Grixis DELVE with Delver
Sideboarding Guide note this isn't a hard and fast guide
Tier 1
Burn (depends on their build if blood moon will or will not come in, eg mono red for three color)
In (9): 2 Blood Moon, 4 Deaths Shadow, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Spellskite, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out (9): 4 Gitaxian Probe, 2 Remand, 2 Gurmag Angler, 1 Olivia
Abzan (in this match up they can clog the skies too easily with souls, and if we can make their Abrupt decays dead cards the better served we are, in addition we want reach but bolt gets outclassed by the thoughness of their creatures)
In (6): 2 Blood Moon, 1 Jace, Architect of Thought, 1 Sower of Temptation, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Engineered Explosives
Out(6): 4 Delver of Secrets, 2 Lightning Bolt
Twin (post board they will likely remove their pestermites and some number of combo pieces and transform into a bad tempo deck, we still have to hedge)
In (5): 1 Counterflux, 1 Jace, Architect of Thought, 1 Slaughter Games, 1 Spellskite, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out (5): 2 Lightning Bolt, 2 Remand, 1 Gurmag Angler
Affinity (probes and remands go dead when the vast majority of their hand is being vomited onto the table for free or near free, EE is there to deal with problem permanents, spellskite to protect against champion beats)
In (6): 2 Engineered Explosives, 1 Sower of Temptation, 1 Jace, Architect of Thought 1 Spellskite, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out (6): 4 Gitaxian Probe, 2 Remand
Infect(use your removal at sorcery speed if you can in order to force their pump spells, while in some matches we can afford to fall behind a little bit in tempo with Deprive, this isn't one of the matches)
In (7): 2 Blood Moon, 2 Engineered Explosives, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Spellskite, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out(7): 2 Gurmag Angler, 1 Gitaxian Probe, 2 Deprive, 2 Remand
Tier 2
Merfolk (one of the most linear aggro decks there is shadow does work in this match up much like most aggro decks)
In (8): 4 Deaths Shadow, 2 Engineered Explosives, 1 Sower of Temptation, 1 Stubborn Denial.
Out(8): 4 Gurmag Angler, 2 Remand, 2 Gitaxian Probe
Living End(were built pretty well to handle living end, kommand obviously doesnt shine here)
In (2): 1 Slaughter Games, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out(2): 2 Kolaghans Command
UWR(this is more geared towards the controlling version of the deck, delver is a bit fragile when theyre slinging bolts, helix and pte)
In (4): 2 Blood Moon, 1 Counterflux, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out(4): 4 Delver of Secrets
Zoo (similar strategy to burn)
In (8): 2 Blood Moon, 4 Deaths Shadow, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Spellskite,
Out (8): 4 Gitaxian Probe, 2 Remand, 2 Stubborn Denial
Bogles (this match up is a race, unless we drop spellskite and can hold off their attempt at voltron, shadow again does work, unless theyve got their anti creature enchantment)
In (10): 4 Deaths Shadow, 2 Blood Moon, 2 Engineered Explosives, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Spellskite
Out(10): 4 Gurmag Angler, 1 Olivia Voldaren, 2 Terminate, 1 Dismember, 2 Remand
Little Kid Abzan (similar to regular junk, delver just gets outclassed, and one of kommands best modes goes to waste if you power out one of their leiges)
In (7): 2 Blood Moon, 2 Engineered Explosvies, 1 Jace, Architect of Thought, 1 Sower of Temptation, 1 Flashfreeze
Out(7): 2 Kolaghans Command, 1 Stubborn Denial, 4 Delver of Secrets,
Jund (drop delver in an attempt to make their decays and IOKs much worse in addition to being a fragile threat)
In (4): 2 Blood Moon, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
Out(4): 4 Delver of Secrets
Tron(our counter suite already aligns nicely against them, this is match up comes down to tempo, most of our threats cant be pyroclasmd, so its o stone or karn or bust, if we land a T2 fatty with denial back up it goes a long way)
In (5): 2 Blood Moon, 1 Slaughter Games, 1 Sower of Temptation, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out(5): 1 Dismember, 1 Olivia Voldaren, 2 Gitaxian Probe, 1 Lightning bolt
Scapeshift(We are the aggro deck and kommand while good isnt amazing when theyre packing 2-4 baloths)
In (7): 2 Blood Moon, 1 Slaughter Games, 1 Counterflux, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Stubborn Denial, 1 Spellskite
Out(7): 1 Dismember, 1 Olivia Voldaren, 2 Kolagans Command, 2 Gitaxian Probe, 1 Gurmag Angler
Amulet(you cant beat their nut draw, but with alot of cheap counter magic you can often stabilize, more than likely theyll cut their Azusas so our bolts become less effective)
In (6): 2 Blood Moon, 1 Slaughter Games, 1 Counterflux, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out(6): 1 Dismember, 1 Olivia Voldaren, 2 Gurmag Angler, 2 Lightning Bolt
Up and Coming
Esper Mentor(similar play patterns to UWR, theyre usually packing 30 spells so denial does a ton of work in this match up)
In (6): 2 Blood Moon, 2 Engineered Expolsives, 1 Jace, Architect of Though, 1 Stubborn Denial
Out(6): 4 Delver of Secrets, 2 Gitaxian Probe
Collected Company(counterflux is a concession to wanting a counterspell that can tag anything)
In (4): 1 Slaughter Games, 1 Sower of Temptation, 1 Flashfreeze, 1 Counterflux
Out(4): 2 Stubborn Denial, 2 Remand
