Surge on Knights of the Skyward Eye
• Use Knights of the Skyward Eye’s ability
• Attack with Knights of the Skyward Eye and Mistmeadow Skulk
• Stop after Knights of the Skyward Eye has dealt damage to Opponent
• Use Brion Stoutarm’s ability on Yourself with Knights of the Skyward Eye as the sacrificed creature

Expansion 1:

Challenge 1: Jace (tested 10. June 2010)

• Summon Etherium Sculptor
• Summon Master of Etherium
• Play Howling Mine
• Play Onyx Goblet
• Use Onyx Goblet’s ability
• Play Loxodon Warhammer
• Play Terror on opponent’s Wall of Air
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 2: Elspeth (tested 06. August 2010)

• Play ‘Jagged Lightning’ on Elspeth’s untapped ‘Angel of Mercy’ and your ‘Mudbutton Torchrunner’
• Target Elspeth
• Play ‘Vengeful Firebrand’
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 3: Liliana (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play a Basic Land
• Attack with ‘Ambassador Laquatus’
• Continue and Stop the Timer
• Play ‘Condemn’ on ‘Ambassador Laquatus’
• In your 2nd main Phase play ‘Kiss of the Amesha’ to gain 7 life and 2 cards
• Play ‘Wrath of God’
• In your next turn play a Basic Land
• Summon ‘Ambassador Laquatus’
• Use ‘Ambassador Laquatus’ ability 3 times and target Liliana

Expansion 2:

Challenge 1: Garruk (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play a Swamp
• Equip your ‘Vampire Nighthawk’ with your ‘Blade of the Bloodchief’
• Use ‘Disfigure’ on ‘Guul Draz Vampire’ or ‘Ruthless Cullblade’ 2 times to power up your ‘Vampire Nighthawk’
• Use ‘Feast of Blood’ on opponents ‘Giant Spider’
• Attack with ‘Vampire Nighthawk’

Challenge 2: Garruk (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play ‘Selective Memory’ and destory every card you can select
• Play ‘Tressure Hunt’
• Play a ‘Forest’
• Play ‘Primal Frenzy’ on ‘Maro’
• Attack with ‘Maro’

Challenge 3: Nicol Bolas (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play ‘Evolving Woods’ and use its ability
• Play ‘Excommunicate’ and target ‘Phage the Untouchable’
• Play ‘Brainstorm’ and keep ‘Polymorph’
• Play ‘Polymorph’ on opponents ‘Darksteel Colossus’

Challenge 4: Tezzeret (tested 07. August 2010)

• Skip your entire turn
• Skip your entire turn again. (Don’t summon ‘Lorthos, The Tidemaker’)
• After the opponents attack, you will be at 1HP. You will be asked again to summon ‘Lorthos, The Tidemaker’, do it.
• Play the ‘Island’
• Attack with ‘Lorthos, The Tidemaker’ and pick his ‘Platinum Angel’ and 7 of his Islands
• Play ‘Unsummon’ on ‘Platinum Angel’ after he got only one Island left

Challenge 5: Sarkhan Vol (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play ‘Summoner’s Pact’ and pick ‘Seedborn Muse’
• Use the ability of ‘Elvish Piper’ and pick ‘Seedborn Muse’
• Play ‘Eladamri’s Call’ and pick ‘Plated Geopede’
• Summon ‘Plated Geopede’
• On his turn stop the timer and play both of your ‘Harrow’s’ and pay with the tapped mana
• Use ‘Khalni Heart Expedition’ to grab 2 extra Land Cards
• After your ‘Plated Geopede’ is 13/13 use ‘Fling’ and sacrifice your ‘Plated Geopede’ and target Sarkhan Vol

THIS POST IS DEPRECATED BECAUSE OF MAGIC: THE GATHERING – DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKER UPDATE
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Because the challenges are really tricky I searched the internet and found some walkthroughs for the 11 challenges (8 in Duels of the Planeswalker and 3 for the extension duel of the dragon).

Challenge 1: Garruk

• Use Double Angelic Blessing on your Skyhunter Skirmisher.
• Attack with Skyhunter Skirmisher.

Challenge 2: Elspeth

• Use Threaten on the Life Warden.
• Summon the Raging Goblin.
• Attack with all your creatures.

Challenge 3: Garruk

• Use Elvish Piper to bring out the Roughshod Mentor.
• Attack with all the Grizzly Bears.
• Wait for blockers to be assigned and then use all three Giant Growth on the Grizzly Bear being blocked by the civic wayfarer.

Challenge 4: Chandra

• Play Megrim.
• Play Ravenous Rats.
• Attack with all creatures.

Challenge 5: Liliana

• Use Eyeblight’s Ending on the Nightmare.
• Play Elvish Eulogist and Elvish Warrior.
• Use Immaculate Magistrate’s ability on the Elven Riders.
• Attack with all creatures.

Challenge 6: Chandra

• Use prodigal pyromancer that was taken by Persuasion to damage opponent for one.
• Use Boomerang on Persuasion.
• Reuse Persuasion on Raging Goblin.
• Attack with all creatures.

Challenge 7: Nissa

• Use Terror on the Elvish Champion.
• Attack.
• Use the Flameblast Dragon’s ability to kill your Sprouting Thrinax.

Challenge 8: Lilana

• Play Pariah on the Angel.
• Play Wooly.
• use brion’s ability on YOURSELF using the wolly, this will kill the angel (afterward, Royal Assassin will kill Brion).
• Use one incinerate on Rat.
• Use one incinerate on opponent.
• Use Knight’s ability to pump itself up.
• Attack with your two remaining creatures.

Challenge 9: Jace

• Play: (in this order)
• Etherium Sculptor
• Master of Etherium
• Howling Mine
• Onyx Goblet
• Loxodon Warhammer (then use the ability)
• Terror (on Wall of Air)
• Attack with all possible cards

Challenge 10: Elspeth

• Play: (in this order)
• Obsidian Battle-Axe
• Bramblewood Paragon (do not equip Obsidian Battle-Axe)
• Vengeful Firebrand (equip Obsidian Battle-Axe)
• Attack with all possible cards

Challenge 11: Liliana

• Play Plains (mana card)
• Attack with Ambassador Laquatus only
• Stop the time and play Condemn on Ambassador Laquatus
• Play Kiss of the Amesha and target yourself
• Play Wrath of God
• Lilianas turn (she will play a Swamp and Nightmare)
• If its your turn again play Plains (mana card)
• Play Ambassador Laquatus and use his ability 3 times

thanks to http://www.scottking.info/ for the challenges 1-8 and ign.com for challenge 9-11.
Sources:
scottking.info
ign.com