Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Expansion #1 Into the Pod Challenge Solution

The fifth new challenge for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Expansion #1 is "Into the Pod"

Use Birthing Pod(s) to power up your attack and beat Krenkos this turn.

1. Reverse the Assault
2. Exalted Army
3. Drake Expectations
4. Stolen Goods
5. Obliterate This!
6. Say Your Praetors
   • Black
   • Blue
   • Green
   • Red
   • White
7. Desperate Measures
8. Sculpting the Perfect Warrior
9. Replica's Revolt
10. Goblin Raiding

Expansion 1 Challenges

1. Jitte Choices
2. Curses!
3. Golem Defeat
4. Deadman's Gamble
5. Into the Pod

• List of all Magic: DotP 2013 & 2014 Challenges

Life
10

Cards in Play
2x Forest, 2x Islands, 2x Mountains, 2x Swamps
Birthing Pod
Blind Zealot
Dross Scorpion
Primeval Titan
Runeclaw Bear
Urabrask the Hidden
Vorapede

Cards in Hand
Unsummon

Life
7

Cards in Play
2x Islands, 2x Mountains, 4x Plains, 4x Swamps
Blightsteel Colossus
Grave Titan
Sphinx of Jwar Isle
2x Zombie Token

Cards in Hand
None

Step 1: Use Birthing Pod on Dross Scorpion. Use Dross Scorpion's death ability to untap Birthing Pod. Summon Hoarding Dragon using the Birthing Pod's ability. Using Hoarding Dragon's summon ability grab a second Birthing Pod. (At the end of this the Dross Scorpion is dead, you have an untapped Birthing Pod in play, and a Hoarding Dragon which is exiling a second Birthing Pod)

Step 2: Use your Birthing Pod on Hoarding Dragon. Summon Geralf's Mindcrusher with the Birthing Pod's ability. Have Geralf's Mindcrusher target Izzet, putting the top five cards of his library into his graveyard (these cards are inconsequential, ignore them for now). The exiled Birthing Pod will come to your hand since Hoarding Dragon died.

Step 3: Play the second Birthing Pod from your hand.

Step 4: Activate the second Birthing Pod, sacrificing the Geralf's Mindcrusher. Thanks to Undying, Geralf's Mindcrusher will immediately come back into play; use his ability on Izzet once more. Summon Chancellor of the Spires with Birthing Pod's ability.

Step 5: Using Chancellor of the Spires' summon ability check Izzet's graveyard and cast False Cure.

Step 6: Attack with everything (pick two random lands for Primeval Titan's effect, it doesn't matter which). Izzet will die since all the life gained from True Conviction will be turned into damage instead.