Battle of Wits 


Battle of Wits Penny Dreadful decklist played by ilikedmyname at League May 2024 (1 Jun 2024).
- Player
- ilikedmyname
- Finish
- 0-2
- Event
- League May 2024,
- Archetype
- Battle of Wits
- Format
- Penny Dreadful
- MTGO
- Paper
- Source
- Penny Dreadful
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Main deck (300)
Sideboard (15)
Main deck (300)
Creatures (55)
- 4 Aftermath Analyst
- 4 Birds of Paradise
- 2 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
- 2 Champion of Wits
- 3 Colossal Skyturtle
- 2 Courser of Kruphix
- 2 Dark Confidant
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
- 3 Deeproot Wayfinder
- 4 Dread Presence
- 3 Fae of Wishes // Granted
- 2 Glissa Sunslayer
- 3 Gloomshrieker
- 4 Lotus Cobra
- 3 Slogurk, the Overslime
- 2 Sylvan Caryatid
- 4 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
- 4 Tireless Tracker
Instants (45)
- 4 Abrupt Decay
- 2 Bile Blight
- 4 Bitter Triumph
- 3 Corpse Churn
- 4 Deduce
- 3 Doom Blade
- 2 Erebos's Intervention
- 4 Grapple with the Past
- 2 Grasp of Darkness
- 3 Long Goodbye
- 4 Phantom Interference
- 4 Shoot the Sheriff
- 4 Tangle
- 2 Thassa's Intervention
Sorceries (47)
- 4 Cultivate
- 2 Dark Petition
- 4 Dig Up
- 3 Distress
- 2 Flaying Tendrils
- 1 Languish
- 4 Lively Dirge
- 2 Lost Legacy
- 4 Maelstrom Pulse
- 4 Mastermind's Acquisition
- 4 Sleight of Hand
- 4 Squirming Emergence
- 4 Traverse the Ulvenwald
- 3 Vicious Rumors
- 2 Yahenni's Expertise
Artifacts (14)
Enchantments (19)
- 4 Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker
- 3 Battle of Wits
- 4 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
- 4 Spelunking
- 4 Vessel of Nascency
Lands (120)
Sideboard (15)
- 1 Battle of Wits
- 2 Lost Legacy
- 1 Memoricide
- 4 Mesmeric Fiend
- 4 Scarab Feast
- 3 Wilt
Compared with the average Battle of Wits list
Average of 17 decks in the 30 days up to June 1, 2024, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +30 Swamp (44 vs 13.8)
- +17 Forest (30 vs 12.8)
- +4 Abrupt Decay (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Aftermath Analyst (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Bitter Triumph (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Deathrite Shaman (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Dread Presence (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Grapple with the Past (4 vs 0.2)
Fewer than usual
- -4 Choked Estuary (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Diabolic Tutor (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Dismal Backwater (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Drowned Catacomb (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Jungle Hollow (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Mox Tantalite (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Quicken (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Temple of Deceit (0 vs 3.8)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +4 Mesmeric Fiend (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Scarab Feast (4 vs 0.2)
- +3 Wilt (3 vs 0.2)
- +1 Lost Legacy (2 vs 0.9)
Fewer than usual
- -2 Specter's Shriek (0 vs 1.8)
- -1 Tangle (0 vs 1.5)
- -1 Silent Gravestone (0 vs 1.3)
- -1 Eyes of the Wisent (0 vs 1.2)
This is the most unusual list of the archetype in this period: 173 cards away from the average.












































































