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UW Counterbalance

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Experimental Jeskai Delver/turbo xerox build

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Small changes — Oct. 16, 2017
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After playing two sanctioned events where I went 2-2-0 (mostly against meta decks), I decided to cut Exhaustion. Interestingly I've barely drawn it and barely got to play it; the one time I did draw it, it was quite useful. Nevertheless, I want the deck's top-end to be more likely to two-for-one. I find myself often bringing in Spell Quellers. So putting in Spell Quellers gives me more sideboard space. I originally included Exhaustion because it's a dope Noxious Revival target, but I've found that hitting an opponent's fetch land is often just as good of a Noxious Revival target anyway.

Counterbalance has been better than I thought. The match-up versus Grixis Death Shadow is more or less decided by whether I can land a Counterbalance. On the play, they can't really do much to keep me from resolving a Counterbalance if I have Noxious Revival in hand (sick Thoughtseize bro).

Monastery Mentor has also been insane. It sticks around and makes tons of tokens a lot more than I would have guessed.

The deck's obvious problem is that delver simply isn't well-positioned in a world with Fatal Push. Death's Shadow and Goyf are the only two "value" creatures worth playing anymore that can get pushed without revolt. That makes me wonder if you can build an esper version of the deck, maybe with Lingering Souls in the sideboard.

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