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I think the Data speaks more to how prevelant delver of secrets is, ten months ago, when everyone wanted to play TNN, the best way to beat it was to go over it's head and race it, Delver does just that, coupled with Liliana and hymn to tourach, you hardly care about TNN.
It's still doesn't change the fact TNN is actually lazy and somewhat insulting design, it does however speak that the card itself isn't format warping, at least not in a format with Delver
Players are prepared for TNN, just like they're prepared for Stoneforge Mystic.
TNN has definitely become ubiquitous to to the point where decks either have a gameplan against it, or are able to ignore it. I don't see it as format-warping, and in my locals not a lot of TNN decks have placed highly.
You answer the equips, or Terminus them, or just kill them. You can get beat by 3x TNN nut draws, but it's not any faster than 3x Delver nut draws.
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Losing to True-Name Nemesis is a rare event these days unless Umezawa's Jitte or Sword of Fire and Ice is along for the ride. It's a big beat down in either of those cases but TNN itself is not usually a problem. Vendilion Clique is more of a beating because it has flash and it forces your hand at EoT so it's harder to manage as a result. There are so many ways to deal with either of them at this point that it's hard to see them as a major problem.
Delver of Secrets is the problem.
I'm just pointing out that TNN and Clique both are blue-styled control cards with limited tempo use. Delver is a red or green styled card with heavy tempo applications. It actually appears in top 8's in decent numbers at this point, which neither of the other two cards do.
Would you still see Delver as ok if it was just a Merfolk Guide that dropped for and started attacking for 2 each turn?
Jelly, Delver is way outside its colour. It's like printing Counterspell in Green. It's not that Blue only has bad one drops, I mean Judges Familiar is flavourful and good, it's just not a beat down creature. But it's definitely a not Blue. Delver feels more Green/Red to me and it really is a problem.
And what if I were to ask you how Griselbrand would be if it was just a Force of Grisel that cost and countered spells? It's dumb and I don't care.
Delver of Secrets is clearly a good creature, but it is not oppressively good and it neither breaks flavor or mechanics. Every color, even into the modern day, has a history of aggressively costed beaters that are balanced by an in-color drawback. Blue just happened to, after enough iterations, get one that worked.
A 3/2 flying for 1 mana is, in my opinion, a broken creature card for this game, and it's totally out of the blue color to have such a creature; the fact that blue can protect it or flip it more easily than the other colors it's another problem.
If you own legacy cards why would you ever play such a miserable deck? A game of Dr. Mario is more entertaining than a linear pile like Oops all Dicks. The reason it isn't played more is because people want to have some level of involvement in the game ... also most people interested in legacy have some ability to obtain real cards.
The "Oops All Spells" deck is basically a worse version of Belcher that is vulnerable to graveyard hate. So it's vulnerable to Storm hate AND graveyard hate. Fail.
There's no reason to play the "Oops All Spells" deck over ANT, TES, Belcher, Elves or Dredge. All five of those decks are superior combo decks.
I think this is a little disingenuous - blue's aggressive creatures have historically had pretty severe drawbacks been comparatively expensive for their bodies. Maybe I'm forgetting some examples because I took a break for a few years around Worldwake but when it comes to non-Merfolk blue beaters, I still think Spindrift Drake, Serendib Efreet, Waterspout Djinn, and Sea Drake. Not exactly powerhouses. I don't think Delver should be banned, but I really dislike it and its effect on the format.
What about it is totally out of blue's color? Does it flip when you gain ten life? Does it have deathtouch and first strike? No, it has flying and it flips on instants and sorceries. But clearly it's not something blue can mechanically do, and besides, blue's not allowed to get good creatures.
it's trigger to flip is appropriate an no one is disputing that, but what the resulting creature is after if flips is too powerful. a 3/2 is too good. had it have been a 2/1 flying faerie, that would have been appropriate. for all relative purposes it could be a 3/1 and just as good. the point is that a 3 power creature with evasion for 1 mana is too powerful outside of the green/red color wheel. in fact, green only has 1 creature even comparable, wild nactal, and yet it doesn't fly or have trample even. The other color i would expect it in is red and red doesn't have anything but goblin guide. the next color i would expect is black, with maybe a 3 life loss draw back like a carnophage. even before i expected it in blue i would have seen it in white as an angel.
the fact that it flips so easily makes it a 3/2 flyer for 1 just as wild nactal is a 3/3 for 1. if green had the choice it would gladly give up that 1 toughness to give nactal flying. so comparatively blue has THE best 1 drop creature ever printed. this under no circumstances should not happen, nor would anyone have ever expected it to.
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Not when they're so cheap to cast. Pyschatog and Morphling are blue creatures that made sense. The condition of Pyschatog to pump, or the higher casting cost and mana-intense usage of Morphling made them on style. Delver is a Sligh creature, and doesn't belong in blue. Blue Sligh = Merfolk, or it's being done wrong.
EDIT: The words used by Apple made a much more compelling argument.
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