Honored Delver of Tempo

Standard Delver GWU (Bant)

DukeofSam

Creature (16)

• 1x Archangel Avacyn  ^Flip
• 2x Bounding Krasis
• 4x Dimensional Infiltrator
• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 2x Harbinger of the Tides
• 4x Honored Hierarch
• 2x Reflector Mage

Land (26)

• 3x Canopy Vista
• 3x Forest
• 4x Fortified Village
• 2x Island
• 3x Plains
• 4x Port Town
• 3x Prairie Stream
• 4x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Gryff's Boon
• 3x Silkwrap
• 1x Stasis Snare
• 1x Stratus Walk

Instant (11)

• 3x Clash of Wills
• 3x Dromoka's Command
• 2x Horribly Awry
• 3x Ojutai's Command

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Declaration in Stone

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Hermit of the Natterknolls  ^Flip
• 1x Rattlechains
• 1x Topplegeist

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Invocation of Saint Traft
• 1x Ongoing Investigation

Instant (6)

• 1x Clip Wings
• 1x Comparative Analysis
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Invasive Surgery
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pulse of Murasa

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I very much enjoy building control/tempo decks that use small creatures as win conditions. Somewhat inspired by Travis Woo's Honored Hierarch build in the previous standard I am giving it a go in Shadows Over Inistrad. My main reservation about this deck is that you need an untapped turn one to make the most of Honored Hierarch, but green isn't a colour that much supports the decks game plan after that. This isn't a problem if you get the Honored Hierarch and he goes renown because you have free colour fixing from then on out. But should we not find Honored Hierarch turn one and instead have to pull off a similar win with Dimensional Infiltrator the over representation of in the mana base may become an issue. The deck is far from perfect and I would welcome any recommendations anyone has. No sideboard for now as I'm still testing and tweaking the deck.

The games plan in a nutshell:

Ensure Honored Hierarch or Dimensional Infiltrator are in your starting hand with a way to play them on turn 1 or 2 respectively.

Clear a path for Honored Hierarch with one of many options: Declaration in Stone, Clash of Wills,Dromoka's Command, Gryff's Boon, Horribly Awry, Silkwrap or Stratus Walk.

Keep the board clear of anything which causes your clock on your opponent to be slower than you have on them and beat them round the face with annoying 2 attack creatures.

EDIT: After some play I've noticed two problems to the deck. SOI 3 colour mana bases are jankey and slow. When the land falls in place as you need it to u burn through your hand very rapidly. To fix this I've added more forests to help with the turn one play and am considering a value engine, Ongoing Investigation actually seems quite promising.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	62
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Clue
Folders	2016=4=9