Puzzle Garden #3 Solutions
Shards of Warped Reflection
List One: Feng Shui Sites
Nine Dragon Temple
Whirlpool of Blood
The Blue Moon Club
Fox Pass
Proving Ground
Mah-Jhongg Parlor
Moon Base
Kinoshita House
Disco
Identity Chop Shop
List Two: Unique Characters
Song the Little Dragon
Rachel McShane
Primus
Four Burning Fists
Battlechimp Potemkin
Johann Bonengel
Sky Dragon
Shao the Killer
The Baron
Ting Ting
List Three: Foundation Characters
Street Sweepers
The Pledged
Mathemagician
Sinister Priest
Big Macaque Attack
DNA Mage
Wah-Shan Clan Warriors
Shaolin Swordsman
Ice Healer
Hacker
List Four: Factions
Syndicate
Ascended
Purists
Eaters of the Lotus
Jammers
Architects of the Flesh
Seven Masters
Guiding Hand
Four Monarchs
Dragons
Royal Flush
Challenges
The biggest challenge should be obvious: you're being attacked with fifty-nine points of Fighting, and if even a single point gets through, LaGrange Four is there to unturn a character. With only twenty points of damage showing, you're going to have to work to bring those Monarchs down. As it turns out, both of Tim's events will be essential.
While the Queen of the Ice Pagoda can be killed by damage, characters will be at a premium. The King of the Fire Pagoda has a massive fighting and Toughness, so even if you intercepted him with everything, he still wouldn't die. The Queen is easier to kill, but still has Toughness. However, you can steal the Thunder King away if you can just get enough power. You can't- but Tim can.
Solution
0: Starting Power: 0. Tim has 1 Power.
1: Ask Tim to play Bull Market. Your Power: 5. Tim's Power: 6
2: Play Pump-Action Shotgun on your Earth Poisoner (or another foundation character.) Turn it to give the Earth Poisoner +3 damage. Your Power: 4. Tim's Power: 6.
3: Play Shrieking Witch heads, targetting your Wandering Monk. Use Yellow Senshi Chamber to redirect one point of damage to any target in play, it doesn't matter which.
Your Power: 3. Tim's Power: 6
3: Give Tim a power to use Chinese Connection to heal the damaged card. Your Power: 2. Tim's Power: 7
4: Play Bribery to take control of the Femme Fatale. Place her at the Nine Dragon Temple. Your Power: 1. Tim's Power: 8
5. Ask Tim to pay 8 power to take control of the King of the Thunder Pagoda. Your Power: 1. Tim's Power: 0
6. Turn the Femme Fatale to give the King of the Thunder Pagoda Mobility. It may now intercept. Ask Tim to intercept the King of the Fire Pagoda. The King of the Thunder Pagoda is smoked, and the King of the Fire Pagoda takes 10 damage. His current fighting is 11.
7. Play Amulet of the Turtle on One Hundred Names (for five points of protection) and Mysterious Return, returning the Wandering Monk to play. You now have no power.
8. Declare the following interception chains: One Hundred Names vs. Queen of the Darkness Pagoda, Iron Hands Ma, Xiang Kai, Wandering Monk vs. Queen of the Ice Pagoda, Instrument of the Hand, Sinister Priest, Femme Fatale, Earth Poisoner vs. King of the Fire Pagoda.
9. Ask Tim to play his Operation Killdeer on your One Hundred Names.
10. Combat with first interceptors: One Hundred Names takes 10 damage from the Queen, but lives thanks to the Amulet of the Turtle. Due to Operation Killdeer, it does not do any damage to the Queen of the Darkness Pagoda, so it is not toasted. The Queen stops attacking. Iron Hands Ma does 5 damage to the Queen of the Ice Pagoda. (Her current Fighting is now 7.) The Instrument of the Hand is smoked. The Pump-Action Shotgun unturns. Turn it again to give the Earth Poisoner another +3 damage. (Now +6)
11. Combat with second interceptors: Xiang Kai does 4 damage to the Queen and is smoked. (The Queen's current fighting is now 3.) The Fire King smokes the Sinister Priest. The Pump-Action Shotgun unturns. Turn it again to give the Earth Poisoner another +3 damage. (Now +9)
12. Combat with third interceptors: The Wandering Monk and the Queen of the Ice Pagoda smoke each other. The Fire King smokes the Femme Fatale. The Pump-Action Shotgun unturns. Turn it again to give the Earth Poisoner another +3 damage. (Now +12)
13. Combat with fourth interceptors: Earth Poisoner does 14 damage, reduced to 11 to the King of the Fire Pagoda, smoking him, and is smoked. There are no remaining attackers. The attack fails.