Battle of Wits 
Battle of Wits Penny Dreadful decklist played by emobrian at League September 2018 (5 Oct 2018).
- Player
- emobrian
- Finish
- 1-4
- Event
- League September 2018,
- Archetype
- Battle of Wits
- Format
- Penny Dreadful
- MTGO
- Paper
- Source
- Penny Dreadful
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Main deck (243)
Sideboard (15)
Main deck (243)
Creatures (13)
Instants (52)
- 4 Bile Blight
- 4 Dimir Charm
- 4 Dissolve
- 4 Fact or Fiction
- 4 Fortune's Favor
- 4 Harrow
- 4 Mystic Genesis
- 4 Rethink
- 4 Rewind
- 4 Slay
- 4 Sultai Charm
- 4 Syncopate
- 4 Turn Aside
Sorceries (45)
- 2 Brainspoil
- 2 Dead Drop
- 4 Deathmark
- 2 Demonic Collusion
- 4 Despise
- 4 Distant Memories
- 2 Extinguish All Hope
- 4 Haunting Echoes
- 4 Lay Bare the Heart
- 4 Plea for Guidance
- 4 Rampant Growth
- 4 Self-Inflicted Wound
- 4 Treasure Cruise
- 1 Villainous Wealth
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (28)
- 4 Battle of Wits
- 4 Curse of Death's Hold
- 4 Dream Tides
- 4 Frozen Aether
- 4 Hedron Alignment
- 1 Honden of Night's Reach
- 1 Honden of Seeing Winds
- 4 Shifting Sky
- 2 Swirl the Mists
Lands (92)
- 1 Blighted Cataract
- 1 Blighted Fen
- 2 Desert of the Glorified
- 2 Desert of the Indomitable
- 2 Desert of the Mindful
- 1 Encroaching Wastes
- 4 Evolving Wilds
- 10 Forest
- 4 Foul Orchard
- 4 Golgari Guildgate
- 18 Island
- 1 Mystifying Maze
- 4 Salt Marsh
- 4 Simic Guildgate
- 4 Stalking Stones
- 4 Submerged Boneyard
- 18 Swamp
- 4 Thornwood Falls
- 4 Transguild Promenade
Sideboard (15)
Compared with the average Battle of Wits list
Average of 18 decks in the 30 days up to Oct. 5, 2018, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +10 Swamp (18 vs 7.8)
- +8 Island (18 vs 9.9)
- +4 Bile Blight (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Brain in a Jar (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Culling Scales (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Curse of Death's Hold (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Deathmark (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Despise (4 vs 0.2)
Fewer than usual
- -6 Plains (0 vs 6.3)
- -4 Forest (10 vs 14.2)
- -4 Arcane Sanctum (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Frontier Bivouac (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Sandsteppe Citadel (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Mountain (0 vs 3.6)
- -4 Bring to Light (0 vs 3.6)
- -4 Filigree Familiar (0 vs 3.6)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +4 Drain the Well (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Infest (4 vs 0.2)
- +3 Cranial Extraction (4 vs 0.6)
- +2 Moratorium Stone (2 vs 0.1)
Fewer than usual
- -2 Vedalken Plotter (0 vs 1.7)
- -2 Gaea's Revenge (0 vs 1.6)
This is the most unusual list of the archetype in this period: 170 cards away from the average.