A battle of wits deck vs. A mill deck. I want to see that match.
Posted By:
Esprel
(12/17/2009 8:58:51 PM)
High concept cards like this keep me daydreaming about unusual or unexpected victories. I wonder how many have ever won with this card?
(A 'perfect win' using this card would be 5 islands and this in your first 6 draws, leaving 200 cards - and victory - in the upkeep of your 7th turn. Assuming a deck of 202 Islands and 4 Battle Of Wits, this will occur 1.8% of the time. It is an amusing diversion to think of how to increase the odds using tutors, moxes, lotuses, draw cards etc.)
Posted By:
RichardJesperson
(4/8/2010 11:17:25 AM)
Well, this card was played by Matt Linde and Brock Parker at the 2002 San Diego Masters, four featured matches at: http://www.wizards.com/sideboard/event.asp?event=MASTERSSD02 :)
Posted By:
danegator
(9/3/2010 4:04:15 AM)
@snafinturtle Just came here to repeat my post about Spawnsire of Ulamog. Never thought someone would actually use that combo as a win condition. O_O
(not quite the ridiculousness of spending insane amounts of money just so you can use the legendary rule, but still, that is hilarious)
Posted By:
Prizrak
(1/28/2011 3:09:37 AM)
Ummmmmm... This seems counterintuitive. If you have 200 or more cards in your library, wouldn't the chances of getting this be practically nil, even if you were running 4 copies?
Posted By:
land_comment
(2/25/2011 3:22:44 PM)
Foresee is another good card to go with this. Oh and Elixir of Immortality, should the game actually last that long...
Posted By:
DiasFlac420
(3/9/2011 8:25:04 PM)
Would love to build a deck around this if it wasn't so painful to carry and shuffle it. Also, people on MWS don't seem to want to play against someone with a 270-ish cards deck
Posted By:
VarteDod
(3/20/2011 4:37:36 PM)
Lots and lots of tutors are needed for this card. I once made a deck where the chances of getting this or a tutor was 9 out of 60.
Posted By:
Axelle
(5/13/2011 1:55:43 AM)
Stick 4 of these into any 5-color deck you ever make.
Who knows, you might get any easy win.
Posted By:
ZakFrost
(6/9/2011 4:50:54 PM)
Use Research with Isochron Scepter, Battle of Wits, Lapis Lazuli Talisman, and an infinite mana combo (lets use two Palladium Myrs and a Myr Galvanizer).
Cast Battle of Wits, the two Palladium Myrs and the Galvanizer. Go infinite with the Myrs and cast the Talisman and then the Scepter exiling Research. Pay 
from the infinite mana and tap the Scepter to cast a Research copy, pay 
to activate the Talisman's ability and untap the Scepter, rinse and repeat. Keep doing that until you have 200 or more cards in your library, then wait a turn to win the game. Or, if your impatient, use Time Warp.
Posted By:
JFM2796
(8/19/2011 12:42:52 PM)