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Best Served Cold

HARD

IMPORTANT:
You have deduced that the upper player has a card that can steal a card from your hand, and the left and right players both are empty-handed.


This puzzle was created by a friend of mine who is a math PHD at MIT.
Good Luck.

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HINT: It starts with Providence.

This solution is unique. If you found a different one, it has an issue with it. So be sure before you read on!

For your first action, use Providence to swap Retribution with Dagger, making your Purity worth 10.
For your second, play Last Laugh on the left player, triggering their retribution.

The puzzle is too complex for me to explore every avenue here. Essentially, wherever the left player plays the token, YOU win. Convincing yourself of that is half the puzzle!

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