Hey guys, I ended up going 10-5 with Grixis Delver at SCG Baltimore for a 49th place finish. Sadly I lost the last 2 rounds to put me out of top 8 or top 32 contention. I plan on writing a tournament report going over the deck and match-ups. I never got around to writing one after winning SCG regionals, but I'll really try this time. Anyway here's the decklist I played.
Thanks! This deck's worst match-up is by far is Tron and the issue I have with cards like Fulminator Mage and Molten Rain against Tron is they don't actually solve our problem. We can't beat Tron going long, and it's hard to kill them before they get to that point. A single land destruction spell will buy us 1 turn, but if they have another copy of that piece it didn't really accomplish anything. If we don't have a threat in play when resolving Mage or Molten Rain we've basically taken an entire turn off to get nowhere. Sure we can rebuy Fulminator with Kcommand but that is way too slow to beat Tron. Iv'e found that a resolved Crumble is the easiest way to beat this horrendous match-up. The only real way they can stop it is countering it with Warping Wail. On the draw we can still lose to an early resolved Karn Liberated , but hopefully we have a counterspell into a Crumble. Crumble also has utility against R/G Scapeshift, which I did play against and used Crumble to exile all of his Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle in one of the sideboard games and easily won from there.
Hey guys I was able to win the Baltimore regionals with Grixis Delver and I'm going to try and get around to writing a Tournament report/deck guide soon! Here's the decklist:
1 Gurmag Angler
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Blood Crypt
1 Darkslick Shores
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Spirebluff Canal
2 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave
3 Fatal Push
2 Kolaghan's Command
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Mana Leak
1 Remand
3 Spell Snare
2 Terminate
4 Thought Scour
1 Collective Brutality
4 Serum Visions
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Izzet Staticaster
2 Countersquall
2 Dispel
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Collective Brutality
2 Blood Moon
1 Painful Truths
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Gurmag Angler
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Darkslick Shores
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Spirebluff Canal
2 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave
3 Fatal Push
2 Kolaghan's Command
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Mana Leak
3 Spell Snare
2 Terminate
4 Thought Scour
1 Collective Brutality
4 Serum Visions
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Izzet Staticaster
2 Countersquall
2 Dispel
1 Magma Spray
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Collective Brutality
2 Crumble to Dust
2 Painful Truths
1 Vandalblast
1 Desolate Lighthouse