Board 8 > Oh, **** you Wizards [Magic the Gathering]

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Went to a prerelease today. Pulled Battle of Wits.

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And you didn't ask the store to give you 200 lands to play it? For shame.

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I like my strategy to be less obvious. If I roll in with a deck 5x the size of everyone else's it's hard to argue that I'm rolling a Black/White.

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It can't possibly be as bad as pulling Descent Into Madness. What an awful card, and Mythic too.

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That card is hilarious.

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I got a Door to Nothingness at mine, by the way, so I understand your anger.

Though I totally would've played that thing if I had any Evolving Wilds or dual lands or anything like that.

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BoW:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=288878

DiM:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=240119

I could see Descent being ok in a black/green sap deck or something. Battle probably wouldn't be reasonable if it were 100 cards.

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Wait

They brought Battle of Wits back?

Why

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From: CherryCokes | #008

Wait

They brought Battle of Wits back?

Why

They needed to pull this back at the same time TBQH

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=146021&type=card

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From: Tehmoosey1 | #006

I got a Door to Nothingness at mine, by the way, so I understand your anger.

Though I totally would've played that thing if I had any Evolving Wilds or dual lands or anything like that.

Yeah that's a pretty crappy rare. I did a sealed event and got these rares...

Void Stalker
Hamletback Goliath x2
Reverberate (Shiny)
Elvish Archdruid
Silklash Spider
Battle of Wits

I pulled too few red card for Reverb to work well and only one other Elf.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

It can't possibly be as bad as pulling Descent Into Madness. What an awful card, and Mythic too.

Not NEARLY as bad as Archangel's Light.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=244691

A card whose design just has me scratching my head. You would expect an 8 mana card to RAPIDLY end the game, not stall it out. In comparison a 9 mana HARDCASTED Entreat will basically assure the end of the game in a couple of turns. An 8 mana topdecked one will force them to have response or to scoop. I suppose it's good in a world where aggro-mill exists (ie. Jace's Phantasm). So... it's a sideboard card? Like, I can't conceive a world where this is even remotely playable.

Descent would actually be a decent finisher in some sort of discard (unlikely) or token (much more likely) based play. I've play tested a custom set before with a one-sided version of that, and at 5 mana, if you could hold on for two turns or so, you won the game. Period. You cannot recover from eating that much material loss and for the symmetrical case, losing tokens and such is not a huge deal. Battle of Wits on the other hand is unconditionally unplayable in limited, unless the format is nothing but tutors.

And I dunno why Wizards reprinted Battle of Wits. It's just un-fun. And it requires ridiculous amounts of tech, too. Like, you need ridiculous numbers of tutors to get it work. I can't think of a new spin they could put on it like other cards. It mandates a library larger than 200, and it mandates that you have something else get it into play because 4/200 is pretty weak odds.

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Archangel's Light is pretty bad but supposedly it's so awful because the original effect it had was gamebreaking and they didn't have enough time to created a balanced version of it, so they nerfed it into unplayability.

Makes me wonder what the original card was...

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Oh damn that was this weekend? I keep meaning to go to a prerelease (I haven't played in years, but that seems like it would be fun), but most of them don't work very well with being in school without a car.

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Battle of Wits is pro.

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battle of wits is the definition of fun!

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I'm judging a prerelease as I post this. Gotten lots of complaints from people who opened Battle of Wits.

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battle of wits is awesome

until you have to shuffle your deck....

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My store offered 5 packs to anyone that won off a resolved Battle of Wits trigger in just 1 game. Sadly no one went for it...

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From: fruitman456 | #019

My store offered 5 packs to anyone that won off a resolved Battle of Wits trigger in just 1 game. Sadly no one went for it...

Could it be a casual game?
Make a deck of 246 Islands and 4 BoWs
Play against a friend who's willing to do nothing
???
Profit

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