MTG Salvation

Speaking from a UW Control perspective Spell Snare has been awful. 2 Spell Pierces have been exceedingly more useful thhan any number of Snares.

Specifically, for this archetype, you want to press tempo, so Spell Pierce will give you that, spell snare often will be useless.

Force will almost do nothing for the matchup, unless they're playing the Karn Version. If they're hard pressed to combo off they'll tutor a pact of negation. Typically you want to attack their manabase or tempo/aggro them out. Blood Moon/Molten Rain and now Pillage are great against them. Also, Ashiok. Play motherf*cking Ashiok, screws with almost everything they do.

My perspective is more from the UW Control side, where I can grind them, but from the games I played, Ashiok was busted and so was land destruction.

I think you're trying Feather in the wrong deck, thus reducing the focus the deck. I'll build a Boros deck with growths/dreadhorde champion/swiftspear to compliment feather's gameplan.

Saheeli doesn't re-trigger Snapcaster, unless you meant that Snap creates another servo with its ability.

All these new weird cards have me wanting to break Jeskai Ascendancy even more...

Reliable triggers with Feather returning pseudocantrips? Check!
Massive damage boosts from the new Saheeli? Check!

As always great list. 2 things:

1. Have you played against the new Rakdos Burn, and if so, how's the matchup?

2. Is Slayers' Stronghold really that good? It seems iffy with those color requirements.

I saw a list somewhere (I think it 5-0'd a few weeks back) with 4 Young Pyromancers, 4 Monastery Mentors and 4 Arclight Phoenixs. You could shift some numbers and work with 4 Delvers and a couple of Dovins.

Dovin's awesome if you can go wide or can protect him. I'd start with a shell with Young Pyromancer.

On a scale of 1 to 10 for cantrips, with 1 being the worst that's ever existed and 10 being Ancestral Recall,
Ponder is an 8-8.5 and Brainstorm is 9-9.5.

Don't ever expect to see Ponder again in modern. The best you're gonna get is Preordain and that's debatable with phoenix decks being as good as they are. A critical mass of (good) cantrips can be a dangerous thing.

Tokens, weird permanents (bridge/chalice/blood moon etc) and tempo plays, it's a good all around card.

Why not a boros charm in place of the 4th helix?

(sidenote: god I hate those altered delvers )

You should try Swiftspears and mutagenic growths/gut shots,but then you're almost to the point of playing UR Phoenix with looting/scours etc. without the phoenixes and thing in the ice (arguably the reason to play the deck).

Cut the Field of Ruins, they're too slow for the deck and it's messing up your manabase color balance.

And if anything, the Boros Charms should be in the main.

In my Delver decks I'm playing 18-19 lands with 4 Fastlands (2 Spirebluff, 1 Seachrome, 1 Vantage), 4 Shocklands (2 Steam Vents, 1 Hallowed, 1 Sacred) 3 Basics (2 Islands, 1 Plains, or 1 of each (depending on the amount of field of ruins I'm expecting) and 6-7 fetch lands. I'm personally playing Blood Moons in the sideboard, but this configuration has served me well.

Also no Izzet Staticaster against Fairies? It wrecks most of their creatures.

So long as it's in print it won't be over 10-15$. Look at Trophy, which is played much more. Also, this one is far more brutal in Legacy and Vintage, I'll definitely try it, but I was thinking more along the lines a UW Midrange shell than a delver shell.

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([...] Can anyone come up with a cool name for the deck? Dark Jeskai Delver?)

Dark Delver?

Also, I'd try it if I didn't have to fork over for the foil Kommands

I've been playing a phoenix/kiln fiend/swiftspear amalgam for the past few weeks that's been going pretty well, so sorry for not coming up with many helpful write ups