The flavor text on Battle of Wits is so good. "The wizard who reads a thousand books is powerful. The wizard the memorizes a thousand books is insane" And you do have to be insane to play this card, I'm loving it.
I think this might be one of the videos I've laughed at most this year. I loved it. Charlie - you are an absolute madlad for playing it in paper and presumably flipping thousands of cards into exile during the course of Eternal Weekend.
Battle of Vicksburg was right there lol Also, corner cases re: bouncelands - they can pick up triomes for future cycling, and with city of traitors you get around the sac by picking up the city before the sac trigger resolves
Despite how bad the deck is, I do really appreciate the absolute power move of registering into one of the most competitive legacy tournaments with this wonderfully massive stack of cards
A friend of mine played Battle of Wits at a regionals during Ravnica Standard. The deck had a whole package of cards that would either Transmute to Battle directly, or into a tutor that could go get it. He did surprisingly well.
It's really funny to me that at 43:00 you said that painter decks don't normally maindeck blood moon effects. The deck that originally got me into legacy was the old 6 moon mono red painter deck.
I wonder if it's right to only have one or two battle of wits in the deck to potentially cascade into instead of 4 so it doesn't kill your chains as often Literally as I posted this you said the same thing lol.
Let's be real, the right number of Battle of Wits is zero - normal Mississippi River is just the same plan but more consistent, there's no reason to play this except for the meme.
Yesterday you told us that MODERN is not a format in which we can chill and just control a little bit the board for 3 turns or else we die and today we have this on the channel :P
Legacy Battle of Wits? Oh I ain't even gotta watch (tho I will soon) to know to like this. Shit, I am faving too. Brian just reminding everyone that he is an absolute chad. Fuckin loaded ass unit of a player. Pay this OG some respect
Idea for a video. Single elimination bracket of the worst legacy decks of the year. Loser advances to the next round. Digerydoomsday vs Battle of the Mississippi finals ?
Decks so powerful it had to nerf itself by playing Battle of Wits! Either way a sweet league but that was a extremely improbable number of times to hit Battle in a row 😂
I Just wanted to ask why you conceded against the enchantres/RIP-Helm, bc i thought "battle triggers before your draw" but then i remembered that you wouldnt have a deck anymore 😅
I was gonna put this on to go to sleep to ready for The graveyard shift. I guess that's Phil's job today 😂 this deck is far too spicy. Hopefully his deck is super boring ;)
1 is the correct number of battle of wits, if you don't play it then you don't need 250 cards, then you are playing a 60 card optimize pile, so you might as well cut the cascade cards too, throw in a few force of wills, and waste lands then might as well use a few delvers and you are playing a completely different deck. Battle of wits is so bad, so you don't want more than one, but playing less than 1 you might as well play something better.
60 card Mississippi River is actually approaching a real deck. It's just an extremely consistent turn 3 win through one counter. Wasteland still hurts, but when the deck doesn't just kill itself half the time it's pretty playable.
It might actually be better to just have Battle of the Wits in the sideboard for matchups where Creative isn’t that good. It feels like you always want Creative and never Battle 😭
Is there something I am missing in match 2 game 2 against the RIP helm combo? Don't you win in the upkeep due to battle of wits before you would draw your card to lose to the mill?
Can someone clue me in on why Battle of Wits is undesired when cascading? Is it because it interrupts your cascade chain when you want to cascade into another cascade spell or a big creature? Is that not worse than immediately winning the game next turn when BoW triggers @ > 200 cards?
That’s the theory the deck is built around. The reality is you’re frequently just dead before you get to your upkeep if you don’t cascade into a bunch of creatures first.
@@BoshNRoll Cool, thank you. I was entirely unfamiliar with this deck and many of its cards before this video. When your opening deck tech first hit the screen, I believe my eyeballs doubled in size.
Although the upkeep step *is* before the draw step, 1) Battle of Wits wouldn't trigger because it has an intervening-if ("[comma] if [...] [comma]"), clause that was not active at the triggering point, and 2) even if the trigger was worded in a way to make it technically trigger, it still wouldn't do anything on resolution due to, you know, *having ZERO cards in deck instead of 200 or more* :P
As a ridiculous silver-border hypothetical followup to the above, namely using the card Split Screen, one could theoretically have one library with 0 cards in it and another with 200+ cards in it (Split Screen doesn't say to deal the cards "evenly", so you don't even need 900 cards or whatever to end up in this situation). Of course, even without Battle of Wits to preemptively win, you could still just choose NOT to choose the empty library as the library you draw from in the subsequent draw step. And unfortunately for this hypothetical, even if you were Mindslaver'd/Kindslaver'd, the same ability that lets the opponent choose to draw from the zero-card library would also let them choose a non-200+-card library for Battle of Wits to check.
