Regular delver you are a small favorite, but disrupting shoal is difficult to play around or overwhelm. Ive believed for a while now that modern has three viable grow decks, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Part of the problem with ur delver is that if your turn 1 delver or turn 2 young pyromancer gets killed, your hand gets significantly worse. The list is changing very often so i will not write and explain here the cards i use because they are always change. Broodmistress, shield sphere, shoal serpent, shoving match, showstopper. When properly supported, honored hierarch is amazing, and the greatest thing about it is the price. As such, it didnt discuss chart a course, a spell spoiled during the magic. January 11, 2019 by jordan boisvert 4 editors note. I know legacy delver is a thing, and i know while most of the cards are different, the deck has the same premise.
For its shuffle effect so your opponent cant mill you out by reanimating your own balustrade spy before youre ready. Todays deck is a firstplace list piloted by jordan boisvert at the starcitygames premier iq in worcester. Did you nail it perfect or are you resistant to change. To make grixis delver a grow deck, we first need to lower its curve. Arena unveiling that has me giddier than anything else in the set chart a course has shown promise in my goto delver deck, countercat. Tomb of the spirit dragon, torch song, tormented thoughts, torrent of fire. This articles title refers to the card as salamander drake. This is a mono blue modern deck based on delver of secrets. But goyf backed up by disrupting shoal pitching delver to counter a.
If you are running a lower budget build and want to get away without force of will, you can use this card instead, or alongside it if you really need countermagic. Woo brews ascendancy and modern brews channelfireball. The gathering cards and get the best deals at the lowest prices on ebay. Weve shaved most of the nonblue spells from the deck and can now access this 0mana disruption spell. Sultai delver deck creation modern modern the game. Once it exhausts its cards, the deck refills with days undoing to overpower opponents. I can confirm cryptic command is very good in this kind of deck. Delver of secrets insectile aberration demanding dragon. Updated oct 16, 2019 by bytedm using our mtg deck builder. Here is a sample list 17 island 4 delver of secrets 4 pteramander 3 cryptic serpent 4 thought scour 4 opt 4 serum visions 3 spell pierce 3 spell snare 3 remand 2 mana leak 1 disrupting shoal 3. Jordans deck is one of the most interesting takes on delver. The deck stays mono blue to maximize the effect of disrupting shoal.
I took out some split of vapor snag and disrupting shoal that i cant quite. Ive been playing a lot of bug delver with disrupting shoal and it is absolutely worth it to tap out for a goyf say t2 having serum visions or a snappy to pitch to counter path to exile, remand, goryos vengeance, eidolon etc, etc. How can you imagine a monou delver deck without cryptic command xd more seriously, your disrupting shoal with this deck is worthless, since you have no 3 and 4 ccm to use with it, thats also why you want to play cryptic command ninja of the deep hour as 4ccm, and eventually vendilion clique and the new supreme will as 3 ccm even psionic. Disrupting shoal lets you tap out for a pyromancer or the like without worrying about it just dying with no value. Woo brews ninja bear around the web channelfireball. To celebrate my return from holiday, we have a spicy one for everyone. Download delver game free for pc updated version delver download updated preinstalled game pc. Temur delver has seen its fair share of modern play, but we rarely see it in the top 8 of premier events, let alone win.
Looking at modern, we see that grixis delver took down the iq. It was a bit difficult to believe at first, but it started showing results. Monoblue delver finally has all the tools it needs to be a competitive deck in modern now, and its the single best budget deck in the format imo. Delver is a single player firstperson action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make. Disrupting shoal was an inefficient way to hedge against both the fast aggro decks and the combo decks being able to drop a goyf and then shoal the helixpatheidolon if needed could buy that one turn needed to untap and get all our other interaction online. Mono blue delver is the most powerful budget deck in. Despoiler of souls, disappear, disrupt decorum, durkwood baloth, duskrider.
Broadcasting is a way to meet up and play with people in your area. Disrupting shoal can break up an opponents combo in the first couple turns of the game or be used to force through our own combo. Disrupting shoal is a much stranger choice that is a pet card to many. No longer fearing blood moon, i crack my fetches for shocks and play. See cards from the most recent sets and discover what players just like you are saying about them. Spellsmatter decks perform admirably these days, but my favorite human. Single card discussion disrupting shoal modern the. Modern sleepers part 1 july 10, 2015 by jordan boisvert 19. I think that ninja of the deep hours could be decent here because you gain cards and protect it with disrupting shoal. Delver of secrets insectile aberration dematerialize. The decks mana curve is designed to maximize shoal.
Grixis control with a lot of discard and countermagic can be close as well, but if they only attack from one angle, then beating them is similar to beating regular delver or jund. The people have been clamoring for more infect content, and here at tier fun we are all about the people so we delivered. Ninja of the deep hoursc combined with csnapcaster magec, ccryptic commandc and c disrupting shoal c to do very cool things in the right hands. However, its not something you really want multiples of, and is. It got played by ninja bear delver and basically no other decks. Updated feb 11, 2019 by mysticsnake using our mtg deck builder. If you ever played the old ninja bear delver deck or watched sam black top 4 the first modern pro tour than you have an idea of how good this can be. It is a disrupting shoal jace deck that doubles as a slowburning tempo strategy. Can also be cast for x0 if you just need another spell, and watching opponents freak when they get wrecked is very satisfying. Could this card have a place in a currently nonexistent control deck.
In modern though, the nearest we have to a free counter is disrupting shoal. This section explores shoal s function in grow and explains its sustained inclusion in my builds. However, ive been messing around with running disrupting shoal as a 1 of in the maindeck over the second spell pierce. The deck featured full playsets of every card, and had a consistent plan. Aggresive delver deck based around gaining tempo through evasive threats and cheap counters with a few burn spells here and. Grixis delver cant support the card, as it runs a good deal more nonblue cards than rug, among them young pyromancer, terminate, kolaghans command, and murderous cut. So disrupting shoal hasnt had a particularly illustrious modern career.
The feeling of beating your opponent, countering all their cards and ending the game with no cards in hand, while they have a full hand of cards they cant deploy, is just such satisfaction. I had plans for another article, but i have to drop everything and write about ccprod disrupting shoal ccprod because of everything that happened over the last week. Creature 14 2x cryptic serpent 4x delver of secrets 4x pteramander 4x thing in the ice spells 28 4x archmages charm 4x disrupting shoal. The deck came about as an elegant answer to handcontroloriented midrange decks like grixis control. Free counterspells are usually the thing of vintage or legacy. You havent changed a single card in the main since your initial sketch.
In modern though, the nearest we have to a free counter is disrupting shoal or commandeer. But todd anderson and brandon gaudet omitted the card from their atlantasmashing lists. All recommendations and suggestions and questions are welcome. Disrupting shoal is a good card in modern right now.
Thanks to disrupting shoal and stubborn denial, temur delver specifically, monkey grow shines brightest against linear aggro and combo decks. Great savings free delivery collection on many items. Delver has been suppressed in modern, but i think with honored hierarch the strategy could rise to prominence once more. Updated feb 22, 2019 by mrfins using our mtg deck builder. Edittheres a lot of tension with shoal here since many of the cards delver gains with the bg splash arent blue.
In fact, the only reason i thought to brew in this direction again was because of some buzz on social media about the rising stock of disrupting shoal in a protectthequeen jace metagame. Though shoal asks a bit more of you, in a streamlined format like modern, with many similarly costed. But with some spice as well in the form of disrupting shoal. View all of the top and newest decks from mtgsalvation. Updated oct 07, 2019 by rupertmarquez using our mtg deck builder. The deck reminds me of travis woos ninja bear delver. Game two i open on a delver that flips turn two and im able to ride it to victory. Ixallis diviner, ixallis keeper, jaces sentinel, jade guardian, jungle delver. I learned immediately after picking up the deck that disrupting shoal is a real card. For me, disrupting shoal is now the big draw of the deck. Play a delver, counter the early game for free and then start stripping the opponents hand to stop them getting back in the game. It could easily be part of a countersuite that pitches a spell snare first turn to stop that first turn griselbrand godhand or even just baiting your opponent into a misplay when youre tapped out. It also returns a snapcaster for more value or a delver that has not wanted to flip. Disrupting shoal modern the game mtg salvation forums.
Though shoal asks a bit more of you, in a streamlined format like modern, with many similarly costed cards throughout all the decks, it can be just as powerful. Shoal helps us play an allout tempo game, tapping out for threats on turns 1 and 2 without fearing. Darthdc im an advocate for greaves over swiftfoot boots but you can always include both there are plenty of cards that can cheaply replicate and reuse some of your most powerful etb cards. Im thinking of clones or psuedo clones like progenitor mimic, mirror mockery, phantasmal image, rite of replication, blade of selves, bramble sovereign. The mana curve of this deck is designed to max out disrupting shoal so that it feels like playing force of will in modern as much as possible. That means we trade clunky threedrops like kolaghans command for grow staples like disrupting shoal. Then, we choose to either abuse delve fatties with thought scour, or to find other cheap threats to back our namesake bug. If ninja bear delver and living end both make the top 8, missing day 2 wouldn. In legacy, bug is one of the most controlling delver decks trying to grind out a win, i. Ive extolled disrupting shoal s strength in modern grow decks since last year. Another thing charm does is pitch to disrupting shoal.