Quote Originally Posted by Secretly.A.Bee View Post
4-color will likely fall off the map competitively, as will Grixis as they will lose their edge. I thing BUG and RUG will maintain their places as the standard for delver, each being the best at what they do.

There is not much to be done about the merfolk matchup. It's just bad. You can get lucky if you play Toxic Deluge, EE, and Meekstone in the side, but mostly just stop lords and race TNNs.

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Amusingly enough, the classic Hymn/Liliana builds of BUG Delver have a pretty reasonable Merfolk matchup since they can operate quite well off of Bayou, Bayou, DRS. Also, Liliana and Hymn are great against Vial decks.

As for if Dig gets banned, I think that BUG will go back to being the best Delver deck...overall? Pre-Khans, it was the best Delver deck in Delver mirrors, the best Delver deck against combo, and no worse than RUG against Miracles. I guess it was slightly weaker against Jund, so we'll see how the BGx portion of the meta arranges itself should Dig get the axe.

Quote Originally Posted by Jo4source View Post
hello every one i was wondering for a solution to fight off merfolk. i get wrecked every time, my board is empty because i wanted to play better b4 actually paying a entry fee. my meta is small 3-4 miracles 1 storm 1 mud 1 merfolk 1 burn 1 death and taxes 1 one omni-tell 3-5 delver variants
I think you want more Digs. Honestly, I'd probably start from one of the PIQ lists from this weekend if you're new to the deck. At the very least, you should make a sideboard as an exercise. It's not walled off from your starting 60 - in fact, your maindeck should reflect what you expect to have in your sideboard. It's not just a matter of making in/out tables (I don't find that helpful, fwiw); it's about knowing that you can bias your main toward an expected meta without giving up generality from the board or vice-versa.