This is about a recently spoiled card from Eldrich Moon.
In the spoiler thread, the suggestion was that it might fit into a delver style tempo list.Bedlam Reveler
6RR
Creature - Devil Horror
Bedlam Reveler Costs 1 less for each instant or sorcery card in your graveyard
Prowess
When Bedlam Reveler enters the battlefield discard your hand and draw 3 cards.
3/4
I tend to think it's better suited to an approach like Brad Nelson's Jeskai Ascendancy deck
http://www.starcitygames.com/events/...ndancy_co.html
For reference this would be the list with -4 Treasure Cruise +4 Reveler:
Creatures (12)
4 Fatestitcher
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Bedlam Reveler
Lands (18)
3 Arid Mesa
1 Faerie Conclave
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
Spells (30)
4 Jeskai Ascendancy
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Mental Note
3 Spell Pierce
4 Thought Scour
1 Faithless Looting
4 Gitaxian Probe
Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
3 Meddling Mage
1 Sulfur Elemental
2 Hydroblast
1 Pyroblast
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Wear
1 Faerie Conclave
Jeskai Ascendancy is fun as hell.
Unfortunately, it sucks in Legacy. My first attempt was going to be with TITI in a more control build than UR Tempo. But I don't think going hellbent works well with control. So I'm thinking Delver.
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Bedlam Reveler
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Force of Will
2 Spell Pierce
3 Price of Progress
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Faithless Looting
17 lands
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Someone within R&D has a serious Ancestrall Recall addiction and needs to be taken into treatment asap.
I think everyone is overthinking the 6 instance/sorcery requirement and discard drawback.
Remember how everyone thought treasure cruise and dig would be hard to cast, and would require garbage like though scour and looting to work in a deck?
In UR delver, how many of the cards in the GY were not instances/scorceries? MAYBE 30% of them.
Imagine if TC cost 10U instead of 7U. It would not make a big difference. It would have still been a 4 of in UR delver, and probably still gotten banned.
This guy basically just requires 30% more cards in the GY to work, than TC with the added bonus of "put a tarmogoyf into play" for RR.
The "discard your hand" clause is irrelevant. If you have a hand with cards you want to keep you are already winning. If you are in top deck mode and you cast this guy, you are also winning. Where he is bad is in turn 1-3 where you can't really cast him.
I think this will definitely have a home in R based delver decks.
In a Delver deck, you are easily capable of emptying your hand rapidly and perhaps entirely by the time you've achieved the following criteria necessary to summon the Reveler:
1) you've drawn a copy of the Reveler and have it in hand, ready for eventual casting,
2) you have the requisite available in addition to perhaps some amount of generic mana to make up for less than the required number of Sorceries/Instants, and
3) you filled your graveyard with enough spells to bring the generic cost of the Reveler down to or close to zero.
At this point (which is entirely possible as early as turn 3 or 4 in a typical Legacy game), the drawback of having to first discard your hand is either partially or completely mitigated by the nature of how quickly a Delver deck can cast its spells, especially if the deck was designed with this card in mind.
But here's the thing that makes this guy so over-the-top broken: it's not like you *have* to cast him at the first possible opportunity; you can simply sandbag a copy of the Devil while playing a typical Delver disruptive aggro/control role, casting your spells at an optimal pace and maximizing their effect, holding onto the Devil for casting at the perfect moment once you've completely exhausted your resources and actually need to refuel. That seems to be the correct approach towards playing this guy in RUG Delver; whereas perhaps in a straight UR list the best approach would just entail frantically flinging low-cost and 'free' spells like Gitaxian Probe and perhaps even semi-garbage such as Gutshot to quickly fill the graveyard, chaining these spells as fast as possible with only the intended goal of netting Prowess triggers in addition to casting back-to-back Draw 3s like you did during the Treasure Cruise era, all the while slinging all burn spells directly at the opponent's dome. Such an approach is rather crude in comparison to RUG's more strategically optimized deployment, but it's also competitive and viable -- or at least it was with Treasure Cruise.
The beauty of RUG Delver playing Reveler is that it could also do that sort of over-the-top aggressive approach if the matchup and gamestate warranted it; yet RUG is also capable of playing a very methodical control game that restricts its opponent's lines of play while putting them on a fast clock. Compared to its use as a draw 3 chain for the all-in type of games, in the more methodical control games Bedlam Reveler would serve a somewhat different function by being held back until the most optimal and guaranteed moment, rather than pushing all your chips in and hoping for the best in the aggro plan of attack.
the problem with Bedlam is that you can't drop it turn 2, and you can't sculpt a hand prior to playing it. With all of those cantrips you're casting against combo to find your spell pierces you sure as hell don't want to discard them to reveler for 3 random-ass cards.
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I've been goldfishing Reveler in place of Stormchaser in this build. It's bonkers!
I wonder if you could make a more controlling shell with 4 Bedlam Reveler along with 4 TITI (they play nice together since Reveler is a Horror) plus Snapcaster Mage since it works well with instants and sorceries in the graveyard and can get some value if you flip TITI and have to return it to your hand. Not sure if it would need another color or if it could be straight Blue/Red and do kinda a counter burn thing but it would be fun to test in any event.
Considering the EtB effect on Reveler, I think I would prefer it were not a horror. But I think a lot of folks feel as you do, and are tinkering with this idea. My titty deck is intentionally not red, but I do like these guys in the same deck. One significant caveat though, is that all of those creatures do not do their job without some planning. It makes the deck very bad at johnny-on-the-spot offense. Yes, control, but Legacy control decks that don't start with "m" and end with "iracles" have to present a clock when facing that rather popular deck. I don't like a deck design that starts with a bad matchup against the number one deck.
So, while reveler looks like it is at least turn four before you can cast it - and probably better on turn five so that you can use your hand first, I am going to stick with something between aggro and midrange for my first attempt.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often and for the same reason."
"Governing is too important to be left to people as silly as politicians."
"Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers."
On a different tack, I wonder what the crazy all-in reveler burn list would look like. ... This is probably terrible:
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Manamorphose
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Rift Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Bump in the Night
4 Fireblast
4 Dangerous Wager
4 Bedlam Reveler
4 Land Grant
4 Rite of Flame
3 Taiga
1 Bayou
2 Badlands
4 Wooded Foothills
2 Mountain
I think rufus has balls the size of cantaloupes to post a deck list with no blue mana. Land grant and Gitaxian Probe in the same deck makes for a strange game. I agree that it looks terrible. But hot damn it has style!
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often and for the same reason."
"Governing is too important to be left to people as silly as politicians."
"Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers."
Honestly I think Dangerous Wager and Rite of Flame are the cards I'd look to cut first. They just don't do enough, or cost too much and replicate an effect that is better on the Reveler.
This would be a hilarious deck to play though.
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That's fair. Dangerous Wager is something I added at the end when filling out the last cards - there are definitely better choices.
I don't understand the strong reactions. It's mostly just "Burn: Apply directly to the forehead."This would be a hilarious deck to play though.
Bedlam Reveler is the other rare in the Niblis of Frost Intro Pack. If you had this pegged for speculation purposes, sorry bro.
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