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== Overview ==
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'''Story Mode''' is a set of battles against pre-constructed enemy decks which teach the [[Abilities|game mechanics]] introduced with most [[set]]s, provide challenges (especially for new players), and give [[resources]] and [[card]] rewards.  Story Mode content is always available in ''[[Magic: the Gathering Puzzle Quest]]''.
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'''Story Mode''' is a set of battles against pre-constructed enemy decks which teach [[Abilities|game mechanics]], provide challenges (especially for new players), and give rewards.  Story Mode content is always available in ''[[Magic: the Gathering Puzzle Quest]]''.
 
  
 
Beating the first chapter of the [[#Origins|Origins]] story using [[Nissa, Sage Animist]] unlocks [[Events]] and [[Coalition]] game content.
 
Beating the first chapter of the [[#Origins|Origins]] story using [[Nissa, Sage Animist]] unlocks [[Events]] and [[Coalition]] game content.
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=== Origins ===
 
=== Origins ===
 
:''Main article: [[Origins (Story)]]''
 
:''Main article: [[Origins (Story)]]''
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The Origins story features battles of increasing difficulty.  In each battle, all of the opponents' cards are from the [[Origins]] set.
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The Origins story features battles of increasing difficulty.  In each battle, all of the opponents' cards are from the [[Origins]] set. This is where new accounts begin.
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All four [[Objectives]] give [[Resources]] as [[#Rewards|Rewards]]. Winning earns mana runes and opens up the next battle for play - this objective is unlisted. Winning a given battle once with a Planeswalker of each of the five colors earns 10 Mana Crystals. A third objective, the second listed, earns mana runes, and the final objective earns 15 Mana Crystals.
  
 
=== Training ===
 
=== Training ===
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=== Battle for Zendikar ===
 
=== Battle for Zendikar ===
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The Battle for Zendikar story features a tutorial (similar to Training) plus further chapters of increasing difficulty.  The enemies' [[deck]]s in the tutorial consist of mostly [[BFZ]] and some [[Origins]] cards, unlike in the Chapters, which are only BfZ cards.
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The [[Battle for Zendikar (Story)|Battle for Zendikar story]] features a tutorial (similar to Training) plus further chapters of increasing difficulty.  The enemies' [[deck]]s in the tutorial consist of mostly [[BFZ]] and some [[Origins]] cards, unlike in the Chapters, which are only BfZ cards.
  
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* Learn the Basics
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Battle for Zendikar gives the most crystals of any of the Story sections: 20 for winning a battle with Planeswalkers of all five colors.
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Bosses - Mechanics - Rewards
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#Deathless Behemoth - {{Ability|Rally}} and {{Ability|Ally}} - Chasm Guide
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* [[BFZ - Learn the Basics|Learn the Basics]]
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#Breaker of Armies - {{Ability|Landfall}} and {{Ability|Converge}} - Geyserfield Stalker
 
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#Desolation Twin - {{Ability|Awaken}} - Sheer Drop
 
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#Nissa, Sage Animist - {{Ability|Devoid}}, {{Ability|Ingest}}, and {{Ability|Processor}} - Benthic Infiltrator
 
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#Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger - Recap of previous abilities - [[BFZ]] Booster pack
 
  
 
* [[Battle for Zendikar - Chapter 1]]
 
* [[Battle for Zendikar - Chapter 1]]
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Kozilek's Channeler, The Eldrazi Desolation, Conduit of Ruin, Swarm Surge, Bane of Bala Ged, Desolation Twin, Incubator Drone, Forerunner of Slaughter, Blight Herder, Silent Skimmer.
 
  
 
* [[Battle for Zendikar - Chapter 2]]
 
* [[Battle for Zendikar - Chapter 2]]
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Mist Intruder, Smothering Abomination, Deathless Behemoth, Kozilek's Sentinel, Culling Drone, Blisterpod, Murk Strider, Tide Drifter, Endless One, Vile Aggregate.
 
  
 
* [[Battle for Zendikar - Chapter 3]]
 
* [[Battle for Zendikar - Chapter 3]]
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Sire of Stagnation, Void Attendant, Barrage Tyrant, Void Winnower, Dust Stalker, Herald of Kozilek, Oblivion Sower, Brood Monitor, Breaker of Armies, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger.
 
  
 
=== Heroic Encounters ===
 
=== Heroic Encounters ===
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Each level starts with the enemy getting some sort of advantage in the form of creatures and/or supports that are in play before the battle begins.  
 
Each level starts with the enemy getting some sort of advantage in the form of creatures and/or supports that are in play before the battle begins.  
  
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The [[Runes|Mana Rune]] rewards for winning the game and completing objectives are unusually high: 1760 or more.
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The [[Runes|Mana Rune]] rewards for winning the game and completing objectives are unusually high: 1760 or more. Subsequent win Rune rewards are also the highest of Story mode, at 250. Heroic Encounters gives 15 Crystals for winning a battle with Planeswalkers of all five colors.
  
 
== Strategies ==
 
== Strategies ==
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* The [[#Training|Training]] section should be given a high priority; it is designed to teach players the mechanics of the game and it earns card rewards which are needed for [[Events]] and later sections of the Origins Story games.
 
* The [[#Training|Training]] section should be given a high priority; it is designed to teach players the mechanics of the game and it earns card rewards which are needed for [[Events]] and later sections of the Origins Story games.
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* Some Training chapters are harder; some are easier or more lucrative. An example of the latter is the [[War of the Spark]] chapter, completion of which yields five {{Ability|Vanguard}} cards, three of them Green, which are quite powerful early on.
 
* Some Training chapters are harder; some are easier or more lucrative. An example of the latter is the [[War of the Spark]] chapter, completion of which yields five {{Ability|Vanguard}} cards, three of them Green, which are quite powerful early on.
  
 
* Since the player is not using their own Planeswalker, there is no damage done that has to be healed in the event of a loss, and the card order is not fixed for some of the hardest games, so they can potentially be attempted repeatedly. But on the other hand, for those who prefer to pick the lowest hanging fruit first, the games will forever be there to try again, until completed.
 
* Since the player is not using their own Planeswalker, there is no damage done that has to be healed in the event of a loss, and the card order is not fixed for some of the hardest games, so they can potentially be attempted repeatedly. But on the other hand, for those who prefer to pick the lowest hanging fruit first, the games will forever be there to try again, until completed.
  
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* All rewards in a single Story mode battle can be earned in two games.  To do this, you would meet the two optional objectives in addition to using a three color planeswalker (such as [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]]) in a first game, and an opposing two color planeswalker (such as [[Huatli, Radiant Champion]]) in a second game to meet all five color objectives.
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=== 5 colors in 2 games ===
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All rewards in a single Story mode battle can be earned in two games.  To do this, you would meet the two optional objectives in addition to using a three color planeswalker (such as [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]]) in a first game, and another two or three color planeswalker (such as [[Huatli, Radiant Champion]] or [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]) in a second game to meet all five color objectives.
  
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As of the 2022 [[Streets of New Capenna]] set, all of the two-planeswalker combinations which cover all 5 colors are:
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An incomplete list of the two-planeswalker combinations which cover all 5 colors:
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
! colspan="2" | First planeswalker
 
! colspan="2" | First planeswalker
 
! colspan="2" | Second planeswalker
 
! colspan="2" | Second planeswalker
 
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|-
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUR}}
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| rowspan="3" | {{Color Icons|WUB}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Narset of the Ancient Way]]
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| rowspan="3" | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BG}}
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|GR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | One of [[Garruk, Cursed Huntsman]], [[Nissa of Shadowed Boughs]], [[Vraska, Golgari Queen]], or [[Vraska, Relic Seeker]]
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Arlinn, the Pack's Hope]], [[Domri, Chaos Bringer]], [[Samut, the Tested]], or [[Wrenn and Six]]
 
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|-
 
| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|URG}}
 
| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|URG}}
 
| style="border-left:0px" | [[Sarkhan Unbroken]]
 
| style="border-left:0px" | [[Sarkhan Unbroken]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WB}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | One of [[Daxos the Returned]], [[Kaya, Orzhov Usurper]], [[Kaya, the Inexorable]], [[Kaya, Geist Hunter]], or [[Sorin, Grim Nemesis]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Lord Windgrace]]
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| rowspan="2"  | {{Color Icons|WUR}}
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| rowspan="2" | [[Narset of the Ancient Way]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Garruk, Cursed Huntsman]], [[Nissa of Shadowed Boughs]], [[Vraska, Golgari Queen]], or [[Vraska, Relic Seeker]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Lord Windgrace]]
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| rowspan="4" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}
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| rowspan="4" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Angrath, the Flame-Chained]], [[Ob Nixilis, the Adversary]], [[Sarkhan the Mad]], or [[Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WBR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|UBR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]], [[Nicol Bolas, the Ravager]], or [[Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Lord Windgrace]]
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| rowspan="2" | {{Color Icons|WBR}}
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| rowspan="2" | [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|UG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" |
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[[Kasmina, Enigma Sage]], [[Kiora, Master of the Depths]], [[Nissa, Steward of the Elements]], [[Oko, Thief of Crowns]] a
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or [[Tamiyo, Compleated Sage]]
 
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}
 
| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}
 
| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]
 
| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BR}}
 
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| style="border-left:0px" | One of [[Angrath, the Flame-Chained]], [[Ob Nixilis, the Adversary]], [[Sarkhan the Mad]], or [[Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor]]
 
 
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|-
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|UBR}}
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| rowspan="2" | {{Color Icons|UBR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | One of [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]], [[Nicol Bolas, the Ravager]], or [[Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God]]
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| rowspan="2" | [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]], [[Nicol Bolas, the Ravager]], or [[Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God]]
 
| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WG}}
 
| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | One of [[Ajani, Unyielding]], [[Calix, Destiny's Hand]], or [[Huatli, Radiant Champion]]
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Ajani, Unyielding]], [[Calix, Destiny's Hand]], or [[Huatli, Radiant Champion]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]
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| rowspan="3" | {{Color Icons|URG}}
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| rowspan="3" | [[Sarkhan Unbroken]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WB}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Daxos the Returned]], [[Kaya, Orzhov Usurper]], [[Kaya, the Inexorable]], [[Kaya, Geist Hunter]], or [[Sorin, Grim Nemesis]]
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| style="border-right:0px"  | {{Color Icons|WUB}}
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| style="border-left:0px"  | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WBR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]]
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| rowspan="5" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}
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| rowspan="5" | [[Lord Windgrace]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WU}}
 
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUB}}
 
| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUB}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|GR}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Arlinn, the Pack's Hope]], [[Domri, Chaos Bringer]], [[Samut, the Tested]], or [[Wrenn and Six]]
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| style="border-right:0px" |{{Color Icons|WUR}}
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| style="border-left:0px"   | [[Narset of the Ancient Way]]
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| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}
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| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]
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Latest revision as of 20:45, 1 November 2024

  • EventsStoryPlaneswalkersCardsGuides

Story Mode is a set of battles against pre-constructed enemy decks which teach the game mechanics introduced with most sets, provide challenges (especially for new players), and give resources and card rewards. Story Mode content is always available in Magic: the Gathering Puzzle Quest.

Beating the first chapter of the Origins story using Nissa, Sage Animist unlocks Events and Coalition game content.

Story Mode was the only content available when the game was originally released in 2015.

Rewards

Resources are given as rewards for each game played in Story mode. In addition to the Runes awarded for every game played (more for winning, naturally), Runes are earned for winning while completing the first optional objective. Crystals are earned by completing the second optional objective, and afterwards, by winning the same battle once with Planeswalkers of every color. Winning with colorless Planeswalkers does not advance the "win with every color" objective, but multiple-color Planeswalkers give a win for all of their colors.

Even though Story Mode battles are functionally equivalent to PvE battles, Story Mode is not considered a PvE event, and so games won do not count towards Quests that tally PvE wins.

Story Mode Levels

Story Mode has four levels, navigated via the arrows facing right and left at the top of the Story Mode screen. Each level has at least 4 chapters, and each chapter has up to 20 battles.

Story mode level Set(s) Number of Chapters Total Number of Battles
Origins (Story) Origins Origins 6 79
Training (Story) Shadows over Innistrad Kaladesh Amonkhet Hour of Devastation Ixalan Rivals of Ixalan Dominaria Core Set 2019 Guilds of Ravnica Ravnica Allegiance War of the Spark Core Set 2020 Throne of Eldraine Theros Beyond Death Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Core Set 2021 Zendikar Rising Puzzle Masters Kaldheim Strixhaven Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Innistrad: Midnight Hunt 22 73
Battle for Zendikar (Story) Battle for Zendikar Battle for Zendikar 4 35
Heroic Encounters (Story) Origins Origins 6 30

Origins

Main article: Origins (Story)

The Origins story features battles of increasing difficulty. In each battle, all of the opponents' cards are from the Origins set. This is where new accounts begin.

All four Objectives give Resources as Rewards. Winning earns mana runes and opens up the next battle for play - this objective is unlisted. Winning a given battle once with a Planeswalker of each of the five colors earns 10 Mana Crystals. A third objective, the second listed, earns mana runes, and the final objective earns 15 Mana Crystals.

Training

Main article: Training (Story)

The Training story features short chapters with specially designed battles to introduce players to the new mechanics of specific Card sets. The player is given pre-fabricated decks in these battles, including cards that they may not own or see elsewhere for quite some time.

Many Training chapters provide cards as rewards, and in some cases Card packs, from the corresponding card set. Like all new cards, these are helpful for players to improve their Decks and manage their Mastery level.

Battle for Zendikar

The Battle for Zendikar story features a tutorial (similar to Training) plus further chapters of increasing difficulty. The enemies' decks in the tutorial consist of mostly BFZ and some Origins cards, unlike in the Chapters, which are only BfZ cards.

Battle for Zendikar gives the most crystals of any of the Story sections: 20 for winning a battle with Planeswalkers of all five colors.

Heroic Encounters

Main article: Heroic Encounters

Heroic Encounters feature a set of relatively high difficulty story battles, corresponding to the five Origins planeswalkers.

Heroic Encounters starts locked, and is unlocked by completing the Win the Game objective of every node in Chapter 1, Parts 1 and 2.

Each level starts with the enemy getting some sort of advantage in the form of creatures and/or supports that are in play before the battle begins.

The Mana Rune rewards for winning the game and completing objectives are unusually high: 1760 or more. Subsequent win Rune rewards are also the highest of Story mode, at 250. Heroic Encounters gives 15 Crystals for winning a battle with Planeswalkers of all five colors.

Strategies

  • Early on, play to win and run through the initial rewards, as you will not have the card collections to meet all of the objectives early.
  • The Training section should be given a high priority; it is designed to teach players the mechanics of the game and it earns card rewards which are needed for Events and later sections of the Origins Story games.
  • Some Training chapters are harder; some are easier or more lucrative. An example of the latter is the War of the Spark chapter, completion of which yields five Vanguard Vanguard cards, three of them Green, which are quite powerful early on.
  • Since the player is not using their own Planeswalker, there is no damage done that has to be healed in the event of a loss, and the card order is not fixed for some of the hardest games, so they can potentially be attempted repeatedly. But on the other hand, for those who prefer to pick the lowest hanging fruit first, the games will forever be there to try again, until completed.

5 colors in 2 games

All rewards in a single Story mode battle can be earned in two games. To do this, you would meet the two optional objectives in addition to using a three color planeswalker (such as Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh) in a first game, and another two or three color planeswalker (such as Huatli, Radiant Champion or Tamiyo, Field Researcher) in a second game to meet all five color objectives.

An incomplete list of the two-planeswalker combinations which cover all 5 colors:

First planeswalker Second planeswalker
WhiteBlueBlack Dakkon, Shadow Slayer GreenRed Arlinn, the Pack's Hope, Domri, Chaos Bringer, Samut, the Tested, or Wrenn and Six
BlueRedGreen Sarkhan Unbroken
BlackRedGreen Lord Windgrace
WhiteBlueRed Narset of the Ancient Way BlackGreen Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, Nissa of Shadowed Boughs, Vraska, Golgari Queen, or Vraska, Relic Seeker
BlackRedGreen Lord Windgrace
WhiteBlueGreen Tamiyo, Field Researcher BlackRed Angrath, the Flame-Chained, Ob Nixilis, the Adversary, Sarkhan the Mad, or Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
WhiteBlackRed Dihada, Binder of Wills
BlueBlackRed Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, or Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
BlackRedGreen Lord Windgrace
WhiteBlackRed Dihada, Binder of Wills BlueGreen

Kasmina, Enigma Sage, Kiora, Master of the Depths, Nissa, Steward of the Elements, Oko, Thief of Crowns a or Tamiyo, Compleated Sage

WhiteBlueGreen Tamiyo, Field Researcher
BlueBlackRed Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, or Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God WhiteGreen Ajani, Unyielding, Calix, Destiny's Hand, or Huatli, Radiant Champion
WhiteBlueGreen Tamiyo, Field Researcher
BlueRedGreen Sarkhan Unbroken WhiteBlack Daxos the Returned, Kaya, Orzhov Usurper, Kaya, the Inexorable, Kaya, Geist Hunter, or Sorin, Grim Nemesis
WhiteBlueBlack Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
WhiteBlackRed Dihada, Binder of Wills
BlackRedGreen Lord Windgrace WhiteBlue
WhiteBlueBlack Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
WhiteBlueRed Narset of the Ancient Way
WhiteBlueGreen Tamiyo, Field Researcher
WhiteBlack
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