The Source Rug Delver

Canadian threshold rug delver.

The source rug delver.

This means our primary game plan is to stick a threat and keep it alive until it closes out the game. Canadian threshold aka rug delver tempo thresh on the source canadian thresh a k a. Do any rug delver players play a maindeck magmatic sinkhole. In the inaugural post of this blog i thought i d go through some of the deck s more common match ups.

Most of the time comes down for 1 mana it s simply the more efficient resilient and evasive threat. Rug tempo tempo thresh on the source the newest and older rug delver threads on the source both of these have excellent history sections in their opening posts and have information from people with a lot more credibility than me. Rug delver is as i ve stated before the premiere delver deck of the format right now. Yeah the inability to just deal with a big vanilla creature has always been the achilles heel of rug delver.

Team america or bug delver might be a stronger deck in some match ups and patriot uwr delver has a better long game than rug in some cases but overall no other delver deck can match rug in terms of consistency and above all abusing delver of secrets. Loam is perhaps one of the best wasteland decks in the format and it can use this format defining land to utterly take over games against delver. That plan works well against midrange and control decks that are slower than us and actively seek to kill our threats but it is subpar against aggro ramp and combo. A lot of information here will be derived from information there but with new.

Pt born of the gods runner up jacob wilson brings you a special version of rug delver with pt champion alexander hayne. 6 of those tap for colored mana. An aggro control deck based around hand distruption delver of secrets and deathrite shaman. Team america bug delver.

For reference here s a link to my primer on the source. Deck canadian threshold aka rug delver tempo thresh trample is a huge reason why and immunity to abrupt decay is an added bonus. Rug delver runs 19 lands. Rug delver is a tempo deck.

A fast paced tempo deck revolving around delver of secrets tarmogoyf and stifle wasteland. The blue version has oko which is both an. I don t want to get into primary source vs. Punishing fire is a recurring source of direct damage that is very unprofitable to counter.