Taxing delver

[mifme]

Just threw this brew together and its not bad so i thought i'd share on here and get peoples opinion. There is no sideboard at the moment as i was just working oon the main deck.

The idea is drop a quick delver and then bury people with card advantage from the tax/rack engine.

Thoughts are welcome.

4 delver of secrets
4 snapcaster mage
2 vedilion clique
4 land tax
3 scroll rack
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 daze
2 spell pierce
2 armogeddon
4 swords to plowshares
4 mox diamond

2 flooded strand
4 wasteland
4 tundra
1 karakas
3 plains
5 island

[k2thej]

Just threw this brew together and its not bad so i thought i'd share on here and get peoples opinion. There is no sideboard at the moment as i was just working oon the main deck.

The idea is drop a quick delver and then bury people with card advantage from the tax/rack engine.

Thoughts are welcome.

4 delver of secrets
4 snapcaster mage
2 vedilion clique
4 land tax
3 scroll rack
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 daze
2 spell pierce
2 armogeddon
4 swords to plowshares
4 mox diamond

2 flooded strand
4 wasteland
4 tundra
1 karakas
3 plains
5 island

Interesting idea. You're gonna need more than 19 lands to run 4 mox diamonds. At least 22-3.

[Birkardo]

Omg, one card unbanned (a pretty weak card btw), and all of you are freaking out....

[I am the brainwasher]

Next week:
Taxing 1 Land Belcher

[rxavage]

Interesting idea. You're gonna need more than 19 lands to run 4 mox diamonds. At least 22-3.

Not if the whole point is to be getting Tax activations.

[bruizar]

Not if the whole point is to be getting Tax activations.

Death & TAXES

[Sarterus]

I would add thought scour to fuel the snap casters and help brainstorms/landtax card advantage.

2 Caverns are also good, all your creatures are wizards and if you need colored mana you can pitch it to the tax.

19 land is good with 4 taxes.

Armageddon may not be needed or sideboard only. Many legacy decks have such low curves or non land mana sources that they are not affected by Armageddon.

[Mr. Safety]

Could this deck be using Squadron Hawk and Mystic/equips? It seems that Squadron Hawk is already pretty good with Brainstorm, it also seems really good with Scroll Rack. It provides plenty of shuffle options while being a solid equip target. If you get Brainstorm + Squadron Hawk, you're getting some good library manipulation. If you get SH and Scroll Rack, you're getting almost the same thing.

Just a thought. I was thinking that Squadron Hawk would be a fairly clever idea to test with Land Tax/Scroll Rack. In this setup it would simply be a way to get 3 lands, Scroll Rack them on top with the last card placed as a Squadron Hawk. Dig out more hawks and shuffle up. If you get another Land Tax activation, do it again.

4x Squadron Hawk
4x Stoneforge Mystic
2x Vendilion Clique
1x Batterskull
1x Umezawa's Jitte
1x Sword of Feast and Famine
1x Sword of Fire and Ice

4x Brainstorm
3x Scroll Rack
4x Land Tax
4x Swords to Plowshares
4x Force of Will
2x Spell Snare
3x Daze
2x Ponder

4x Flooded Strand
4x Wasteland
4x Tundra
3x Island
5x Plains


I also wonder what Weathered Wayfarer could potentially do with Land Tax. Death and Taxes has used him in the past to dig out Wastelands (and provide value similar to Land Tax)