Land (23)
Instant (19)
Creature (3)
Sorcery (9)
Enchantment (2)
Planeswalker (4)
Sideboard
Creature (10)
Instant (3)
Artifact (2)
What's going on here?
First and foremost, this is a grixis control deck. The deck has removal, card draw, counters, sweepers, and incredibly slow win conditions to finish the game out with. The only creatures in the entire deck are 3 Snapcaster Mage, which are just so you can use your instants a second time while getting a 2/1 body to block with. Straightforward, super slow, and in general is just trying to make the game go long enough that your Jaces or Creeping Tar Pits eventually win the game against an opponent with no board, no hand, and no hope. Fun, right? Well, next game your opponent is going to bring in their value engines, their land removal, and anything else they have for the control matchup, while taking out all of their creature removal and anti-aggro cards. Any you know what you're going to do.
You're going to turn into grixis delver.
The decks cores are similar enough that 15 cards is plenty to switch between the two. Delver wants removal, card draw, counters, and a few cheap threats that act as win conditions. Swap out the sweepers and value engines, along with cutting the land count, and you now have a deck that is going under your opponent and out tempoing them, all while they look at their hands full of anti-control cards with no removal. Young Pyromancer, Delver of Secrets
, and Gurmag Angler make those negates look really silly. Game three is just a guessing game of whether you're opponent sides against delver or control, and if you guess wrong you just try to fight through sideboard hate (not too hard with the amount of counters you're running).
Why don't more people do this?
Well, you're at a disadvantage against decks that you really do need a sideboard for. The Surgical Extractions can help against graveyard decks, and the cheap counters can disrupt their enablers, but there's still times bridge vine will just swing for 8 on the first turn and you can't really do too much about it except try to have enough removal to survive till you have a sweeper. Additionally, game three the cat's out of the bag, and it's 50/50 whether you stomp on them or get killed based on what each of you sideboarded. Finally, if you're at an event where word travels, your opponent may already know your trick, and now you're playing underpowered delver against a deck that sideboarded for delver, and you're just out of luck.
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| Date added | 5 years |
| Last updated | 5 years |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 10 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 6 Rares 8 - 7 Uncommons 9 - 2 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.08 |
| Tokens | Elemental 1/1 R |
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