How many Ojamas does it take for a Hoedown!!? I was aiming for approximately infinite (except, with a definite number), but unfortunately, all the readers who did notice the possibility of a loop in this solution made errors in their execution! The biggest legal hoedown!! was 64 Ojamas large.
That’s right—this challenge did contain an infinite loop. It was a pretty simple one, but not one that any of the other reader challenges had tested for. Still, very few contestants found that solution, and none executed it flawlessly.
The winner, who won without finding the loop, was Wenxuan H., from Lake Mary, Florida. Here’s how Wenxuan threw the Ojama Delta Hoedown!! to end all Ojama Delta Hoedown!!s.
OP indicates Ojama Points earned.
Starting Hand:
Mirage of Nightmare
Morphing Jar #2
Ojama Trio
Enchanting Fitting Room
Pot of Greed
Turn 1
Draw Painful Choice.
1. Play Pot of Greed to get Desert Sunlight and Ojama Trio
2. Play Painful Choice and select Ojama Trio, two Night Assailant, and two Skull Servant. You get Ojama Trio.
3. Set Morphing Jar #2.
4. Play Enchanting Fitting Room and get three Ojama Green and one Ojama Yellow. Special summon them all.
OP: 4
5. Set three Ojama Trio and Desert Sunlight.
6. Play Mirage of Nightmare.
Opponent’s Turn
You draw four cards from Mirage of Nightmare. They are Mystical Space Typhoon, Night Assailant, and two Exchange.
7. Flip Ojama Trio.
OP: 7
8. Flip Desert Sunlight. Morphing Jar #2’s effect goes off. After shuffling, you pick up these cards: Morphing Jar #2, three Mask of Darkness, and Tribe-Infecting Virus. All are set.
Turn 2
Draw Red Medicine.
9. Activate Mystical Space Typhoon on Mirage of Nightmare before the Standby phase.
10. Flip Ojama Trio.
OP: 10
11. Flip two Mask of Darkness to get back two Ojama Trio.
12. Flip Tribe-Infecting Virus. Discard Night Assailant for Tribe's effect and name Beasts. All Ojama tokens get destroyed. Get back the other Night Assailant from the graveyard with Night Assailant’s effect.
13. Activate third Ojama Trio.
OP: 13
14. Flip Mask of Darkness and get back Ojama Trio.
15. Play Exchange. They take Red Medicine and you take Ojama Trio.
16. Flip Morphing Jar #2. You pick up the same cards as last time.
17. Set the four Ojama Trios.
Turn 3
Draw Kuriboh.
18. Play Exchange. You get Ojama Trio and they take Kuriboh.
19. Activate Ojama Trio.
OP: 17
20. Flip Tribe-Infecting Virus and one Mask of Darkness. Get back Ojama Trio.
21. Discard Night Assailant for Tribe's effect and name Beasts. All Ojama tokens are destroyed. Get back the other Night Assailant with Night Assailant’s effect.
22. Activate Ojama Trio.
OP: 20
23. Repeat steps 21 and 22 twice.
OP: 26
24. Flip last Ojama Trio.
OP: 29
25. Flip remaining two Mask of Darkness and get back two Ojama Trio.
26. Flip Morphing Jar #2. Get the same cards as last time.
27. Set four Ojama Trio.
Turn 4
Draw Upstart Goblin.
28. Play Upstart Goblin and draw Reckless Greed.
29. Repeat steps 19 through 25.
OP: 41
30. Flip Morphing Jar #2. Pick up and set Morphing Jar (#1), Tribe-Infecting Virus, and three Ojama Black.
31. Set Reckless Greed and three Ojama Trio.
Turn 5
Draw Premature Burial.
32. Activate Reckless Greed and draw two Rain of Mercy.
33. Play Ojama Trio.
OP: 44
34. Activate two Rain of Mercy. Set Premature Burial.
35. Flip over all monsters. Draw these with Morphing Jar: Rain of Mercy, two Enchanting Fitting Room, Magical Scientist, and Giant Trunade.
OP: 47
36. Repeat Step 21, but this time, the Ojama Blacks are destroyed too.
37. Play Rain of Mercy.
38. Play Ojama Trio and repeat step 21.
OP: 50
39. Repeat step 38.
OP: 53
40. Discard Night Assailant for Tribe-Infecting Virus and call Rock. Morphing Jar is destroyed. Get other Night Assailant from graveyard with Night Assailant’s effect.
41. Play Enchanting Fitting Room. You pick up three Ojama Green and an Ojama Yellow.
OP: 57
42. Discard Night Assailant for Tribe-Infecting Virus and call Beasts. Get other Night Assailant back with Night Assailant's effect.
43. Summon Magical Scientist and pay 3000 life points to get three Ojama King.
OP: 60
44. Discard Night Assailant for Tribe-Infecting Virus and call Beasts. Get back the other Night Assailant.
45. Play Enchanting Fitting Room. Pick up two Ojama Yellow and two Summoned Skull. The Ojama Yellows are summoned.
OP: 62
46. Play Premature Burial on Ojama Black.
OP: 63
47. Repeat step 42.
48. Play Giant Trunade. Premature Burial is returned to hand.
49. Repeat step 46.
OP: 64
Total Ojama Points: 64
Wow!
I’d intended for this challenge to be easier than some of the recent ones (Canadian, Eh? was just brutal), but this solution really earned Wenxuan his win. Want a hint as to the intended solution? Don’t expect to see Fiber Jar permitted in future challenges.
Next week, I’ll be joined by Julia Hedberg. Julia and I will be writing challenges and sifting through your entries together from now on. The result? Some of the challenges are going to be exceedingly devious, including stuff that blows Challenge Four clean out of the water. But, with two people working on the challenges, we’ll have the opportunity to move to a weekly format! That’s right—instead of two chances per month to win prizes, respect, and certification of your combo-finding lunacy, you’ll now have four! This will allow us to give you guys a bigger, crazier range challenges, as well as a mix of difficulties. Plus, the challenges will all go up on a regular basis, so you’ll know exactly when to set aside your evening to pore over volumes of the newest, the hottest, and the most obscure Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
For now, Wenxuan H. has won himself the distinction of becoming a Metagame Reader Challenge Champ, as well as half a dozen booster packs. Congratulations to Wenxuan, and thanks to everyone who competed in this past week’s challenge!
—Jason Grabher-Meyer