240 Card Modern Battle of Wits

Modern Combo Five Color Infinite Combo Jank Theme/Gimmick

Caerwyn

Creature (81)

• 4x Augury Owl
• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 4x Carrion Feeder
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Eternal Witness
• 4x Fae of Wishes
• 4x Gemhide Sliver
• 3x Grumgully, the Generous
• 3x Kitchen Finks
• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Manaweft Sliver
• 4x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 4x Metallic Mimic
• 3x Murderous Redcap
• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 4x Safehold Elite
• 4x Simian Spirit Guide
• 4x Snapcaster Mage
• 4x Street Wraith
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
• 4x Viscera Seer

Planeswalker (4)

• 4x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Land (83)

• 4x Aether Hub
• 4x Breeding Pool
• 4x City of Brass
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 3x Forest
• 4x Gemstone Mine
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Horizon Canopy
• 4x Island
• 4x Llanowar Wastes
• 4x Mana Confluence
• 4x Nurturing Peatland
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Plains
• 4x Silent Clearing
• 4x Swamp
• 4x Temple Garden
• 4x Underground River
• 4x Waterlogged Grove
• 4x Watery Grave

Instant (32)

• 2x Anguished Unmaking
• 3x Assassin's Trophy
• 4x Dismember
• 4x Fatal Push
• 3x Judge Unworthy
• 4x Mana Leak
• 4x Manamorphose
• 4x Opt
• 4x Path to Exile

Sorcery (23)

• 4x Glittering Wish
• 4x Maelstrom Pulse
• 3x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 4x Reason / Believe
• 4x Serum Visions
• 4x Thoughtseize

Enchantment (14)

• 3x Battle of Wits
• 4x Detention Sphere
• 4x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 3x Solemnity

Artifact (3)

• 3x Blasting Station

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Grumgully, the Generous
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Murderous Redcap
• 1x Scarland Thrinax

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Battle of Wits
• 1x Solemnity

Artifact (1)

• 1x Blasting Station

Instant (2)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy

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The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right and who is dead. - The Man in Black

I've always been a fan of alternate win conditions, and Battle of Wits was the first I ever tried to build a deck around. Granted, that was back in 2001 when Odyssey came out, and my childish "deck" was merely every card I owned thrown into a big stack, hoping I would pull the one copy of Battle of Wits I owned. It worked... once. Now some sixteen years have passed, and I have decided to recapture that childhood joy, and build a modern-legal Battle of Wits Deck.

Recently, I have made a fairly significant change to this deck--the removal of all tutors, including fetch lands. While this makes the deck perform a bit worse, it also mitigates problems you might run into with slow play rules--it is, after all, rather difficult to shuffle 240 cards at once, and the original iteration of the deck required a fairly significant bout of shuffling to function.

Instead, the deck now runs a few more ramp creatures to ensure colour fixing, as well as has a heavier emphasis on green lands to ensure you can pay your mana dorks early.

While Battle of Wits is the preferred way to win, the deck has a subtheme of infinite persist combos. While these combos are not necessarily the best in the game, they have the advantage of having numerous redundant cards, making them fairly easy to pull off without significant card draw or tutoring.

Top Ranked	Achieved #20 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 116 - 4 Rares 52 - 5 Uncommons 39 - 0 Commons
Cards	240
Avg. CMC	2.30
Tokens	Energy Reserve, On an Adventure
Folders	I dig it, Gimmick Decks, Possibili mazzi, bow, Interesting Modern Decks, Modern, AAWant to try, cool, Favorites