Nice art, nice flavor, nice mechanic. But 5 extra is a bit much 3 and it'd be good. As is it misses goyf and KotR.
On another note, I'm extremely disappointed we won't be seeing delve in innistrad. Yes it eats your graveyard and makes it difficult to run w/ other graveyard based mechanics that use the graveyard as a Resource. Gravestorm would've gone perfectly with delve. And most mechanics that share a resource won't go well together, so innistrad might as well be the 'flashback' based set. Not everyone will want to run flashback, delve, retrace, or whatever. That's why you need multiple grave based effects or it'll just be too narrow.
Posted By:
BlackAlbino
(9/12/2011 10:03:10 PM)
Hang on a sec. The three Delve cards (Tombstalker, Logic Knot, Death Rattle) are all in {U}/{B}. Innistrad has demonstrated {U}/{B} self-mill decks. Could we be seeing Delve as a later block mechanic designed to fit well for those decks? It would allow self-mill to make use of milled land by throwing it out to cast Tombstalkers...
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(12/20/2011 4:33:21 PM)
I can't wait to see Delve as a set mechanic. Maybe they'll pair it with Gravestorm (Bitter Ordeal).
Posted By:
Etregan
(3/16/2010 3:53:07 AM)
Black needs creature-kill that can kill black creatures. Death Rattle is great for this, with 'target can't be regenerated', able to kill artifact creatures, an instant, and potentially costing B. Not being able to hit green critters isn't much of a weakness, as black has anti-green creature-kill as part of it's standard set of hosers, and it looks like this will be set at a cost of B (Deathmark) for at least the next few years.
And Delve is a great mechanic, which should be brought back and explored in more depth.
Posted By:
A3Kitsune
(1/25/2010 7:24:15 PM)
Destroy target....nongreen creature?
Posted By:
Gomorrah
(8/2/2010 11:17:42 AM)
The flavor and mechanic are so cool. I wish the card was better.
Posted By:
metalevolence
(3/14/2011 3:41:46 PM)
this card isnt that bad? mid-late kill for B? i guess it prolly did bad cuz it couldnt kill tarmogoyf, but meh tombstalker wasnt bad either
Posted By:
Omenchild
(12/23/2009 3:08:32 PM)
can't kill goyf or knight of the reliquary. i don't like it...
Posted By:
OverfiendSurprise
(7/20/2010 12:18:28 AM)
I don't like delve but I like some of the cards printed with delve.
They could improve upon the mechanic by adding more to it, make this into Delve 1 and a Delve 3 card would be 3 cheaper by removing 1 card...
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(3/10/2011 1:30:42 PM)
I hope we never see Delve, personally. And the non-green is a nice tie in to Lorwyn's elves.
Posted By:
Designer_Genes
(10/26/2009 10:36:04 AM)