Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Legendary Creature — Human Scout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (29)

BotaNickill on EoE Orzov Aristocrats

18 hours ago

I'm loving it Buddy! Keep working those Aristocrats! I have been playtesting the Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER  ^Flip deck as well with decent results. I have been craving some Vampires lately, and feel like their time is coming! I wish Sephiroth was a Vampire, and Umbral Collar Zealot, Vampire tribal would be a sick! You have some different cards in there that I haven't messed with yet, Delney, Streetwise Lookout and Vampire Gourmand mainly.

Worrad75 on Pia-tiful Impulse Control

3 weeks ago

Seething Song for Ruby Medallion: While Medallion has a theoretical long-term upside that can't be matched, the deck is too heavily white spells at this point for the ramp to be consistently meaningful, especially early on. SS allows us to impulse draw with greater confidence knowing we can absoluteely cast whatever pops out.

Etali's Favor for Impact Tremors: This one is a test. Fully aware that tremors is a better card, but Favor is such a vibe. it enables some of our more aggresively slanted non-token creatures to crash through (it works incredibly with Laelia!) while keeping the tokens flowing. It feels similar to Unstable Amulet in that it 'replaces itself' and gets you a Pia trigger for your troubles, plus some small utility

The Flux for Runaway Steam-Kin: This deck has enough midgame mana engines. What it needs is consistent impulse draw. The normal issue with 4-CMC impulse draw engines (looking at you, Outpost Siege) is that they do nothing the turn they come in, making them a somehow-even-slower Phyrexian Arena that doesnt even actually draw the card. The Flux solves that by picking off a creature, then giving you 4 turns of advantage. If you're still around, it then gives 6 red to cast whatever you got left (you'll probably have more cards in hand, as you've been casting an extra card from exile every turn). Its basically a version of Count on Luck thats easier to cast and gives you a late-game burst that could be the exta push you need to seal a win

Inti, Seneschal of the Sun for Charismatic Conqueror: This one is also a test slot, although I'm less confident. Inti is in theory card-nuetral that helps us dig deeper for Pia triggers. Its best case scenario is when it teams up with the likes of Delney, Streetwise Lookout, Party Thrasher or Harnfel, Horn of Bounty  ^Flip to provide extra advantage. Conqueror's tokens are rarely the reason we win the game without the help of other cards, and while that may be harsh to say about a 2-drop, the fact of the matter is that we can only play so many off-plan cards before we dilute the deck.

Worrad75 on Pia-tiful Impulse Control

1 month ago

The name of the game for this round of changes is simple: MORE EXILE.

Long-Range Sensor for Count on Luck: Let me just say, I have a soft spot for Loot as a character (so cute!), so this swap is difficult on a strictly art-based level. However, if we're comparing 3-mana long-term value pieces, its not even a competition. LRS is super slick; 4 mana (3 to cast + 1 to activate, 3 colorless) for your first discover 4 as compared to 3 mana (no colorless) for an impulse draw on upkeep is about equal, but then you factor that LRS can both store its counters and also activate more than once a turn. This would be useful if we have a dominant boardstate but are afraid of a board wipe, we could sandbag the activations. The impulse draw from Count on Luck is nice but 3 red pips is also just way too restrictive to consistently cast on turn 3, which is when youd like to cast it to get max value.

Warleader's Call for Painter's Studio / Defaced Gallery: Lets not get it twisted; Warleader's Call is a great card. But this deck needs more exile, and so more exile is what it'll get. Studio gives us the card advantage and access to exile we crave, while Defaced Gallery gives us that extra reach that we need to close out a game. Obviously, WC is better when all you need is damage, but this deck has a fail rate and we need to respect that by finding ways to deal damage while keeping the cards flowing. For what its worth, 3 mana -> 2 mana (and dropping a pip) isn't insignificant as a 'Im casting this from exile for as little as possible' metric, and the on-attack buff from Galleryrather than the constant one from Call can avoid anti-synergy with cards like The Battle of Bywater and Delney, Streetwise Lookout, which comes up more often than you would think.

Glimpse the Impossible for Reconstruct History: This is my hardest cut. I love Reconstruct History as a reload-and-do-it-again effect. It gives the deck its only recursion, and when it has its high points (like picking up Battle Hymn, Jeska's WillGC, Lantern of Insight, Connecting the Dots, and Quintorius Kand from your graveyard for 4 mana) it feels like the best card in the deck. However, that pendulum swings both ways; its not uncommon to impulse draw this early in the game and have nothing but an Infernal Plunge in your graveyard. Glimpse the Impossible is also card advantage, but it specifically circumvents the possibility of a wasting the spell by refunding you for un-used cards in the form of Scion tokens. Mondrak, Glory Dominus gets even happier with this swap, we go down in CMC and a color pip, and overall the deck should run a bit smoother with this. That said, There's a high chance I revert this change, as this deck has pretty close to the perfect card type distribution for a card like Reconstruct History to really shine.

And yes, I'm officially cutting Hidden Volcano and Cori Mountain Monastery for Mountains. Got burned in-game by the Volcano already, and we have cards like Clifftop Retreat to consider. The flavor win is there, but its time to be realistic; I've seen these cards a combined 15+ times in games and never activated their abilities.

Worrad75 on Pia-tiful Impulse Control

1 month ago

The deck has been through quite a few iterations. Here are the changes at a macro level:

Interaction

Get Lost: flexible, cheap removal. Maps aren't so bad to gve because we're going FAST.

Case of the Gateway Express: getting a free anthem stapled to a Doom Blade is great. Sorcery speed is a downside but well worth it

Requisition Raid: Same as the Case above, but for artifacts + enchantments. Super nice that there's only 1 pip in the cost (Commander Liara Portyr can let us cast this from exile with all 3 modes for a single white mana!)

Damage

Delney, Streetwise Lookout, Mondrak, Glory Dominus, Stridehangar Automaton: Double tokens = good. Delney has overlapping synergy with a few notable cards (Professional Face-Breaker and Grenzo, Havoc Raiser chief amoung them) and is essentially exactly what we wanted from Cursed Mirror in the initial build but WAY better. The new build has a greater diversity of tokens as well, so Mondrak isnt just here to 2x Pia. Automaton doubling Pia AND triggering off of other artifact tokens is incredible (more on that below).

Illustrious Wanderglyph, Charismatic Conqueror, Dollmaker's Shop / Porcelain Gallery: token diversity is important to this deck; it helps take heat off of our commander (who previously was the only thing producing a meaningful boardstate), and offers us another way to make tokens if our exile plan isn't fully getting off the ground. Wanderglyph buffs our thopters and the Shop tokens (both have incredible synergy with Stridehangar Automaton), Conqueror's tokens give us a bit of much needed lifegain (and synergize with the newly added Case of the Gateway Express), but the biggest add here is the Shop: measly 2 mana investment up front for some free chump blockers/Impact Tremors triggers, and a MASSIVE threat whenever you have 6 mana for the Gallery. Its comically easy to attack with a handful of thopters and have EACH of them hit for 10+ damage, especially because on attack the 3 tokens you get essentially give +3/+3. thats a free Skyhunter Strike Force every turn!

Unstable Amulet, Warleader's Call: Impact Tremors is already a fantastic card that we run. Amulet is essentially a Tremors that also draws us a card and gives us a body thanks to Pia. Warleader's Call is a Tremors stapled to a Glorious Anthem. The passive burn damage with continue until morale improves!

Cards

Connecting the Dots: This seemingly innocuous card is an example of 'layering' at its finest. This deck's ability to build a boardstate is impressive, but it isn't the best at protecting it (using impulse draw as your primary advantage engine makes cards like the now-removed Boros Charm worse than they normally are, as you usually can't use them at the perfect time, and your opponents will see it coming). On top of that, you are usually "spending" the cards in your hand to exile cards from your deck; its not uncommon for this deck to impulse draw 3+ cards a turn while also only having <=3 cards actually in hand. Similar to Skullclamp, CtD allows you to convert your boardstate back into card advantage, but this time its 'delayed' and doesn't require continuous mana investment or for you to get rid of your creatures. Its not uncommon to swing out after playing this, get board-wiped on someone else's turn, only to crack this right before you untap and essentially draw 10+ cards to rebuild with. Low initial mana investment for a huge upside swing that refills the only resource we often get low on; cards in our actual hand.

Coward_Token on Ratabingbong, Drivnod's Emissary

3 months ago

Why Delney, Streetwise Lookout? Raticate has more than 2 power?

I guessing you've already thought of Anointed Procession

Wake the Dead could be cute

Beebles on Malcolm, Siren of The Flying Dutchman | V-EOE

6 months ago

Hey YourNeighborhoodGhost. Thanks for your question.

I can see why you'd ask for those, as they do gel with the rest of the deck, but for me these two cards don't provide enough compared to other options. I do not run that many pirates, so compared to something like Delney, Streetwise Lookout, roaming throne seems a bit too much mana in this list for what it's doing. And Broadside Bombadiers seems more at home to me in a deck where you can sacrifice artifacts with a high cmc rather than treasure tokens.

GL & GF,

Beebles

Bookrook on What commander for a Hare …

6 months ago

Delney, Streetwise Lookout is pretty ridiculous with Hare Apparent. Arabella, Abandoned Doll is good too. However, Arabella gets enough value from other cards that I prefer playing about 15-20 apparents. So Arabella if you want mostly other cards, delney if you want most cards to be hare apparent.

Balaam__ on New to Pioneer. *HELP*

7 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions Bookrook. I think I’ll pass on Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines due to price, casting cost and since she isn’t a spirit (or ’spirit adjacent’).

Delney, Streetwise Lookout is easier to cast and might hold promise, but again that price is steep (and I utterly despise the artwork). Also, non-spirit. That last bit isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker, but if at all possible I’d like to stay within that creature type, so the card would have to be a perfect fit to break that self-imposed rule.

As always, thanks for posting!