Deck Changes -
Lots of changes. Based on the grixis delver that got 23rd at the GP, I'm adding 3 Deprives (cutting mana leaks and remands) which means I need more islands. So I removed 2 Inquisition of Kozilek in favor of 2 Spell Snare. Added 2 Islands, cut a watery grave and mountain. +1 terminate -1 far/away, +1 thought scour +1 forked bolt +1 calcite snapper, -2 Countersquall -1 Spellstutter
Round 1 vs Micheal on Abzan
Game 1 - He lands a goyf which hits me down to 11 while I'm busy countering his other threats. Finally I find a terminate, followed by my Calcite Snapper, and he cannot find a liliana before the snapper beats him down, while I use Deprives to continually fuel Landfall and prevent him from landing any blockers.
SB- +keranos+monasterysiege -forkedbolt-1thoughtscour
Game 2 - My opponent mulls to 5, turn 1 thoughtsiezes away my delver. Luckily I topdeck another one. It flips immediately and I hit him down to 12 before he finds an abrupt decay. Then he shocks himself to 10 and slams down a Thrun. I respond with a Tasigur, and we play draw go for a little bit, but my tasigur starts returning cards. I play delver, flip it, and immediately run it into an evolving wildwood >_> Luckily, my hand has 2 bolts, and when my opponent plays a Confidant, I let him have it. He flips a Rhino, takes 4, and then gets double bolted. (2-0)
Round 2 vs Jerry on Scapeshift
These were mostly non-games tbh. I lose game 1 because I didn't pressure his lifetotal enough, then games 2 and 3 I played turn 4 slaughter games, and his deck had no alternate wincon. (2-1)
Round 3 vs John on Abzan
Game1 I deal with a goyf and liliana with terminate+snapcasterbolt. But I couldn't find any counters, and he proceeded to resolve multiple rhinos which I couldnt deal with.
Game 2 I had a great start with turn 2 tasigur, but turn 3 I made the mistake of not holding up mana and let it die to liliana. There's few ways for them to deal with an early tasigur, so I need to protect him more carefully. After that I managed to kill the liliana and flip a delver, but he raced me easily with rhinos.
(0-2)
Round 4 vs Jonathan on Grixis PyroDelver
Same deal as last time. I play 3 more lands than he does, and more action spells. i just have to deal with his early threats asap, and then allow my natural card advantage to beat him lategame while he wastes time with his massive number of cantrips. As long as I never allow a Young Pyromancer to make a bunch of tokens, I don't feel any pressure. Making land drops naturally is much better tempo-wise than wasting mana on cantrips. And gitaxian probing gives a chance of racing. And the turtle is unkillable as long as I watch out for ambush vipers. (2-0)
Overall (3-1)
I liked this build a lot more. I had to Logic Knot for 1 multiple times off a single fetchland, which seems potentially bad, but i also played it for X=4/5 a couple times. Seems better than manaleak. Deprive was amazing. The landfall synergy came up more often than I thought it would.
