MTG Salvation

Been having a lot of fun with this today. The threshold + delirium creatures mean the deck is pure fatties. It's pretty common to hit delirium second or third turn and threshold soon after.

Here's what I have so far.



I tried with gurmag but delve and threshold conflict sometimes. Could maybe fit 1 or 2 in, but I've had them sit in hand and wished it was a backwoods survivalists. Usually the opponent is staring down a 3/3, 3/4, 4/4, and 5/4 pretty quick. Moldgraf and satyr help block in the early game but I'm getting run over most of the time (friggin squadron hawks ^^'). Not sure what's best to sure it up. Considering commune with the gods over grisly salvage, but sometimes you want a land. However, that would let me ease up on the black mana because you usually want double green early.

Thoughts on this?

Did I play against you a few days ago? I was on RUG Thresh. If so I'd like to suggest you to cut 2 Backwood Survivalists, 1 Echoing Decay and Font of Return for Thraben Foulbloods. They might be weak to bolt, but 4/3 Menace for 3 are pretty good stats. I'd also run Ghastly Demise instead of both Dead Weight and Doom Blade as it's a strictly better Doom Blade in your deck.

Yeah, that was probably me. I'm trying it with most of those changes now. Haven't played the foulbloods yet but they seem good. Less backwoods is working out since they used to clog hand too much at 4. The real stars are the 1 and 2 drop creatures. I'm on commune now with the enchantments. It's been the same so far really. I think more enchantments out of the board might matter some. But it makes it so there's few instants in the deck which has messed up delirium. Also trying a crippling fatigue in place of chainer's because it takes a while to get to 7.

The deck I play is a pure Dredge, sorta Delirium deck. Moldgraf is the only Delirium creature I have but the reason I suggest this list, other than because I freaking love it and that it is because its surprisingly good (despite weird additions like Pristine Talisman), is because despite all of the Delve creatures its actually pretty good at maintaining Delirium.



Krosan Tusker is a GREAT card. It grabs lands, draws a card, AND is a creature! Cycling is instant speed so its great there. Did I mention its a creature? A big one at that. Totes want this guy in a deck like this.

You are already doing a great thing with the Cycling and Fetch lands. I wonder if the artifact lands are really necessary though? I just run Talisman in their place. Granted, without Delve you need some kind of Ramp (which is what Talisman does in addition to keeping alive into the late game where this deck gets stupid).

Consider Drown in Filth for removal. With the Cycle & Fetch Lands (and without Delve) you can end up with a ton of lands in the 'yard. The biggest creature in Pauper is like an 8/8, so it kind of struggles to hit that (but what doesn't). For most average creatures (x/5 or less) it can hit them quite easily.

I'm running fewer creatures than you, but I can't imagine a deck like this functioning without access to something like Regrowth, Font, or Pulse in larger concentrations. Getting creatures back from the 'yard is so critical to maintaining gas. Sometimes that's even better than drawing cards because as long as you still have a 'yard you guarantee you get the card you want. You are going to draw cards naturally throughout the course of the game, especially if you are cycling a lot of cards. Being able to get extra uses out of those creatures means that each card goes just that much further. Also, Pulsing a Tusker isn't as bad a plan as it sounds.