Battle of Wits 
Battle of Wits Penny Dreadful decklist played by wad3owenwatts at Penny Dreadful Thursdays 36.01 (29 Nov 2024).
- Player
- wad3owenwatts
- Finish
- #3 of 9, 2-2
- Archetype
- Battle of Wits
- Format
- Penny Dreadful
- MTGO
- Paper
- Source
- Penny Dreadful
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Main deck (265)
Sideboard (13)
Main deck (265)
Creatures (36)
- 4 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
- 4 Hostage Taker
- 4 Krosan Tusker
- 4 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- 4 Sower of Temptation
- 4 Suspicious Stowaway // Seafaring Werewolf
- 4 Sylvan Ranger
- 4 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
- 2 Wharf Infiltrator
- 1 Zur the Enchanter
Instants (48)
- 4 Anticipate
- 2 Brokers Charm
- 4 Burst Lightning
- 4 Clutch of the Undercity
- 2 Doom Blade
- 2 Esper Charm
- 4 Moment of Craving
- 2 Power Sink
- 4 Refute
- 2 Remove Soul
- 4 Scarab Feast
- 4 Telling Time
- 4 Thassa's Intervention
- 2 Victim of Night
- 4 Worldly Counsel
Sorceries (54)
- 4 Akroma's Vengeance
- 4 Arc Lightning
- 4 Bushwhack
- 4 Consuming Vapors
- 4 Cruel Ultimatum
- 4 Crux of Fate
- 4 Cultivate
- 2 Dimir Machinations
- 3 Gaze of Granite
- 4 Idyllic Tutor
- 4 Increasing Ambition
- 4 Mastermind's Acquisition
- 4 Profane Tutor
- 4 Radiant Flames
- 1 Slaughter Games
Artifacts (14)
- 3 Chromatic Lantern
- 3 Cosmos Elixir
- 1 Magnifying Glass
- 1 Phial of Galadriel
- 4 Plague Boiler
- 1 Tamiyo's Journal
- 1 The Celestus
Enchantments (17)
- 4 Battle of Wits
- 4 Bounty of the Luxa
- 1 Kumena's Awakening
- 4 Sporogenic Infection
- 4 The Mirari Conjecture
Lands (96)
- 2 Blighted Fen
- 1 Cascading Cataracts
- 3 Celestial Colonnade
- 1 Cinder Glade
- 4 Crumbling Necropolis
- 1 Crumbling Vestige
- 4 Evolving Wilds
- 21 Forest
- 4 Gateway Plaza
- 4 Grand Coliseum
- 2 Hinterland Harbor
- 16 Island
- 12 Mountain
- 1 Nephalia Drownyard
- 1 Plains
- 1 Rootbound Crag
- 4 Rupture Spire
- 4 Swamp
- 1 Urza's Factory
- 4 Vivid Crag
- 1 Vivid Creek
- 4 Woodland Stream
Sideboard (13)
Compared with the average Battle of Wits list
Average of 11 decks in the 30 days up to Nov. 29, 2024, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +11 Mountain (12 vs 1.1)
- +10 Forest (21 vs 11.5)
- +4 Akroma's Vengeance (4 vs 0.4)
- +4 Anticipate (4 vs 0.4)
- +4 Arc Lightning (4 vs 0.4)
- +4 Bounty of the Luxa (4 vs 0.4)
- +4 Burst Lightning (4 vs 0.4)
- +4 Bushwhack (4 vs 0.4)
Fewer than usual
- -10 Swamp (4 vs 13.7)
- -8 Island (16 vs 24.3)
- -4 Plains (1 vs 5.2)
- -4 Ancestral Vision (0 vs 3.6)
- -4 Fae of Wishes (0 vs 3.6)
- -4 Search for Azcanta (0 vs 3.6)
- -3 Choked Estuary (0 vs 2.9)
- -3 Dismal Backwater (0 vs 2.9)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +2 Dark Intimations (2 vs 0.2)
- +2 Orbs of Warding (2 vs 0.2)
Fewer than usual
- -1 Declaration of Naught (0 vs 1.3)
This is the most unusual list of the archetype in this period: 194 cards away from the average.