To answer your question about wanting more than 4 Snapcasters, have you ever played Jace Vyrn's Prodigy and Snapcaster in the same deck? It's generally not very good to have too many flashback effects in your deck because you end up eating your entire graveyard and it makes you super soft to Rest in Peace. Normally I wouldn't bring in RIP against a deck like this, but if I see Snaps and this dude? RIP is 100% coming in. If you really want more than 4 Snapcasters, just throw in a JVP or 2.
If Popeye Stompy could give Legacy a shakeup, maybe Grixis Delvaargh is the next new thing in Modern? In all seriousness though, I love the idea of playing 8-Snap (with Dire Fleet Daredevil) and have begun working on a list. It's a very rough first draft, but I'll throw it out there none the less.
You realize that Pirate Stompy is a fake deck? It was completely made up by Bob Huang from Channel Fireball and everyone bought it hook-line-and-sinker.
Merchant Ship even spiked to like a $20 card. This is the problem with our society, no one thoroughly reads anything. They read the headline and then hit repost. Here's the original link. READ THE WHOLE THING. It's hilarious and a lot of opportunists made some serious money on it. https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/popeye-stompy/
Hasn't Merchant Ship spiked due to the reserved list and buyouts of useless but not printable cards? I don't recall it being used on pirate stompy. I guess people really don't read anything, the pirate stompy was the dumbest thing I've seen in quite a while.
About the daredevil... sounds good in a meta with a specific kind of deck. But quite worse than snapcaster, not having flash is HUGE. I think it was a joke, but even though daredevil is strictly worse than snapcaster, snap is so good that "additional copies" could be good.
But it sounds too lose.
But could be good.
I mean, not reeeeally good, but good...ish?
Maybe it's just not that bad.
But not quite good-ish.
I guess that joke kinda got me thinking.
I'd say it's good against 50% of the meta, kinda good against 25% of the meta and a bad black knight against 25% of the meta. But in any case I think it's too mana expensive as a sorcery-speed spell for grixis delver.
Yeah the price went up on Merchant Ship because of buyouts, but the reason people bought it out was because of speculation of this stupid Stompy Deck that wasn't real. The same thing is happening right now with Lotus Vale's and Blood Sun. People are speculating and they bought out Lotus Vales and now the prices spiked.
I know that Popeye Stompy wasn't a serious deck, and it actually wasn't Bob Huang who was the mastermind behind it - he wrote the article but Julian Knab was the creator. My deck wasn't to be taken too serious either, but often the best way to test new cards is to play more copies than what you'd do in a deck to see if the card has any legs. After some testing I can say that Daredevil isn't bad, but that most decks (especially with access to blue) shouldn't be playing more than 1-2 copies.
Did you read the article bro? It was literally never a deck. There wasn't a mastermind behind it. It was completely fabricated. And all the mouthbreathers who want to use MTG as an investment fund went crazy and drove prices up on a bunch of cards for a fake deck.
If Popeye Stompy could give Legacy a shakeup, maybe Grixis Delvaargh is the next new thing in Modern? In all seriousness though, I love the idea of playing 8-Snap (with Dire Fleet Daredevil) and have begun working on a list. It's a very rough first draft, but I'll throw it out there none the less.
You realize that Pirate Stompy is a fake deck? It was completely made up by Bob Huang from Channel Fireball and everyone bought it hook-line-and-sinker.
Merchant Ship even spiked to like a $20 card. This is the problem with our society, no one thoroughly reads anything. They read the headline and then hit repost. Here's the original link. READ THE WHOLE THING. It's hilarious and a lot of opportunists made some serious money on it. https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/popeye-stompy/
I like it. Ever think about Vapor Snags in place of the Terminates? Pretty devastating against Anglers and Tasigurs.
Vapor Snag is for the very tempo-oriented lists or if u're playing U/G with no access to real removal. It's actually best vs wurmcoil but ceremonius rejection is even better.
Just a thought. A lot of times the marginal life loss can win you the game. That's why a lot of Grixis lists are mainboarding Countersqualls too.
That's why I'm playing cryptic delver. Playing a list similar to this one "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ71rzNrGzg". I've trimmed a land to 21 added 1 Opt and playing 3 cryptics instead of 4. Deck has game against anything and it transforms into grixis control easily if needed just side out the delvers.
When you run shadow you need to warp your deck while delver doesn't warp it as much (well we're playing a lot of spells anyway). So you can sideboard into pure grixis control something that you can't running death's shadow cause you're all in on it.
Can you post your list? I would be interested in seeing it.
so I've been thinking of possibly going this route with Modern. I play BUG Delver in Legacy and I love it. But what I imagined for Grixis Delver is not even close to what everyone is running modern. Without free ways to protect Delver (i.e. Force of Will and Daze) it's almost impossible for you to drop him on 1. You are just walking into a kill spell. I feel the way to mitigate this is to run discard spells, that way you can go turn 1 Thoughtseize or Inquisition, take the removal spell, play Delver on 2 and hope to have spell pierce or Spell snare in case they draw another removal spell or have multiples. The thing is, I notice almost no one is running hand disruption. Another idea I had was possibly not running the big delve dudes and running Bobs to keep your hand full of interaction. I've never played Delver in Modern, but in all honesty it just seems like a worse Death's Shadow. Someone please convince me lol. I want to like Delver.
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Yeah the price went up on Merchant Ship because of buyouts, but the reason people bought it out was because of speculation of this stupid Stompy Deck that wasn't real. The same thing is happening right now with Lotus Vale's and Blood Sun. People are speculating and they bought out Lotus Vales and now the prices spiked.
You realize that Pirate Stompy is a fake deck? It was completely made up by Bob Huang from Channel Fireball and everyone bought it hook-line-and-sinker.
Merchant Ship even spiked to like a $20 card. This is the problem with our society, no one thoroughly reads anything. They read the headline and then hit repost. Here's the original link. READ THE WHOLE THING. It's hilarious and a lot of opportunists made some serious money on it. https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/popeye-stompy/
Can you post your list? I would be interested in seeing it.