Battle of Wits

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

legendofa on wolfs test

1 week ago

Wolf_skelleto Here are some basic tips for building in Modern.

Don't put more than 60 cards in your deck unless you use a specific ability like Yorion, Sky Nomad or Battle of Wits. This will help you draw all the best cards without having too many cards that don't advance your strategy.

Use four copies of the cards you need every game, three copies of the cards you want most games, and two copies of the cards that help your plan but aren't required. This will also help you be consistent in your gameplay, as you get more copies of the most effective cards.

Try to keep the mana value of your cards at four or lower. Casual play can sometimes allow a couple of cards at five or six mana with good protection and support, but even in non-tournament play, mana efficiency is important.

And above all, have fun!

TheoryCrafter on Beta Brackets Update Today

5 months ago

Personally, if we're going to have a whole bracket system, we may as well just unban everything that isn't an ante, conspiracy or is racist and set a minimum bracket for specific cards. Such as all cards currently banned means you can only play it in Bracket five while a card like Teferi's ProtectionGC can only be played in perhaps(?) no lower than bracket 3.

With that said I don't think there was a bad call the whole announcement. I know Y'all aren't happy about Coalition Victory. However, it's a spell with a mana cost of 8 and every color except Green has at least one counter spell with a mana value of 2 or less that can handle it. Not to mention the countless spells that cost one black mana to force a discard and there's cards like Naturalize to destroy Dryad of the Ilysian Grove or Leyline of the Guildpact(which some players won't be able to afford purchasing, anyways) as soon as Coalition Victory is cast.

While I don't ever see myself building a deck around Braids, Cabal Minion I can definitely see someday putting her in the Juri, Master of the Revue Deck I am currently building.

Because Sway of the Stars is now unbanned, it's not that difficult to win a game of Commander with Battle of Wits in it. One just needs to activate Spawnsire of Ulamog's 2nd activated ability to put a lotta Eldrazi on the battlefield, target Battle of Wits with Oblivion Ring or Detention Sphere, then cast Sway of the Stars for the win. Provided you can find a playgroup willing to tolerate a wish board of 103 or more cards.

May you draw well.

Bookrook on Playing more than sixty cards

8 months ago

Is there any value in playing more than sixty cards in constructed formats? Other than cards that specifically care about having more cards in your deck, like Battle of Wits or Yorion, Sky Nomad or combatting a mill deck? The reason I ask this question is because I see people playing about seventy cards or more on arena.

Bookrook on Thousand-Year Shahrazad Storm (Extremely Cursed)

10 months ago

This is the best deck I’ve ever seen in my life I have to build this on paper but sharazad costs 500 dollars:(. If your trying to make this deck competitiver, you can add Psychic Surgery to mill your opponent out one shuffle at a time. Also play the twincasts and forks and all of the other copy spells to make this deck the most competitively viable and second most ridiculous deck in the universe. (Right behind trying to blink Oracle of the Alpha to win with Battle of Wits in commander).

UrzasUnderstudy on Claire Loony

2 years ago

If only Battle of Wits was a 3-mana card. I'm tempted to build a Claire D'Loon commander deck just to play that card.

TypicalTimmy on Can I answer my phone?

2 years ago

You know, it's silly but she could make Battle of Wits viable in EDH. You'd have to create 100+ tokens and get them all shuffled into your library, but as long as you are at or above the 200 card benchmark, you win.

sylvannos on Mana Crypt is bad

3 years ago

@KL185: I'm pointing out some of the obvious applications to having cheap, fast artifact mana. Going land -> Mana Crypt -> Trinisphere means you get to keep playing Magic while your opponent sits around doing nothing for three turns while you set up a Wasteland/Strip Mine + Crucible of Worlds lock. Mana Crypt was a $100 card long before EDH was a thing, where it could only be played in Vintage.

@Tryptic: Honestly, I agree about EDH's banlist being complete garbage. All of the format's problems stem from the availability of fast mana and tutors. Prismatic had the right idea where it banned fast mana like Mana Crypt and Sol Ring, tutors (ranging from Mystical Teachings to Demonic Tutor), and then any other degenerate cards like Memory Jar, Necropotence, Yawgmoth's Will, or Gush.

There's a reason the format was able to have whacky decks with 4x Darksteel Colossus and 4x Akroma, Angel of Wrath be viable. The only cards that were specifically a problem for the format were things like Sundering Titan and Battle of Wits (both banned). Cards like Biorhythm weren't a problem because it played more like conventional Magic. If you can cast an 8 mana spell, you SHOULD be winning the game.

TheoryCrafter on Card creation challenge

3 years ago

{2}{U}{U}

Sorcery

Uncommon

Target player shuffles all creatures they own from the battlefield, their graveyard and their hand into their library.

If ~ was kicked, it has flash.

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The missing piece to my brilliant plan to use Spawnsire of Ulamog to wish just about every Eldrazi ever printed onto the battlefield, then use this spell, if necessary, to win a Commander game with Battle of Wits.

Your challenge is to create a card you need to pull off a game winning combo.