From the Battle of Wits draft thread, it got me interested in putting one together to see how it looks and plays (MWS for me since the deck would be ridiculously expensive). I figured a community deck building thread built around the card would be fun to put together. I know Fakespam put one together a while back and played it in some tournaments so hopefully he can come in a help the deck out.
Rules for posting
1) Please, when recommending a card, include how many.
2) When recommending a card, include a reason for its inclusion. I will ignore all posts of just a card suggestion.
3) No lists. The purpose of this thread is to build the deck as a community. I am sure all of us could throw together a list of legacy staples.
I will update the opening post and keep the updated list on each page.
So....
4 Battle of Wits
Decklist (so far)
UWgb Battle of Wits
Lands
4 City of Brass
4 Tundra
4 Tropical Island
4 Savannah
4 Underground Sea
4 Bayou
4 Scrubland
4 Flooded Strand
4 Windswept Heath
4 Polluted Delta
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Academy Ruins
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Dust Bowl
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Secluded Steppe
1 Barren Moor
Acceleration / Mana Fixing
4 Pentad Prism
4 Coalition Relic
Draw
4 Ancestral Visions
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Brainstorm
4 Jace
4 Fact or Fiction
3 Deep Anal
Tutors
4 Enlightened Tutor
4 Mystical Tutor
4 Wordly Tutor
4 Sterling Grove
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Idyllic Tutor
4 Trinket Mage
4 Intuition
4 Gifts Ungiven
Counters
4 Force of Will
4 Muddle the Mixture
4 Counterspell
4 Forbid
4 Spell Snare
Discard
4 Cabal Therapy
Removal / Creature Control
4 Engineered Explosives
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Path to Exile
4 Condemn
4 Vedalken Shackles
4 Pernicious Deed
4 Krosan Grip
4 Humility
4 Moat
4 Wrath of God
1 Exile into Darkness
GY Hate
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Relic of Progenitus
Recursion
4 Life from the Loam
4 Crucible of Worlds
3 Replenish
1 Regrowth
1 Reclaim
Multi-purpose
4 Bant Charm
Creatures
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Eternal Witness
4 Trinket Mage
4 Vendilion Clique
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Sower of Temptation
4 Academy Rector
1 Etched Oracle
1 Gigapede
1 Shriekmaw
1 Genesis
1 Squee
1 Wonder
Other Win Cons
4 Decree of Justice
4 Elspeth
1 Mirari's Wake
1 Mindslaver
Win
4 Battle of the Wits
Last edited by Jak; 08-19-2009 at 09:38 PM.
4x enlightened tutor
Fetches battle of witts and is in a nice color of white being a good compliment and control color for battle of witts.
4 Force of Will - Otherwise, you lose to Belcher.
How about 4 Academy Rector: splashable and able to get the BoW into play.
4 Counterspell
Helps Force of Will in the counter department.
4x Sensei's diving top.
I mean, with the amount of tutoring/draw/fetch effects in the deck I can see it helping out a lot. We run 4 because we're not worried about multiples :P (Wow, this deck is looking like thresh already...OH NO)
EDIT: Golden wish is too much fail D: I wish it cost three, because then it'd be playable. More than burning/living because of the increased target count, but still reasonable to use.
I've always used 4x brainspoil. Transmutes for battle, and doubles as removal (albeit a little slow for that purpose)
Today is under construction
Thank you for understanding.
4x Idyllic Tutor. Since we play 230+ cards.
4x Spoils of the Vault
But really,
4 x Life from the Loam
InfoNinjas
4 brainstorm - the deck is blue.
4 Fact or Fiction
More draw is good.
I'll update the opening post with the cards added.
4 Yoked Plowbeast
How color intensive do we want to be? I think that if we're going to bother putting a list together we need to decide how many colors it should be. So far we need , which seems too intensive with over 200 cards, even with good fixing.
140x Relentless Rats.
(Someone actually played Battle of Wits in a Big Arse tournament back in the day.)
“It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.”
-David DeLaney
Mystical Tutor. You are running blue and it can fetch Idyllic/Enlightened Tutor. It could also get Replenish which would be hot with dredging Loam or Attunement. Sterling Grove could also get BoW or protect it and looks like its in color if you are gonna run Loam.
I think it should probably be straight UW. They're going to give the best tutoring/control, and I guess I don't see another color adding enough to compensate the possible inconsistency, but maybe I'm wrong. (Green gives us goyf/sterling grove/grip/other/Knight of the Reliquary/loam)
Also:
4x Tundra (Obligatory)
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