Post-Rotation Extended - The Wits

[realmlord]

Yes, the Post-Rotation environment will be an open format for a while. I think that almost anything can have a chance. So, the Return of my favorite alternate win - Battle of Wits. 250 Cards...lots of tutors, wishes, and draw........instant win ;D if you can survive. If anyone has trouble understanding how it works....let me know.

This was almost my Extended deck for this year except with [glow=red,2,300]Vampiric Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, AK, Brainstorm, Intuition, Forbid, and Academy Rector[/glow]

Here we GO:

Primary Win Condition (3)
3 Battle of Wits

Draw (47)
4 Probe
4 Opt
4 Fact or Fiction
4 Inspiration
3 Howling Mine
3 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Fire/Ice (Control and Draw)
4 Serum Visions
4 Cephalid Looter
4 Concentrate
4 Peek
4 Words of Wisdom
1 Arcanis the Omnipotent

Tutor (30)
3 Cunning Wish
2 Planar Portal
4 Sterling Grove
2 Captain Sisay
3 Golden Wish
4 Burning Wish
2 Time of Need
4 Living Wish
4 Diabolic Tutor
1 Bringer of the Black Dawn
1 Bringer of the White Dawn

Mana Fixing (38)
4 Eternal Dragon
4 Chrome Mox
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Utopia Tree
4 Harrow
4 Kodama's Reach
4 Darksteel Ingot

Control (40)
4 Counterspell
4 Mana Leak
4 Wrath of God
2 Akroma's Vengeance
4 Absorb
4 Oblivion Stone
2 Echoing Truth
2 Undermine
3 Orim's Chant
2 Boomerang
4 Syncopate
2 Upheaval
3 Mindslaver

Other Spells (14)
1 Mirari
2 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
1 Reya Dawnbringer
4 Isochron Scepter
2 Heroes' Reunion
2 Flametongue Kavu
2 Reminisce

Lands (78)
3 City of Brass
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Mirrodin's Core
4 Forsaken City
4 Tendo Ice Bridge
15 Forest
18 Island
11 Plains
4 Swamp
3 Mountain
4 Flooded Strand
4 Windswept Heath

Sideboard (15)
1 Battle of Wits
1 Golden Wish
1 Mindslaver
1 Terminate
1 Artifact Mutation
1 Aura Mutation
1 Orim's Chant
1 Stifle
1 Mana Maze
1 City of Brass
1 Bringer of the White Dawn
1 Bringer of the Blue Dawn
1 Final Judgment
1 Mamory Lapse
1 Exalted Angel

[ExaltedShadowmage]

that is so f**king cool

when i say f**king cool, i don't mean cool, or kinda cool, or sort of neat.

i mean REALLY f**kING COOL

my only suggestions: add Eternal Dragon and Exalted Angel. those cards are really amazing and since you are playing white anyways, you can fix your mana, have a really cool virtually unkillable monster, and you get a cheap big beater that gains you life. i like them.

[realmlord]

Hmmm.
Treva and Reya can come out for 2 Eternal Dragon. But I have to really look for more spots to free up for 4 Angel and 2 more Dragon.

Maybe leave Reya and Treva in and get rid of other stuff. 250 cards may seem like room to be very flexible, but it really isn't as easy as it looks.

[ExaltedShadowmage]

maybe Treva, Reya, and 2 Manipulate Fate for the 4 Dragons? they are more important then the Angels anyways

[realmlord]

Ok, here is an idea
MD
-2 Manipulate Fate
-1 Time of Need
-1 Treva
+4 Eternal Dragon

[ExaltedShadowmage]

ooh

i think that is good

Angels are really good, but they aren't necessary.

if you are playing plains, and some element of Control, then Dragon does belong in your deck

[realmlord]

I can see adding one Angel in the SB in place of Memory Lapse or something like that. That way I can wish for my life-gaining Just Win Baby^TM card.

[ExaltedShadowmage]

cool

that sounds like a good plan.

Decree of Justice is also certifiably insane but you don't have to add that one

[realmlord]

Actually that is something I'll test as a 1 of. I'll go -1 Thirst for Knowledge; +1 Decree of Justice. There is room since it has the card draw potential.

[ExaltedShadowmage]

nice.

yeah i really like it cause it cycles, uncounterable accept to Stifle, and can generate gazillions of guys at instant speed.

im funny that way

[realmlord]

I can't believe I forgot Stifle in the SB!!!!!!!!
Oh the laughs I would have heard.

Out 1 Flametongue Kavu
In 1 Stifle

[ExaltedShadowmage]

yeah FTK is amazing, but Stifle is even more so.

in fact, Stifle is on the list of my Top 5 favorite blue cards

[realmlord]

d**n, you are a posting machine today. I get the post in and seconds later our reply is there!!!

[Jameson]

definitely. to the, um, dragons thing.

i think reminisce is a key card to winning in this deck, if you get out battle with 199 cards you lose (or at least you don't win) so that could be something to pursue.

also pursue-able is tooth and nail, especially with platinum angel/abunas which can keep you alive long enough to dig for battle and get your stack back to 200. what do you think about that? you'd run cloudposts, temples of the false god, and the urza lands. lots of land searching in addition to your other tutors, and etc. what do you think?

[realmlord]

I like the Tooth and Nail idea, but I think that will be for another version. This version tries to be very straight forward....draw-tutor-play-win.


I only run 2 Reminisce since chances are that I won't go through 50 cards before the game ends. If I do, I can tutor into a Reminisce and still win.