Removal in a Delver of Secrets Flip Deck

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Posted on March 14, 2012, 5:35 p.m. by DarasuumKote28

So I've recently made a deck, You Get to Burn the Delver. It works pretty well, but there keeps on being situations where I don't have the answers I'm looking for, and I don't win fast enough. When I don't win, it's usually because the game drags out so that I lose momentum, and when I draw something such as a Feeling of Dread or Revoke Existence, I think, "Crap, that's not going to help besides delay the inevitable." I'm going to splash black for Lingering Souls, and so I'm wondering, what else would be good against creatures/planeswalkers that I have access to? Doom Blades to kill stuff? Go for the Throats? Another 2 Gitaxian Probes or even Forbidden Alchemy to do digging?

DarasuumKote28 says... #2

Oh, and I would prefer if the suggestions were instants/sorceries, for that crucial Delver flip. I love me some Oblivion Ring, but that don't flip no Delver. (And as a side not, please consider what's best for the current metagame- GftT, Doom Blade, etc.)

March 14, 2012 5:41 p.m.

BuLLZ3Y3 says... #3

Vapor Snag is generally considered the go to for "removal" in any delver deck. Generally the black splash is just used for Lingering Souls, as the rest of the deck is U/W utilizing Drogskol Captain, Phantasmal Image, and Dungeon Geists.

However, if you are doing a more dedicated U/B version, I would suggest Go for the Throat or Tragic Slip, or some amount of both. Gopher is better at the moment because Zombie's are a really popular deck and very cheap (Minus Snapcaster Mages and Phantasmal Images]]), so Doom Blade is currently being hated out. There's also the popular U/B Control decks, which are running 2-3 Grave Titan as their main Win-Con.

I'd go with a mixture of both Go for the Throat and Tragic Slip. What Go for the Throat can't kill (mainly Inkmoth Nexus), Tragic Slip can.

-BuLLZ3Y3

March 14, 2012 7:11 p.m.

DarasuumKote28 says... #4

Thanks, that's pretty much what I thought, I guess, but I was hoping someone would have an innovative take on it. I may do something like 2-of each, or maybe even just one-of.

March 14, 2012 7:31 p.m.

BuLLZ3Y3 says... #5

Well, you could always run Geth's Verdict or Tribute to Hunger, but the double black for Verdict might be difficult. I would suggest the Tribute's on side though, in case you run into any hexproof shenanigans or a deck that out races you.

-BuLLZ3Y3

March 14, 2012 7:37 p.m.