Quote Originally Posted by Gul_Dukat View Post
Hey all, I have been on a tear with grixis delver on modo (four 5-0s in a row). And want to build irl, only problem is my LGS is infested with pox (there is a group of friends who all play pox, and another pox player on top of that), any ideas of hate cards we can play? I was thinking enchantments and artifacts are a good way to exploit them, a bitterblossom, or a life from the loam, or even a compost/sulfuric vortex? alongside replacing my flusters with pierces or something like that, any ideas on how to approach this mu? any help would be mucho appreciated. My lgs is also infested with lands, toronto being the city with perhaps the highest tabernacle per capita. (Maybe grixis delver is a deathwish at this store). There is also lots of 4c leo.
Pox is about aggressive 1 for 1 trades usually, and you need things like Young Pyromancer to blank a lot of their stuff, at the same time you need to protect it from Fatal Push. Spell Snare is a very good card against Pox, Spell Pierce can lose value in a long game (which is probably gonna happen). BUG Delver probably has better options since Sylvan Library and Liliana the Last Hope are easier to support and get much more worse when your manabase has Volcanic Islands. That being said, I think Liliana the Last Hope is devastating and maybe you are better off playing BUG Delver instead, although I think Young Pyromancer is also one of the cards that gives you an edge because they really need Push or CollBrut.