Yeah, I think Zoo or something similar could be fine if they had access to a solid 60 card main. Then, just play a 15 card anti-combo sideboard and you'll probably do okay. I mean, it works for Lands right? Lands has almost zero positive combo matchups and only a few unfavorable fair matchups game one, but they just throw 15 anti-combo cards in their sideboard and just get there.
Lands (18)
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Wooded Foothills
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Arid Mesa
4 Volcanic Island
2 Mountain
2 Barbarian Ring
Creatures (14)
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
Spells (28)
4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Rift Bolt
4 Forked Bolt
2 Price of Progress
2 Fireblast
Sideboard (15)
4 Smash to Smithereens
4 Force of Will
2 Spell Pierce
2 Seal of Removal
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Pithing Needle
Good luck ever casting those sb FoW with 12 maindeck blue cards and some random bs blue cards, nice deck. Do you pitch your Spell Pierce or Daze to it, or the Delver you wanted to play t1? UR Delver is straight up unplayable.
One tournament added, OP rankings updated:
July 14, MTA Legacy Championship @ Guangzhou, China, 129 players: 1.) Tezzeret Control 2.) RUG Delver 3.) B/R Reanimator 4.) Sneak & Show 5.) UWR Stoneblade 6.) Sneak & Show 7.) Sneak & Show 8.) RUG Delver
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July 22, MKM Series Prague, 227 players: 1.) Elves 2.) Eldrazi 3.) Miracles 4.) Miracles 5.) OmniTell w/ Sneak 6.) Eldrazi 7.) Miracles 8.) BUG Control
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July 22, Philadelphia SCG Classic, 170 players: 1.) BUG Depths 2.) U/W Helm 3.) Miracles 4.) Big Eldrazi 5.) Infect 6.) Elves 7.) Grixis Delver 8.) Big Eldrazi 9.) U/G 12-Post 10.) Death & Taxes 11.) Aggro Loam 12.) Grixis Delver 13.) U/W Standstill 14.) TES 15.) Big Eldrazi 16.) Sneak & Show
Last edited by Scott; 07-23-2018 at 07:00 PM.
The postboard configuration with FoW is 18-20 blue spells, depending on the combo matchup, which is plenty.
I pitch whatever I feel is the weakest other blue card in my hand at the time. If I have a creature heavy draw, I'm cool with pitching Delver. If mana looks to be tight to where I'm not sure when I'll be able to hold open U for Spell Pierce, then I'll pitch that. It just depends on the situation. This isn't any different from how UR Delver would do it; I just don't have Ponder.
I disagree with your assessment that the deck is straight up unplayable, but to each his own. I took the deck to an 11-4 finish at GP Louisville and I do well at locals with it. I haven't gotten to play in too many larger events with it, but I've done pretty well with it when I have.
I'm not really trying to convince you otherwise, but someone made a post that fit pretty neatly with what I consider my primary deck of choice for competitive events, so I posted my list in response.
Okay but why Seal of Removal? Isn't Vapor Snag better in that deck?
whienot summed it up pretty well, but I'll elaborate just a tad more. Vapor Snag hits Turbo Depths and Reanimator, but isn't very good against Sneak and Show (can't target Emrakul). Seal of Removal deals with all three matchups. It's simply the more versatile option.
It can also be nice to be able to proactively put it into play against decks with discard (Depths/Reanimator), but that's only an ancillary reason to run it.
Also, sorry to derail the thread. Carry on.
One tournament added, OP rankings updated:
July 22, MTGO Challenge, 83 players: 1.) Big Eldrazi 2.) Death & Taxes 3.) U/W Stoneblade 4.) Sneak & Show 5.) Eldrazi 6.) Death & Taxes 7.) RUG Delver 8.) Death & Taxes 9.) B/R Reanimator 10.) Zombardment 11.) Lands 12.) Punishing Dack 13.) Merfolk 14.) TES 15.) Sneak & Show 16.) U/R Delver
(#17-32 aren't tabulated here, but are in the link)
Also: After getting some feedback, I've removed the #9-16 placings of July 14, LCL July 2018, 46 players from the numbers, as it was a smaller tournament and including the full top 16 would include middle-of-the-pack decks from the tournament (records like 3-3), and skew an accurate meta representation. You can still find the deck lists at the link.
Last edited by Scott; 07-24-2018 at 01:30 PM.
One tournament added, OP rankings updated:
July 22, CLC 2018 - Etapa 6 - Itajaí @ Blackout Games, 38 players: 1.) RUG Delver 2.) Reanimator 3.) Grixis Control 4.) U/R OmniTell 5.) Death & Taxes 6.) Eldrazi 7.) Grixis Control 8.) Dragon Stompy
One tournament added, OP rankings updated:
July 22, Legacy at Grand Prix Chiba, 231 players: 1.) Grixis Control 2.) Miracles 3.) Lands 4.) Miracles 5.) OmniTell 6.) Grixis Delver 7.) Grixis Control 8.) Miracles
Two tournaments added, OP rankings updated:
July 15, 関帝前哨戦レガシー - 晴れる屋大阪店, 44 players: 1.) Miracles 2.) UWR Delver 3.) Sneak & Show 4.) Grixis Delver 5.) Death & Taxes 6.) Pox 7.) U/R Delver 8.) U/W Stoneblade
July 7, 晴れる屋レガシー杯, 35 players: 1.) ANT 2.) Eldrazi 3.) Food Chain 4.) U/R Delver 5.) Grixis Delver 6.) Esperblade 7.) Miracles 8.) Infect
All Spells Primer under construction: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e...Tl7utWpLo0/pub
PM me if you want to contribute!
One tournament added, OP rankings updated:
July 21, Preservation Series 1K @ Mox Boarding House Bellevue, 48 players: 1.) OmniTell w/ Sneak 2.) Grixis Control 3.) Aggro Loam 4.) Maverick 5.) Death & Taxes 6.) Goblins 7.) OmniTell w/ Sneak 8.) ANT
One tournament added, OP rankings updated:
July 28, 第二期関西帝王レガシー - 晴れる屋大阪店, 88 players: 1.) ANT 2.) Dragon Stompy 3.) Death & Taxes 4.) Miracles 5.) Colorless 12-Post 6.) U/R Delver 7.) Bomberman 8.) Pox
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