Battle of Wits

by Tyler_10 on 12 March 2013

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Deck Description

Draw a ton and find answers such as board wipes and other control means. Get Battle of Wits out, win the game.

How to Play

Play all the draw spells you can and hopefully you'll get a lot of the "no maximum hand size" cards. Stall like mad using board wipes and unsummon like cards. Cheat BoW into play using Academy Rector or play it legit after tutoring it out. Alternate win-cons incude: stalling so long that your opponents die of drawing themselves out (Jace's Archivist can be deadly here when all of the static draw abilities pile up late-game), death by psychosis crawler (once all of the static draw abilities stack up), or my personal favourite - exiling BoW from your hand with Karn, then restarting the game with BoW on the field.

Deck Tags

  • just for fun
  • Casual
  • Draw
  • battle of wits

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Battle of Wits

To much draw will leave you without enough cards in your library. I love the deck though. And all the win conditions.

Diabolic tutor, demonic tutor, there is another tutor that will let you search up a card for three life, diabolic revelation, and that's it. You pretty much get something to search it.

I have seen self mill decks + grave return, and just before they play bow, they return there graveyard. That is usually pretty stable.

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Posted 19 March 2013 at 04:35

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Ya, luckily throughout a whole game I'll only get a handful of the draw artifacts so things rarely get too out of hand (get it?). Sorry, bad pun... Anyways, if I'm unable to find a BoW in time I can always just pull shenanigans with PWs or fuck with my opponents using various forms of removal and such. This deck was designed for multiplayer anyways and it's ridiculously fun to play with friends.

As for the tutors I'm not so sure; I wanted to keep the deck dual coloured, so I don't really want to splash black if I don't have to. Also the card I think you're thinking of is Vampiric Tutor at 2 life ;). If I was running a competitive BoW deck I'd definitely run tutors though, you're absolutely right.

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Posted 20 March 2013 at 01:17

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Something you can consider if you do end up drawing too many cards is to throw in Psychic Spiral, it will throw back in your whole graveyard giving you a guaranteed total of more than 200 and it might also give you an additional win condition if you have drawn the game out long enough that it might just mill your opponent out.

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Posted 19 March 2013 at 04:40

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WOW yes. Psychic Spiral is in. I'll take out the Sphinx because I'll be wrathing the board anyways lol.

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Posted 20 March 2013 at 01:11

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