It didn’t impress me enough to be a consistent mainstay. Languish was a pretty awesome card when it worked, but missed out on hitting some key cards like Siege Rhino and Polukranos. I went down to 21 lands which helped with flood but wasn’t quite there yet. This version of the deck was a step in the right direction but was nowhere near complete.

It was at this point that I realized that all of my main threats had 5 toughness, which led me to try a new version of the deck based around Languish. I was also flooding on lands very frequently because of Treasure Cruise and Once Upon a Time. I felt that I had a powerful idea, but I wasn’t getting my delve threats out fast enough to matter and I didn’t have enough interaction to effectively stop my opponent.

Haunted Dead was thrown in as something that I can mill and still get value out of.Īfter playing with this list for a while, I was constantly losing. Blue was just a splash at this point for cards like Treasure Cruise and Opt, and a few sideboard cards. Round out the deck with Thoughtseizes, Fatal Pushes, and Abrupt Decays and you have an interactive gameplan backed up by a huge threat that dodges most of the removal of the format. Combine with cards like Stitcher’s Supplier and Satyr Wayfinder and you can efficiently fill up the graveyard for cheap.

This combined with cards like Fabled Passage meant we have a lot of ways to get cards in the yard for free in the early turns, which will help us get out an early Gurmag. My initial idea for this deck centered on Once Upon a Time being a free spell that can find your delve threats and help cast them. Let’s start with my first iteration of turbo delve featuring Once Upon a Time. I want to talk about the first deck I started with, the evolutions I made along the way, and how I finally ended up on a deck that can consistently and easily cast turn 2 Treasure Cruises. Trying to build a deck around these delve cards has been a journey in and of itself, with many different iterations finally taking me to a deck that I am happy to show off today. These cards have been banned in almost every format they have been legal in and while we don’t have fetchlands to effortlessly power them out, there is still a lot of potential in pushing them to their limits in an attempt to break them. Brewers have already been successful with Felidar Guardian, Oath of Nissa, and Leyline of Abundance so it’s time for us to turn to the other broken cards of the format. We are at a point in the format where it is our goal as players to break cards in half and get them banned.

Mtg tome scour dredge