Midnight Suns Black Shadows Challenge Walkthrough

Midnight Suns Black Shadows Challenge Walkthrough

Wondering what the solution to the Midnight Suns Black Shadows challenge is? Check out our step-by-step breakdown for how to complete it.

08th Dec 2022 16:30

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You'll want a rundown of the Midnight Suns Black Shadows challenge so you can complete Nico Minoru's combat puzzle and take home her Legendary card. The Midnight Suns combat challenges are unique to every hero, providing puzzles for you to solve by using your various cards, but you need to max your friendship with that hero first to unlock it. So, if you want to complete Nico Minoru's challenge, check out our Midnight Suns Black Shadows challenge walkthrough.

Check out how to beat the other Midnight Sun challenges for the other characters below:

Midnight Suns Black Shadows Challenge Walkthrough

Midnight Suns Black Shadows Challenge Walkthrough

Nico Minoru's Midnight Sun challenge, Black Shadows, tests your knowledge of the randomisation features that are part of Nico's kit, with various random attack and random buff cards. The challenge gives you five cards to begin, and places four enemies in front of you to defeat. 

Here's our full walkthrough of the Black Shadows challenge.

  1. Start by redrawing Blood Magic to get Double Up.
  2. Cast Double Up to get a copy of Witchfire.
  3. Cast Double Up again to get a copy of Witchstorm
  4. Redraw Empower to get Blood Magic.
  5. Play Blood Magic to get Strengthened. 
  6. Use Witchstorm on the enemy on the very left to damage them and the one next to them.
  7. Use the other Witchstorm on the enemy on the very right to damage them and the one next to them. 
  8. Cast Witchfire to randomly kill two enemies. 
  9. Cast another Witchfire to kill the final two enemies. 
  10. Play Crack the Sky to destroy the Black Crystal and complete the challenge. 

After you have finished the Black Shadows challenge, you will get the Legendary Crack the Sky card and Midnight Sun combat suit for Nico. 

That's all for our walkthrough of the Midnight Suns Black Shadows challenge, and now you have an idea of the full solution. 

Check out our Midnight Suns best Nico Minoru deck too so you can make the most of her randomised kit. 

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