SotM Puzzle: Ultimate Akash'Bhuta

Every time Guise regains 1 HP, 3 targets regain 1 HP, every time Scholar regains HP he deals 3 targets 1 damage.

As long as Guise uses every third heal on himself he can go on until he reaches max HP. As long as for each time Guise heals himself Scholar targets Guise and each time Scholar heals he damage himself neither will ever reach max HP and the loop can continue.

That said, Guise has to gain more than 1 HP, otherwise Scholar won't be doing enough damage to get through Akash'bhuta's damage reduction.  Which is why we needed Selling Out and Look What I Found rather than relying on the damage from Guise's main power.

Ok. I see now.

 

Nicely done.

...you can "Lemme See That" on "Hippocratic Oath?"

You can with Caspit's Playground in play.  

OK, so the Scholar plays Keep Moving three times, putting all three copies of Mortal Form to Energy in play.

 

What was the 4th card played?

 

If it was Solid to Liquid, wouldn't that be enough to increase his damage enough to break through the DR?

You could also force the environment deck to shuffle by playing all copies of Gimmicky Character so you have one less DR to worry about from Akash'Bhuta.

I avoided using any damage boosters because I didn't want to do the math to see if they would make the damage being dealt/healed spiral up uncontrollably.  If Scholar starts dealing more damage than Guise's health total, it doesn't matter if he could immediately heal it away.  Twist the Ether might make it managable, but again I didn't feel like figuring it out.

 

There were a number of card plays and power uses I left out, that could possibly be used to make the combo more efficient.  But someone else will have to do the math.

So then… How is the Scholar getting past Akash'Bhuta's DR 1 against Villian targets?

You don't start the infinite damage loop with the 1 damage from Guise's base power.  That's what Mission Control, Selling Out, and Look What I Found were for - so that the damage is in increments of 3.