We’ve played with both mono-Red and mono-Black, and they’re both excellent piles of cards, but they aren’t true to the kind of Magic I enjoy playing. As someone who pretends to be an anthropomorphic wolf mind mage on the internet, I’ve always been a blue wizard at heart.
Fortunately for me, blue is almost as easy to build on a budget as red in this format, with even competitive decks running mostly commons and uncommons. Eternal formats like Legacy are already aware of how powerful Delver of Secrets can be, and we have all the tools in Standard to showcase what it can do.
Decklist from MTGGoldfish: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5197227#paper
Just kidding. This deck technically runs a playset of Delver of Secrets, and it can easily become the win condition. At yet, the true all-star of the deck is Haughty Djinn. Like Delver, Djinn is a win condition for the deck that can easily close a game out in a few swings. But even more than that, it gives us a discount on our spells, which means we can cast him on turn 4 and still have mana open to protect him.
The game plan is as simple as it can be. If we can keep Delver, Djinn, or Tolarian Terror on board, and clear the way, we can disrupt our opponent’s early game and destroy them quickly enough to prevent them from getting a late game. We have plenty of ways to churn through our deck to arrive at the cards we need, and once we get them we have ways of making sure our opponent can’t touch them.
Against aggro and midrange, we don’t have too much trouble. We can keep our opponent off tempo while advancing our own board and game plan to quickly outvalue them. The only thing we need to be worried about is making sure that we don’t let a game last too long, otherwise our counterspell suite becomes significantly less effective.
Still, this is blue magic at its best. We blue mages always think we have all the answers. Unfortunately for the other colors, we’re usually right.
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