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Delver is terrible in this deck. It really is and this is no exaggeration. In all my games with this deck I've very rarely ever won on the back of Delvers. The best it does is absorb Plows for...

I did the math wrong, it's true that DRit is essentially +1 on Thought Scour. However, you don't need to waste your turn 1 on Scour necessarily. You can turn 1 fetch into Ponder/TSeize (2 in yard),...

In slower games I do get to cast the second Angler pretty often, though it's still a very bad card to draw in multiples early. I haven't tried 4 yet, though 3 is perfectly doable, so 4 shouldn't be...

Thought Scour is as fast as DRit at rushing Anglers. DRit is +2 mana, Scour is +2 cards in yard. Given that the card you draw off it could be the zero mana spell you needed in addition to cast Angler...

Well, I'm still not sure about a 5 drop creature in a deck that otherwise tries everything it can to never have 5 lands in play. We have the lowest mana curve in Legacy with every standard maindeck...

Well, now we all know this was secretly the reason why Borrower was playable in the first place. Both halves of the card are Pauper material at best, but getting a free card is just that powerful in...

Mystical Dispute is probably the best one mana counter spell we have access to. Apart from killing a resolved Delver and dodging Veil it does most of what Pyroblast does. Dispel is just too narrow.
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As sad as that is, Between Oko, Coatl and Veil of Summer being in almost every fair deck at the moment UB Shadow just doesn't have a place in Legacy beyond being a Budget Tempo deck. All of those...

To be honest, topdecking a Thoughtseize late in the game isn't the universal boon and combo potential you make it out to be. You're at 5 against a deck with Bolts and your Shadows are staring down a...

I tried to make clear from the beginning that I'm not trying to say UB Delver was an objectively better deck than Shadow, I'm only saying it's currently my personal choice for a number of reasons,...

It's a pretty bold argument saying that UB Shadow was real when it has posted zero results in its entire lifespan, assuming we're talking about the Delverless build here because the rest of your post...

Surely Delver is at its best when paired with some sort of reach, that's true and the main reason why it's not that great in Shadow decks. Big vanilla critters simply don't profit from Delver chip...

There is some tension of course, though with 4 Thought Scour the tension hasn't been a major problem. Once you realize that you should always mill your opponent with the first Scour in the dark (aka...

I've been tinkering with Vantress Gargoyles as well and the card has been performing very well, though I think I wouldn't want to miss out on Thought Scour to power up both Gargoyles and Anglers....

Splashing is generally very awkward in this deck, because most of the time you will end up losing full control of either your colors or your life total when fetching up lands. This is why I always...

Top 8ed a local 6-rounder this weekend.

Overall the deck felt very strong against everything that wasn't a fair Brainstorm mirror. Most of those come with either Lightning Bolts or Swords to...

If we could play Thoightseize 5 and 6 I would see an argument for dedicating those 2 flex slots to more discard, however, not being able to hit stuff like Karn, the Great Creator, Urza, Auriok...

While I too was never a fan of that list he did say he wasn't sure whether it was still good in the new metagame, so I wouldn't take W6 and other such cards as big arguments against his reasoning of...

You can't really make the same arguments because all those cards are much different in mainly 2 ways: 1) Shadow requires you to have a low life total and 2) Shadow can grow bigger than all of the...

In addition to the above, I'd also argue that Death's Shadow itself is much weaker as a card when it isn't surrounded by a tempo-oriented shell. A big dumb critter without evasion will actually be...

This has been true for the majority of Delver decks over the years, but still Uxy Tempo has always been a tier 1 strategy for the last 20 years or so. And it has never been as easy as it seems to...

I don't think the comparison is fair either, Arcanist is a significantly better card than JVP because it 1) virtually generates mana, 2) it works every turn unlike JVP who only flashbacks something...

Agree with the above. Contentious Plans is a very good focused answer to Chalice, but obviously a much worse card overall that doesn't have any other applications really. I've been liking a split...

In response to Trophy being on the map I'd also like to mention the possibility to play basics.

Even before Trophy was a thing I included one of each basic in order to beat the many Loam/B2B/Blood...

Played UB Shadow for the first time today and 3-0 (6-0'd) a local tournament. I must say the deck feels really strong, even after I thought it was going to lose steam once the hype around CFB's...