Card/Deck Making Delver Work

[Jason Waddell]

Also, going up to x4 wasteland instead of Strip Mine/Tectonic Edge/Rishadan Port was the best thing for my environment in a long time (Though damn is that expensive if you don't proxy. Dat Judge Foil Price)

Am I the only one who gold borders around here?

 

[Chris Taylor]

I just don't like the illustration of the tempest one, so I just proxy the pretty one

 

[Chris Taylor]

For those wondering, here's a list of everything gold border available:
http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/World_Championship_Decks
The collector's edition stuff just looks like alpha cards, so I assume they're a little better known.

There's some sweet stuff in there, including wasteland (as jason mentioned), rishadan port, and 3 onslaught fetchlands (Not UB or RG)

 

[Konge]

4 euros; not bad, and much prettier than a Tec Edge with two sharpie-lines on it. Port is very interesting to find there, since it doesn't have an elegant "sibling" to errata. Neither of them have warranted the high price tag for us yet, so this is an ideal possibility. Heck, it's still better than our fetches/shocks/duals which are all guildgates.

 

[Chris Taylor]

I've actually found port to be really lackluster in comparison to wasteland
The extra mana it takes each turn really hurts when you don't have AEther Vial every game

 

[CML]

hehe i love those cards. after giving Legacy D&T a try last night for the first time (god knows why, since i've been oedipal for mother of runes since 2000) i have no desire to play any other deck in that format. port is INSANE with vial and fairly useless without it.

when i tried goblins about a year ago, i noticed port was often better than waste, as that mana-hungry deck can often not afford to stone rain itself permanently. "I Tiresias have foreseen mana-screw"

you think Wasteland could work in the CML cube now? http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/114

 

[Lucre]

I'm so glad this thread is flourishing. Anyone had any vast changes in the viability of delver? Have delvers ever become just a good card anyone can be excited about?

 

[Dom Harvey]

no

 

[Konge]

Going back to cards which may buff blue tempo: What's the verdict on Unified Will?

 

[Jason Waddell]

Going back to cards which may buff blue tempo: What's the verdict on Unified Will?

I think it's fine but don't really see it as being more effective in tempo than something like Evasive Action, Miscalculation, Mana Leak, etc.

 

[Jason Waddell]

But note that I play a very mana constrained environment, and value those cards above Counterspell in almost all of my decks.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Going back to cards which may buff blue tempo: What's the verdict on Unified Will?

I've found this as well. It's surprising how often a random manland activation or solemn simulacrum the other side of the table will ruin your day trying to counter a planeswalker or something

 

[Konge]

Also, Mana Breach could be a decent one-card replacement for a respectable suite of disruption - although crucial cards (or removal) is much easier to sneak through..

 

[CML]

I hate Unified Will. Don't you want your cards to work?

 

[FlowerSunRain]

I played an aggressive blue deck yesterday. I was fighting for white dudes with a guy in boros. My deck just didn't have the density of low cmc threats I needed. I needed a Welkin Tern, but instead I had Thasa who I am now pretty convinced is awful and will be immediately replaced by a generic beater that can't even block right because sometimes you need it since someone else is getting all of the cheap creatures in your other color. Delver would have sucked in my deck, unfortunately.

Ordeal of Thasa, unlike the sea god herself, was a real beating when I drew it. Thasa didn't even make my deck and I'm starting to wonder what deck even wants her.

 

[Jason Waddell]

Delver has been playable in my cube already, but next update I am going up to 3 Brainstorms and adding in Bonfire of the Damned.