2 UR Delver
2 URW Delver
1 BUG Delver
1 RUG Delver
1 UB Tezzeret
1 Punishing Maverick
Well color me impressed.
Anyone have any thoughts on meta direction, or is this just what people sort of "thought would happen"? Props to Maverick and Tezz.
Here is the link to the top 8 profiles: http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/c...cytop8profiles
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Last edited by ironclad8690; 10-26-2014 at 04:53 PM.
MTGO is completely overrun with (UR) Delver decks, too. ~30% of the placing decks are Delver decks right now, with UR being the most popular variant, with the numbers only increasing.
And we also got got a taste where the meta is heading on stream, where most of the rounds where either Delver vs something or Delver mirrors.
I don't think the meta direction the format is currently taking is a healthy one. We might see TC being banned at least in Modern and Legacy.
I'm also suprised that D&T wasn't placing, since it's pretty good in that kind of meta, despite TC being overpowered.
Props to Nate and Zach for playing awesome decks.
Maverick list has 2 Domri Rade, 1 Voice of Resurgence, no black splash (!), and a Tabernacle in the sideboard.
Just a hypothetical question: If Treasure Cruise were banned, do you think the delver-decks would just jam 4 Dig Through Time and still be almost as powerful and ubiquitous?
I'd find it hilarious if TC were banned and not BS when Survival was banned and not Vengevine. WotC reasoning at its finest really.
Here you go.
The meta is evolving rapidly. UR is already on par with Miracles on MTGO, and likely to overtake it really soon. People are quickly catching up how stupid good TC is.
Both are problematic in my opinion. And the situation is hardly comparable.
I guess this is my 'told you so' moment.
Not surprised by Domri Rade's effectiveness. Domri Rade was always a good planeswalker, but the entire source community was against it. The card draws and destroys creatures for 3 mana; that's good. Just because you have to build your deck around it doesn't mean it sucks. Interesting note is that the other non-delver deck in the top 8 also builds around a narrow planeswalker, namely Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas.
The suprising thing is that he only runs only 21 creatures and no Sylvan Library to set it up.
I wonder how good a single Courser of Kruphix would be here. Seems good with Domri and stupid good with all the fetches/KotR shuffle effects.
Courser of Kruphix sounds good with Domri Rade indeed. in addition to the obvious synergy with Domri Rade, the life gain looks very relevant with decks like Delver becoming more and more burn-centric.
Then why is Bahra with D&T stomping the shit out of them? That doesn't compute. He's currently doing very well in the dailies.
E.g. in yesterday's DE, he went 4-0, facing UR Delver 3x in the first three rounds (and went 6-1 overall against them) and Sneak & Show in the last one.
Forked Bolt is a new hate card, but D&T players already build their deck with TNN hate in mind.
I think Electrickery is better than forked bolt because it kills swarms of Young Pyromancer tokens as well as TNN, unflipped delvers and elves.dec. It can't kill a 2 toughness creature though.
Electrickery is a good card, but you can't kill TNN with damage since it has protection.
Edit: Stream is back, UZ Tezzeret is out:
http://www.twitch.tv/cardtitan
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