Delirious Death

Standard Zaueski

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abby315 says... #1

Only 19 lands? Am I missing something? With a top curve of 4 and then, at BEST, 6 (Emra with ALL of your card types in the GY), you should have 24-25. Red Deck Wins in standard, running a top curve of 3 but mostly 2, runs like 23 at least. It'll help you get keepable hands much more often.

July 10, 2016 8:24 p.m. Edited.

Zaueski says... #2

Honestly Emrakul is probably getting cut. I just had to try lol. The rest of the deck however functions great with that number of lands. The curve fits a low mana base better than most other decks. Also if you're running a RDW and have over 20 lands you're doing it wrong.

July 10, 2016 8:43 p.m.

HairyManBack says... #3

Yeah, I was tinkering with low land count in delirium builds. It actually works very well for a Standard deck.

Idk about you but I couldn't imagine myself not playing that one creature enchantment. Forgot the name but its 2G to cast and turns to a 4/4 hexproof trampler if delirium is active. It's so good with the Demon I can see me making a Modern build now.

July 12, 2016 8:27 p.m.

Zaueski says... #4

Yeah, I'm still tinkering with the build... I may add him in later but first I want to try it as a three color with blue, I'll update as soon as TappedOut uploads the rest of the cards

July 12, 2016 8:34 p.m.

AgentGreen says... #5

Interesting deck; but you're lacking 2 cards atm (I count 58)

July 13, 2016 11:51 a.m.

Zaueski says... #6

AgentGreen the two missing cards are Lunar Force which I stated in the description because TappedOut hasn't added it yet.

July 13, 2016 12:09 p.m.

AgentGreen says... #7

Oh, my bad. Sorry.

Having said that it's a great deck for a derlium enabler. Little unsure about Emmy, but if you can pull her off that would be awesome

July 13, 2016 12:41 p.m.

Zaueski says... #8

Emmy is realistically a 6-7 drop spell in my deck, especially with Traverse the Ulvenwald to search her out... she's actually doing really well in testing and helps a lot against the late game board stalls


I think I'm more worried about the blue splash, do you think its worth it? Are there better options I'm missing? Would you go a different color?

July 13, 2016 1:08 p.m.

Countermage says... #9

I don't this Blue is completely necessary, but is has the cards to pull it through, such as Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Kiora, Master of the Depths, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  Flip and Lunar Force (which I love), to name a few.

I'd add Crop Sigil mainboard too.

July 14, 2016 8:33 a.m.

Countermage says... #10

sorry, Tamiyo is completely wrong here lol

July 14, 2016 8:34 a.m.

Zaueski says... #11

Countermage, I've been considering Kiora for a long time now and Lunar Force is already in the deck, they just haven't added the card yet (that's a deck link you posted).

July 14, 2016 9 a.m.

Countermage says... #12

Yeah I know, I was just saying your idea of using it on a Delirium deck is great :) Let me know how Kiora works for you

July 14, 2016 11:42 a.m.

sweatyllama69 says... #13

good idea adding white for good cards like sorin and declaration, i wouldn't have thought of that.

July 19, 2016 8:36 a.m.

Zaueski says... #14

Thanks sweatyllama69. I originally had blue as the third color but I noticed more and more as I played that it was almost always a dead card for like every single one and I wanted more removal, so now I'm giving White a try.

July 19, 2016 9:11 a.m.

IzzetGod says... #15

I'm not high up on Not Forgotten. Is it just there so you can re-use something like Traverse the Ulvenwald's Delirium effect again? Also, maybe Sinister Concoction over Murder maybe?

July 19, 2016 7:25 p.m.

Zaueski says... #16

Not Forgotten is there in case I mill something I didn't want to, its ability to hit any card and making me a blocker makes it worth it, it is being tested heavily as I am a bit wary at this time too.

July 19, 2016 7:36 p.m.

Melanthios says... #17

What about Cemetery Recruitment? It goes to your hand as opposed to the Library, and thusly can avoid things like further mill or a possible Mind's Dilation. Question, with all this swinging Delirium, why not throw in an Always Watching , which is amazing with Topplegeist and Grim Flayer, oh and lastly, Strange Augmentation with Delirium is +3/+3 for ... Pretty nutty if you ask me! I like a lot of this though.

July 22, 2016 4:48 a.m.

Zaueski says... #18

Cemetery Recruitment can only hit creatures so it isnt as useful, I may try to finagle a few Always Watching in but the double white is killer on my mana base. Strange Augmentation is good and was in the original list but just didn't make the cut in the long run.

July 22, 2016 5:08 a.m.

cjwilliams180 says... #19

Very nice deck! I would suggest maybe 1 Grasp of Darkness in exchange for a murder just to kill early game threats quicker. And perhaps move in 1x ishkanah from board, probably dropping a gnarlwood dryad. Ishkanah is 4 bodies with reach for 5 mana and that is ridiculously good to gunk the board so you can make it to turn 6 or 7. Also you don't have a 5 drop mainboard and you have 3 tutors. That is all.

July 23, 2016 3:57 a.m.

Zaueski says... #20

cjwilliams180, those are a lot of good points... I'll think them over for sure. Any update wont happen til Sunday though.

July 23, 2016 7:20 a.m.

Nice deck. I tried it against my Grixis Donate build and it got me pretty good with the Mindwrack Demons. One of the games, however, your deck had a really hard time with mana. Your one of plains was milled and I wasn't able to draw one until late in the game. By that point, my deck had been picking off your creatures, that you weren't able to produce more that one or two at a time because you were stuck with 5 dead cards in hand. Not sure if you want to take that into consideration, or how you'd even fix that, it's just something that might happen due to nature of your deck.

July 25, 2016 10:54 p.m.

Zaueski says... #22

I haven't had any mana troubles yet but I will test it out with one more Plains and see if it runs smoother now. Statistically, even a perfect mana base will mess up every 1 in 7-9 games so as long as it isn't happening regularly I'm not too worried. Thanks for the feedback

July 26, 2016 12:10 a.m.

Omeros says... #23

Try a one of Sinister Concoction in place of one of your flex slots - not replacing an unconditional removal spell like Murder though. It can be great for enabling delirium early but you really don't want multiples because it's card disadvantage but since your curve is so low you will often be able to pitch a land to it.

July 28, 2016 9:13 p.m.

Zaueski says... #24

Hmm, I don't think I want it in the main deck, but it does seem like a better option than Collective Brutality or Prey Upon in the sideboard... I think I'll test it out there.

July 28, 2016 9:53 p.m.

Very good deck! I would like to suggest an Infinite Obliteration because it can shut down so many decks and get rid of avacyn and maybe a Languish just as a sweeper.

July 31, 2016 11:51 p.m.

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