Battle of Wits
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ninth Edition9ED · #65★
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 34.99 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Edward P. Beard, Jr.
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-07-29
Flavour text
The wizard who reads a thousand books is powerful. The wizard who memorizes a thousand books is insane.
Rulings
Battle of Wits has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” This means that if you don’t have 200 or more cards in your library at the beginning of your upkeep, the ability won’t trigger. If the ability does trigger, but you have fewer than 200 cards in your library when the ability resolves, the ability will do nothing.
In tournaments, you must be able to shuffle your entire deck within a reasonable amount of time.
