Gloomy Delver
Standard*
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FNM Report —April 21, 2012
4-0'd the FNM. Lost only one game.
2-0 Venser Control. He didn't see Venser once, I ran him over. Negate proved useful from sideboard, stopped DoJ/Gale.
2-1 WUGr Pod. Stupid pod decks! Weirdest sideboard plan: -1 Phantasmal Image, Mana Leak, Gitaxian Probe. +1 Celestial Purge, Dungeon Geists, Dissipate. It seemed to work, sortof? Need to put Grafdigger's Cage into sideboard just for this guy, I think.
2-0 RG Aggro. Complete blowout first game with a Mana Leak on a mana dork, then he couldn't do anything after that. Second game was slightly more 'fair', but still a beating. Drogskol Captain image'd twice hurts.
Finals 2-0 vs that Pod deck. First game I had a god hand of Delver, Leak, Darkslick Shores, Probe, Probe, Island, Captain. On the draw, drew a Delver. Probe revealed a slow hand except for Blade Splicer, he'd played Birds of Paradise, Probe drew me a Gut Shot which took out the bird. Delver and Darkslick... He played land and passed, Delver reveals a Ponder and flips, gets in for 3. Ponder shows me two Lingering Souls and a Glacial Fortress. Stack for delver flip next turn, play delver... It was over very quickly.
There, that looks better. Not convinced on Thought Scour yet, but I'll give it a chance. 1of Dungeon Geists to keep the curve as low as possible. 1of Revoke Existence because Curse of Death's Hold exists.
Playing with my Vampire Magic deck helped me see how to better determine how many of each card I really needed in the deck. There's a wide variety of things I want to do with Delver, but the be-all and end-all is 'Hit people in the face with flying dudes', and all of the card choices and amounts reflect that simple fact.
March 30, 2012 6:14 p.m.
Thought Scour is good but you gotta run Runechanter's Pike. It helps feeding the pike and finds target for Snappy.
You may want to take a look at your mana base though. You want a blue on turn one, so in my opinion, you should cut 1 or 2 Moorland Haunt, add 2 other Seachrome Coast. Also maybe -1x Glacial Fortress for +1x Darkslick Shores
I ran also this version at the game day of Dark Ascension, and trust me you WANT (:P) 4 Lingering Souls and 4 Drogskol Captain they're the bread and butter of the deck! For that you should cut Dissipate main board and keep em in the sideboard (as you already have)
And in the sideboard, run some [Negate]]s, because Corrosive Gale is a card you should fear !
Hope that helps!
March 30, 2012 7:31 p.m.
And if you want to annoy the hell out of Pod players, run Grafdigger's Cage!
March 30, 2012 7:33 p.m.
Cage is kinda vulnerable to removal though. ;)
I already have all the nonbasic lands in there that I own. I need a second Darkslick and a third Seachrome, replacing one of the Fortresses and Haunts.
And I'm already running Runechanter's Pike? ;)
BigBruce says... #1
LoL that's not sad, blue is good :P
But you talk about Snappy in your description, but he's nowhere to be found! :P
Love delver decks, I got one myself. +1!
March 30, 2012 5:56 p.m.