Budget Delver

by vigilant_legacy on 12 August 2012

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Sorceries (3)


Instants (9)

Planeswalkers (1)

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Deck Description

A U/R Delver deck attempting to stay very reasonable in price

Deck Tags

  • Casual

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

0280140

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Budget Delver

Nice. I just built a U/R Delver myself just now.

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Posted 13 August 2012 at 21:50

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This looks like a solid budget deck.
Hey try to fit four Gitaxian Probes in there it can be very helpful in getting that turn 1 delver, also it looks to me like you could easily get away with running only 20 lands in this deck. oh and Runechanter's Pike is a cheapo rare that could be nasty in your deck.

my budget delver deck:
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=368644

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Posted 14 August 2012 at 16:31

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Thanks for the suggestions. I was trying to avoid runechanter's pikes in this particular deck, which is why I went with trepenation blade, which mills my opponent and is effective no matter how many instants and sorceries are in my graveyard.

In terms of lands, my only concern is not having enough sulfur falls and then falling short on mana for spells like talrand's invocation or magmaquake. I'd need to play the deck a few times to be certain it would work.

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Posted 15 August 2012 at 21:52

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I would run silver inlaid dagger instead of trepanation blade. think about this: you're never going to mill your opponent to death with trep blade, and they could be running something slightly graveyard based. also, the turn 3 trep drop, turn 4 equip vs. like a turn 1 delver, turn 2 ponder, silver inlaid dagger, turn 3 probably flip the delver, swing for 6 in the air, as opposed to swinging for an average of less than 6 (most decks run more than 20 lands, a third of the deck, statistically, slightly less than 6) on turn 4... just faster, and easier. mill is usually a negative thing on your opponent, unless you can do it so much you kill them. there's really no benefit to them having more cards in graveyard unless you have a card that takes advantage of cards in your opponents graveyard, which you don't here.

also, why avoid runechanter's pike? I'd run that even over silver inlaid dagger

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Posted 29 August 2012 at 17:25

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