The problem with Battle of Wits is that when you consider you will need 200 cards in your deck once it hits the battlefield and that it might take several (or many) turns to get Battle of Wits on the battlefield, you will need to play somewhere around 240 cards to make Battle of Wits work, which means you're increasing your deck size by 300%, which in turn leads to a massive drop in consistency, to the point where Battle of Wits simply isn't worth the cost in competitive decks
Ignoble Hierarch A powerful mana dork Ignoble Hierarch is a one-mana Green 0/1 that you can tap for Black, Red or Green mana
Though this deck doesn't run a lot of Illusions , having an easy way to recur them means even a couple can prove difficult for your opponent to deal with as they keep coming back again and again
Whether its a card signed by the artist or a crimped foil, these oddities are treasures worth preserving
If you do, until Vesuvan Shapeshifter is turned face down, it becomes a copy of that creature, except it has At the beginning of your upkeep, you may turn this creature face down. Vesuvan Shapeshifter normally costs five mana, but you can cast it as a morph card for three, and then it only costs two mana to flip
