This is my take on a Mage-Blade build alongside veryone's favorite wizard, Delver of Secrets
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Card Breakdown:
Delver of Secrets
is here to destroy people. He flips to hit for 3 flying consistently. On top of that, he only costs one blue mana. That's beautiful!
Snapcaster Mage is here to do what he does best, flashback bad times for the enemy. Duh?!
Geist of Saint Traft is probably my favorite non-standard legal creature in this entire game. (Fight me, I dare you.) I love angels, especially when they'll hit the enemy in the face as a slight surprise. (Not really because it's on the card, but you get my point.) He's just dirty alongside Delver.
Thundermaw Hellkite
may seem more than a little out of place, but he has great merit. 1.) Mirror Matches. He kills in them, tap your flipped delvers, hit you for 5, then just sit back and laugh at your stunned face.2.) Haste. He hits immediately, so just have a whole quarter of your life gone for my 5 mana that just tapped your flyers. Such fun.3. Flying. Apparently people have trouble dealing with things that can fly? What? That's a thing? Oh yeah, it is. ;) Have fun with that.
Lightning Bolt for those really fun shenanigans and kill-shots. Wroks very well with Delver for all the funsies of hitting your for 6 for two mana, one I spent the previous turn.
Path to Exile... I was on the ropes about it at first, and still hesitate to use it, because it allows you to ramp, but in the end, it made the cut and helps me out when I just can't stop your creatures. So now that I've said I can;t, just know I no can because of this card. ;) I'm still sitting pretty here, whilst you die! (with an extra basic land now :p )
Vapor Snag is more than Cyclonic Rift. Period. End of story. Overload, smoverload. I lvoe me some Vapor Snag.
Lightning Helix is like a better version of
Warleader's Helix
, and I FREAKING love it! It's like this: Bolt you, swing in with flipped delver, AND HIT FOR THREE MORE AND GAIN 3 FOR TWO MANA!!! That's 9 damage and 3 lifegain for, like, a total of 4 mana.
Mana Leak is for those early counters, or for the late-game, big-time spell I just stopped because you tried to tap-out for it.
Remand stops your strategy AND LET'S ME DRAW! I love it so much! Annnddddd.... If you're tenacious enough to do it again next turn, I'll jsut Mana Leak it for the lulz.
Swords are the obvious necessity of the build, as it is MAGE-BLADE!!! Plus, they're damn-near broken. I love them too.
So, hit me with your best shot, Multiverse!
