This is an old semibudget RU delver deck. You can find my new RUG delver deck here
Hi there,
This is actually my first modern deck ;)it is oriantated to --U R Delver-- , but according to play FNM Modern i decided that i won't use a bunch of 20+$ cards.
the plan is to play Delver of Secrets and Young Pyromancer and a lot of instants and sorceries to support them. We have a lot of burn spells (Lightning Bolt) and counter spells (Mana Leak) so we can play pretty aggressively or use controllmagic - both to stop our openents and go for an earlygame-win
Pros: This deck should be very fast and still flexible to control the board which helps us against a lot of modern decks
But we play important creatures so we got to protect them with our counterspells, if we can't we fall behind very soon, but according to this we can't spend our mana everytime we could play our burnspells - to sum up you got to know your openents deck and play wisely between our burn and control options or we will fall behind... i didn't tested it a lot but against some decks it is better and some are worse (for example ajundy felt equal whereass monoredburn was just to fast for us)
decklist breakdown with explanation
i will add a new soon :) this is the old version !!!
//// 19 Lands
6Island
3Mountain
1Shivan Reef manafixing
1Temple of Epiphany just one it is tapped - but scry helps a lot
2Halimar Depths close to scry
2Sulfur Falls watch out that you play enough island, mountain lands!
4Steam Vents if you feel like it you can even play it untapped without use and bluff your openent for one turn
//// 12 Creatures
4Delver of Secrets lovely stats+flying after a few turns !
2Invisible Stalker carries the runechanters pike against creaturehate
4Young Pyromancer !
1Venser, Shaper Savant flash+bounce a spell to make it fizzle even if it is uncounterable or just a permanent (even lands!)
1Snapcaster Mage awesome but expensive
//// 27 Spells
4Gitaxian Probe gives information to play wisely + carddraw most times for 2 life - combos of with pyromancer and talrand
3Magma Jet scry
1Condescend a counter with scry2, or even just a scryresponse without countering :)
1 Electrolyze we can split 2 damage and draw a card !
2Vapor Snag it can bounce our own creatures to rescue them (sadly we don't have Snapcaster Mage but there are still reasons to bounce our creatures) or just bounce a big enemy
4Lightning Bolt allstar
4Remand best tempo-counter !!!
4Serum Visions the modern legal Preordain
1Dismember our answer when midgame starts, but we got to hurry and it hurts a lot
1Spell Snare you will see a lot of 2drops in modern!
2Spell Pierce perfect earlygame counter to noncreatures - more and more useless in lategame but this deck is fast
//// 2 Artifacts
1Runechanter's Pike we don't play a playset Snapcaster Mage or Grim Lavamancer so we often find a grave filled for this beauty
1Sword of War and Peace the more expensive but consistent equipment :D runechanters is great but gravehate shouldn't be an answer to all of your cards while a lot of decks play Relic of Progenitus and Tormod's Crypt
(sideboard depends on meta)
