Battle of Wits 
Battle of Wits Penny Dreadful decklist played by iwearshoes at Penny Dreadful Mondays 29.07 (12 Jun 2023).
- Player
- iwearshoes
- Finish
- #10 of 14, 1-2
- Archetype
- Battle of Wits
- Format
- Penny Dreadful
- MTGO
- Paper
- Source
- Penny Dreadful
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Main deck (283)
Sideboard (15)
Main deck (283)
Creatures (23)
- 1 Acidic Slime
- 4 Birds of Paradise
- 4 Coiling Oracle
- 2 Elvish Visionary
- 1 Lochmere Serpent
- 1 Mistcutter Hydra
- 2 Obstinate Baloth
- 4 Sylvan Caryatid
- 3 Vampire Nighthawk
- 1 Vexing Shusher
Planeswalkers (9)
- 2 Garruk Wildspeaker
- 2 Jace, Architect of Thought
- 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
- 2 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
- 1 Liliana Vess
- 1 Nissa, Worldwaker
Instants (77)
- 2 Aetherspouts
- 1 Commit // Memory
- 2 Consume the Meek
- 1 Doom Blade
- 2 Erebos's Intervention
- 1 Evacuation
- 1 Exclude
- 4 Fact or Fiction
- 1 Far // Away
- 2 Forbid
- 2 Forbidden Alchemy
- 1 Fracturing Gust
- 4 Frantic Search
- 2 Heartless Act
- 2 Hero's Downfall
- 3 Hieroglyphic Illumination
- 1 Into the Roil
- 1 Krosan Grip
- 3 Lose Focus
- 3 Mana Leak
- 4 Mystical Teachings
- 1 Pharika's Libation
- 2 Pull from Tomorrow
- 3 Putrefy
- 2 Quicken
- 1 Repeal
- 4 Shred Memory
- 3 Sudden Edict
- 4 Sultai Charm
- 1 Summary Dismissal
- 1 Tangle
- 4 Tear Asunder
- 1 Thassa's Intervention
- 4 Think Twice
- 1 Voidslime
- 1 Vraska's Contempt
- 1 Wilt
Sorceries (45)
- 1 Black Sun's Zenith
- 2 Crux of Fate
- 4 Cultivate
- 2 Deep Analysis
- 4 Diabolic Tutor
- 1 Flaying Tendrils
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
- 3 Harmonize
- 1 Increasing Ambition
- 1 Lost Legacy
- 4 Mastermind's Acquisition
- 1 Memoricide
- 4 Ponder
- 4 Rampant Growth
- 2 Reap and Sow
- 4 Search for Tomorrow
- 1 Upheaval
- 2 Yahenni's Expertise
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (11)
Lands (108)
- 2 Demolition Field
- 4 Dismal Backwater
- 4 Drowned Catacomb
- 4 Evolving Wilds
- 13 Forest
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 4 Hinterland Harbor
- 21 Island
- 4 Jungle Hollow
- 2 Nephalia Drownyard
- 19 Swamp
- 4 Tangled Islet
- 3 Tanglepool Bridge
- 4 Temple of Malady
- 4 Temple of Mystery
- 4 Terramorphic Expanse
- 2 Thawing Glaciers
- 4 Thornwood Falls
- 4 Vivid Marsh
- 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
Sideboard (15)
Compared with the average Battle of Wits list
Average of 12 decks in the 30 days up to June 12, 2023, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +4 Frantic Search (4 vs 0.3)
- +3 Search for Azcanta (3 vs 0.3)
- +2 Drowned Catacomb (4 vs 1.7)
- +2 Jace, Architect of Thought (2 vs 0.2)
- +2 Kiora, the Crashing Wave (2 vs 0.2)
- +2 Vampire Nighthawk (3 vs 1.3)
- +2 Demolition Field (2 vs 0.5)
- +2 Reap and Sow (2 vs 0.5)
Fewer than usual
- -4 Carven Caryatid (0 vs 3.7)
- -1 Quiet Speculation (0 vs 1.3)
- -1 Forest (13 vs 14.2)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +2 Tamiyo, Collector of Tales (2 vs 0.2)
- +1 Duress (3 vs 1.8)
Fewer than usual
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This is the most unusual list of the archetype in this period: 21 cards away from the average.