The Source Rug Delver

In the inaugural post of this blog i thought i d go through some of the deck s more common match ups.

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. 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. Punishing fire is a recurring source of direct damage that is very unprofitable to counter. A lot of information here will be derived from information there but with new.

For reference here s a link to my primer on the source. Team america bug delver. I guess now you can oko elk bolt but that s a lot of mana to invest into killing a goyf. An aggro control deck based around hand distruption delver of secrets and deathrite shaman.

The blue version has oko which is both an. A fast paced tempo deck revolving around delver of secrets tarmogoyf and stifle wasteland. Canadian threshold rug delver. I don t want to get into primary source vs.

This is part one of a series of articles dealing with my favorite deck of all time rug delver. Rug delver is a tempo deck. Full deck details including strategies lists and the like can be found over at the source. Rug delver runs 19 lands.

Rug delver is as i ve stated before the premiere delver deck of the format right now. Most of the time comes down for 1 mana it s simply the more efficient resilient and evasive threat. 6 of those tap for colored mana. 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.

Pt born of the gods runner up jacob wilson brings you a special version of rug delver with pt champion alexander hayne. Do any rug delver players play a maindeck magmatic sinkhole. 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. Deck canadian threshold aka rug delver tempo thresh trample is a huge reason why and immunity to abrupt decay is an added bonus.