We got a good one today. This one might be a game changer. What do you all think?
I don't normally like vanilla creatures, but this one is definitely worth testing.
It absolutely warrants testing. This one has big potential and not a lot of downside. The body can only be answered by direct kill spells like Path, the wall is also out of bolt range, the flip trigger is insane...I don't see how UR anything isn't going to at least try this out. I love it.
Totally agree. This may be what we needed to get back into competitive range once the eldrazi deck is cut down to size. I will update as soon as I get some testing done this evening.
In this deck, this is basically blue Tarmogoyf. It seems completely insane.
I looked through the thread and didn't see anything but has anyone ever tried leonine arbiter + ghost quarter + path in these jeski builds? Maybe with Geist and young pyromancer ? the only downside i can think of is that the mana would be hard (no/few fetches.) but playing spell pierce and mana leak along with vapor snag creates huge advantages when your opponent can't fetch /search or answer your delver because they have to get rid of the arbiter . Thoughts?
You said it yourself. This is a three colour deck, and without fetchlands, the mana gets much worse.
I think Snapcaster Mage is pretty much a must in the more controlling builds. If you absolutely can't buy them, then perhaps you should stick with the UR Prowess build.
Just a note - Snapcaster Mage will only go up, not down from here. If another URx deck breaks (such as through a new brew or an unban), his price will skyrocket back to $80 each.
I think Snapcaster Mage is pretty much a must in the more controlling builds. If you absolutely can't buy them, then perhaps you should stick with the UR Prowess build.
Just a note - Snapcaster Mage will only go up, not down from here. If another URx deck breaks (such as through a new brew or an unban), his price will skyrocket back to $80 each.
Snapcaster Mage may yet go down if it is reprinted is SOI. But if it isn't it may start hitting Tarmogoyf-esque prices.
As CurdBros said, Stormchaser Mage makes a great addition to the deck, especially for the people who don't want to play Young Pyromancer. Now I have to figure out whether I want to cut my Pyros or not...
Umm... This is basically just a worse hate bears deck, and has a less consistent mana base than a normal delver deck, just to run leonin arbiter. I haven't ever seen squelch before, mind you.
Also, I'm sorry to say this, but celestial colonnade is certainly more powerful, and only costs one mana ore to activate. Still,CWandering Fumarole is certainly interesting. I think this deck can't handle tapping down five lands though.
Griselbrand's GP promo shows that, if SFM is unbanned, it probably at max increase by $10 in value, as the GP promos will satisfy most of the new demand. Also, if SFM is unbanned in 2016, the GP organisers will have to increase the prices of their events.
That looks pretty good (still personally not a fan of Young Pyromancer, but it seems to be working well). I might replace Dispel with Spell Pierce though. Also, I see that you gave up on Boros Charm.
Hi Valanarch. It's been awhile. This isn't my list, just a list I found. I agree with you about Young Pyromancer. I'm not a huge fan of that card in modern as well. I too run Spell Pierce in my main board over dispel. I'm still running my trusty one of Boros Charm in my Jeskai Delver/Prowess list, but I have had thoughts of cutting it lately. I haven't been seeing many sweepers lately so it basically is a four damage spell. I am also still running two Emerge Unscatheds that you mentioned a couple of years back.
This deck looks like an interesting deck. It has the aggressive delver, geist, pyromancer package with probe, visions, thought scour and then it has the more midrange monastery mentor, electrolyze, mana leak. There are very few late game cards with mentor being the biggest card that sticks out. I actually prefer my tempo/aggressive decks to have a few late game cards so I like this build even though I haven't had great luck with mentor in a delver build yet.
I personally never ran the lategame cards, but I haven't had much luck with Monastery Mentor either. Hopefully we'll see an SFM unban so this is playable again (Though I'll totally have to sell most of my cards to afford the SFM's after the inevitable price spike. I'm just not willing to risk buying a card that I think has almost no shot of being unbanned.)
SFM certainly will spike if Wizards does unban it, but they've announced it as the 2016 GP promo, so it shouldn't cost you much more than $100 for the play set. (I hope!)
In this deck, this is basically blue Tarmogoyf. It seems completely insane.
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You said it yourself. This is a three colour deck, and without fetchlands, the mana gets much worse.
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Snapcaster Mage may yet go down if it is reprinted is SOI. But if it isn't it may start hitting Tarmogoyf-esque prices.
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SFM certainly will spike if Wizards does unban it, but they've announced it as the 2016 GP promo, so it shouldn't cost you much more than $100 for the play set. (I hope!)
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4 Serum Visions
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