Too many instants?
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Posted on June 9, 2015, 1:36 p.m. by canterlotguardian
I'm trying to build RUG Delver control for my local Modern tournament, but I'm not sure if I have too many instants in my deck. Any help would be appreciated (even if it's just about the deck in general).
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SCORE: 1 | 2 COMMENTS | 180 VIEWScanterlotguardian says... #3
I had Serum Visions in the list already, but since I'm still building this deck, I dropped them because I own exactly 0 of them already and I don't believe in spending 12 dollars for a common. Are there any other cards that I could substitute that do a comparable effect for not 12 dollars each?
June 9, 2015 2 p.m.
Ponder and Preordain. But they're both banned, which is why Serum Visions is so expensive.
I second pretty much everything Slycne said, except I'm not really sure how efficient Delver would even be if you built this as more of a control deck. My recommendation would be to drop some of your more expensive threats and focus on playing a tempo game.
June 9, 2015 2:07 p.m.
Alternatively, if you really want to go for a midrange tempo/attrition, throw in some Goyfs. Not exactly budget friendly.
Either way, +1 just for the name.
June 9, 2015 2:09 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #6
I added in the Hellkites and Sarkhan because I'm not the kind of person that likes pinging my opponent to death with 8000 tiny spells. That's why I don't play Storm. I like burn and giant creatures, but I also like control and Delver. I thought I'd made a decent attempt at balancing those, but I guess not. :P
Slycne says... #2
It's hard to have "too many" instants when playing Delver of Secrets Flip. I think the bigger issue is that you've split yourself from being a tempo deck and being a control deck. Stuff like Cyclonic Rift and Vapor Snag have merit when you're the classic stick a threat and keep your opponent off balance style deck, but these are miserable for actually controlling the game since you're giving up card advantage. On the flipside Thundermaw Hellkite and Sarkhan Unbroken are threats that just clog up your hand when you're trying to be on the tempo gameplan.
Either way a few thoughts
Atarka's Command, Manamorphose, Reverberate, and Index are simply just bad here. There are far better spells like Mana Leak and Serum Visions that should be run instead.
If you want to be more of the Delver of Secrets Flip tempo deck, cut the highend and run more low threats like Young Pyromancer.
If you want to be more of a control deck, cut the spells that don't trade resources and replace with lands so you actually can cast 4-5 drops.
June 9, 2015 1:50 p.m. Edited.