MTG Salvation

I used to run all 3; I do find that just Iona and Elesh are sufficient now.

Yeah ~ lynx is so essential against the non-interactive decks, which is half the format

On that deck, it hardly looks like a wur deck. Leaving the delvers aside, it doesnt run a full set of either helix or remand, and snapcaster here is way too good not to play 4.

He is using Dark Confidant and Grim Lavamancer instead. They perform a very similar function.

Quote from rickster_

He's still tweaking it. I think he' 3-1'd with it but wizards is behind on updating the dailies.

3:49:00 is when he starts building his deck
http://www.twitch.tv/darkest_mage/b/335218602

Thanks for all the detail. Much appreciated!

Link?

It's not that delver is bad; it's that it just doesn't flip enough for me, even with ~21 hits. If you include more I'm not threat dense enough. I feel it needs ponder / brainstorm. It's bad in standard now for the same reason (IMO).

Quote from frozen_braskamin

You forgot the 4 Delvers. Thought Scour is quite poor to be honest.

Delver would be easily the worst card in the deck.

Any thoughts on this:



SB is a WIP though I plan to include the gifts package.

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If you get cards stuck in hand and have to Gifts for Looting, do the full Gifts and get 4 cards. Worst case you get Looting to hand, save 2 mana and draw 2 extra cards or get Looting in grave, get something else you wanted and get extra cards. There is no loss, only wins.

This is true. I wasnt really thinking when I was typing sorry.

My gifts package is;
3 x gifts
1 x elesh norn
1 x Iona
1 x lingering souls
1 x unburial rites
1 x faithless looting

So half my board the looting can help when one of the reanimator targets gets stuck in your hand - you gifts for looting + unburial rites instead.

The package is really powerful because it is very often a free win in game 2. Eg: Iona on black vs Jund; Elesh Norn vs Affinity etc.

Have you tried the gifts sideboard package?