by mtgsoldier on 2012-06-24 07:32 CET

Candace I LOVE YOU!

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by LuckyDucky on 2012-06-24 08:05 CET

No delver?!

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by Shagrath on 2012-06-24 09:25 CET

Delver players were on strike.
Treacherous pit dweller on zombies lol.

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by Candace on 2012-06-24 10:21 CET

@LuckyDucky: Delver is extremely overrated. The deck is fine but Naya/RG Aggro has a favourable matchup vs. Delver, and Zombies vs. Delver is relatively even, although it can go either way depending on the builds involved. Both decks are good vs. the rest of the field too, they're not just anti-delver. I kind of wish people would stop complaining about how Standard is being dominated by Delver when the only reason people are playing it is because they've jumped on a bandwagon, but at the same time as long as people keep playing Delver, I will keep beating them very easily with Naya.

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by CChildress on 2012-06-24 11:57 CET

You're 50/50 against Delver all day with Naya Pod. that is all.

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by darkwizard42 on 2012-06-24 14:49 CET

Pit Dweller is fine...with 7 unsummons, you just basically wasted your removal on it =/

Interesting meta choice regardless

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by BaronT on 2012-06-24 15:06 CET

Really depends on the build of delver. Pod gets wrecked all day against delver builds with splicer+gut shot.

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by Candace on 2012-06-24 19:10 CET

BaronT: I've run into and beat builds like that consistently. This Naya deck is incredibly well tuned not only to beat Delver, but also pretty much the rest of the field. Hence why I believe it's the best deck. Delver's good against the field except Naya, Naya's good against the field AND Delver.

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by Canabiest on 2012-06-25 01:12 CET

I did not build the "Zombies" Deck, not too much tribal synergies really I guess. It was build by Sascha Tomsen and played by Andre Müller to win a PTQ. Looked interesting and I liked to play it as well. Metachoice deck but it can work.

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by pankill on 2012-06-25 02:57 CET

candance MARRY ME!!!!!!!!!!!

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by CChildress on 2012-06-26 00:57 CET

I stand by my first post.

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by JeZeus on 2012-06-26 03:53 CET

Did you even play against delver in this event? I see a total of 4 delver lists, one which dropped 1-0, two that seem sub-optimal, and one that is good but a player I don't recognize.

You are right though, people do complain about Delver far too much. It is true, the only reason there is so much delver is due to people jumping on the band wagon. If over 50% of the field play the same deck, regardless of how good/bad it is you will see it consistently put up top 8's.

Moral of the story, there are plenty of competitive and viable decks in standard. It is a mistake to call Delver 'overrated'. Its a mistake to under estimate any top tier deck for that matter.

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