4 more months :)
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Posted on June 20, 2012, 1:14 p.m. by DARK_r3ck0n1ng
For all the people who haven't looked up the new ban listed effective July 1st well I tell you.
Legacy: Land Tax is unbanned.
Modern: Nothing....
Standard: NOTHING!!!!!
4 MORE MONTHS OF DELVER TOPPING EVERYWHERE YOU GO!!!! ENJOY
Delver's not Caw-Blade. Nothing needed to be banned.
OP has likely never played against Caw-Blade and has never been at the mercy of a Squadron Hawk equipped with a Batterskull and a Sword of Feast and Famine backed up by Jace, the Mind Sculptor .
Stoneforge Mystic + Jace, the Mind Sculptor =/= Insectile Aberration Flip + Geist of Saint Traft .
If you're being consistently beaten by Delver at FNM, play better decks. It's not THAT good.
June 20, 2012 1:33 p.m.
DARK_r3ck0n1ng says... #5
The thing with Delver decks is that like 66-72% of people tend to play Delver at large events, which has dropped some do to UW Midrange which is a better deck I think. Also the 3 cards in Delver are Delver of Secrets Flip , Ponder , Snapcaster Mage . These 3 cards are what do the most damage in the deck. Now they are not as good as Jace but Ponder is very close in effect to what Stoneforge Mystic had in the Caw, to Delver decks. Many people just find the deck, "like really your playing Delver too....."
June 20, 2012 1:40 p.m.
Well, I suspect this is a troll, but will respond legitimately regardless. Delver isn't really that hard to beat, but you do have to use the right deck for the job, or tweak your deck accordingly. I've seen pod lists running Stingerfling Spider to beat Delver. Mental Misstep rocks delver's face off. Run a few Cavern of Souls with some ETB critters like Acidic Slime .
None of the cards in Delver are broken, and Delver wouldn't die if any one of them were banned. Wizards made the right call to not ban anything in Standard. Yes, it's annoying that Standard has become stagnant, but there are other formats to be played. Modern is up for grabs right now, give that a try.
Miasma says... #2
Yay!. Good thing I traded for my Snappy's at 20$ because of this whole fiasco. Now I just have to wait until they are not being printed so I can make uber profit!
June 20, 2012 1:17 p.m.