MTG Salvation

I'm working on a 2hg combo/control deck
running 4 delvers and 4 thing in the ice
The rest is counters and draw
Hoping to combo fate transfer with thing in the ice and get a little early pressure with Delver

If you had the choice would you go with Telling time or See Beyond

Thanks

If you are using Shared Fate, Telling Time gets around it so I would go with See Beyond.

That's an interesting card, but no I am not running it.

If you are just looking at the two cards with out any outside influence which would you choose? I'm pretty sure it's situational depending on the deck so if you really need more info I can paste up a deck list really quick but I feel as though this would go into the realms of deck creation at that point.

Thanks

In a vacuum, Telling Time is a much better choice due to digging deeper and working well with fetches; however, the fact that you're using a narrow card like Fate Transfer (note that you'll still need to cast another instant/sorcery to actually transform Thing in the Ice) means it will probably sit dead in your hand unless you run tons of creatures with undesirable counters or play against tons of +1/+1 counter decks. See Beyond would, at least, relieve you of that burden.

Why not use Peer through Depths instead ?

You know what I'm going to change my deck theme to focus more on control by turning stuff into tokens feeding into the Thing in the ice flip

Thanks for all the responses. Since everyone is being so helpful let me be more helpful and here is the decklist. Suggestions and ideas are welcome and appreciated!

Land

Halimar Depths x3
Island x21

Everything Else

Telling Time x2
See Beyond x4 (Thanks Ragnork)
Vapor Snag x4
Echoing Truth x4
Fate Transfer x3
Whelming Wave x2
Curse of Swine x2
Rapid Hybridization x4
Voyage's End x4

Creatures

Delver of secrets x4
Thing in the ice x4

I also have 4 serum visions just hanging out so if you think I can replace anything here with those let me know

Really appreciate everyone

*bump

Anyone??

Thx

Awesome sauce! Thanx!!!

There does seem to be a little to much "return to hand" I can take out 4 and take out fate transer then add some negates and dispels or what would you suggest?

The meta runs very little sorcery

Revised Deck

Land

Halimar Depths x3
Island x19

Everything Else

Dispel x3
serum visions x4
Vapor Snag x4
Echoing Truth x4
Dispel x3
reality shift x2
Curse of the Swine x2
Rapid Hybridization x4
Voyage's End x4

Creatures

Delver of secrets x4
Thing in the ice x4

Better?

Thanks

Repeal is in the TCG cart! Will play test tmr for FNM and let you know how it goes.

Removing Dispel and putting in negate

Be_Lakor youre awesome!! thanks again

I think that Remand should be in the deck as it pairs nicely with Thing.
I would use it over Dispel or Negate in the maindeck.

You can use Pongify as more copies of Rapid Hybridization over Reality Shift and Curse of the Swine.

In a deck full of instants and sorceries Peer through Depths is the best card draw/selection option in my opinion.
I would add a couple, instead of some of the 2-cmc bounce spells

I dont have pongify handy but ordered a playset!

Ah remand have 4 and they are in my mono u faries decks!

Need to order some peer through depths

Thanks for the suggestions!!

Wow woooow I love all this info!!

Snapcaster and cryptic command are just out of reach as far as what i'm willing to pay for 4 cards (one day) I have a lot of good cards usually not costing more than 40 bucks for a playset, I will get some spell snare's and spell pierce soon!



Also just to let you know as it was tonight this deck went 3-1 (Thanks Be_) actually the only game I lost with this deck was in a 3 way (1v1v1 first person dead and player with highest life total wins) in actual 2HG I swept with this deck and anyone that wasn't on my team was just sitting there getting their faces stomped by Delver then sending all their tokens back with Thing and proceeded to stomp again. Serum visions is so powerful with this deck and Halimar depths.. There wasn't one game I didn't get what I needed. Everything was flipping and turning into tokens left and right

I'll continue to tweak the deck and I have several other decks that I'll post up in the forum in the near future since the great responses

How long have you been playing Magic Be_lakor? You have an extraordinary amount of knowledge

I had Gitaxian Probe but I sold them like a dummy before I started to heavily favor blue.. Almost dont want to buy them again based on principle.

My Mono U faeries deck looks like this:

2 Faerie Conclave
15 Island
4 halimar Depths
3 Telling Time
4 Mana Leak
4 Remand
4 Vapor Snag
4 Faerie Miscreant
2 Mistbind Clique
4 Pestermite
4 Quickling
4 Scion of Oona
4 Spellstutter Sprite

Gnite

Another night going 2-0 with this deck!

haven't even got the Spell Pierces or Gitaxian Probes yet either!!