can anyone recomend a good setting for the champion quests. i dont have lots of zil cards and its getting difficult

you can win by discard if you have the althing

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Even without althing to be honest. That is what I did. A simple discard with Turn to Shadow Side for survivability.

well I finished it with some 2 Wanted!, 3 Shadow tentacle, 3 Thunderstroke, 1 Shadow cape, 2 Turned to the shadow side and 1 Shadow Idol

when you get lucky at draw an also use Archmage Artrezil's ability

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I recently completed this quest using a fairly cheap deck:

Double Clay X 3
Treacherous X 3
Shadow Idol X 3
Shadow Tentacle X3
Shadow Cape X 2
Fallback X 1

A couple of things to note before I go into my strategy:
1. Shadow will not play shadow spells if you have Shadow Idol in play
2. Shadow will not play cards if it would cause him to deck out.

Armed with this information I proceed into strategy:

Turn 1
Buffing defense and playing Treacherous

It is important NOT to play Shadow Idol on the first turn. The reason for this is that you will need a turn free of damage later on to survive long enough to mill him to death. If you play Shadow idol on the first turn you effectively lose a turn on not taking any damage. I notice Shadow tends to play spell damage on turn 1 so the damage you take will be minimal compared to the damage he can do with his physical attacks. (Note if you were unlucky and didn't pull any Double Clay in your opening hand feel free to play Shadow Tentacle

Turn 2
Shadow Idol

Now is the time to play Shadow Idol. The beauty of this turn is that if you played Treacherous last turn and haven't discarded (which you shouldn't do!) It will play for free this turn due to Artrezil's ability getting you closer to milling Shadow to death.

Turn 3,4,5,6
DEFENSE!

From here on out Shadow will know better than to try to attack you with magic so do your best to buff your defenses using Double Clay Shadow Cape and Fallback. It shouldn't be necessary to cast Treacherous again as it will activate due to Artrezil's ability

With your defense high (at round 3 I was lucky enough to have about 13) and his attack debuffed by Shadow Tentacle you should be able to outlast him until he is out of cards.