Obviously, Delver of Secrets is a rather worthless card unless it transforms into Insectile Aberration.
The reason it was reliable back in M12 Standard was because Ponder could increase the odds of Delver flipping from roughly 40% to near certainty. Adding Gitaxian Probe and Thought Scour, while unable to stack the top of the library, increased the odd of having both Delver and Ponder to work with in the early game. Lastly, Mana Leak and Vapor Snag could control most of the metagame with Snapcaster Mage extending the reach of the deck.
Would a similar (Delver based) strategy work in Modern? Perhaps, but since the closest thing to Ponder is Serum Visions, and the metagame is more diverse, blue's go-to one-drop just isn't what it used to be.
Posted By:
Tempted_Johnny
(10/27/2013 9:41:12 PM)
I kind of wish they had found a way to use the letters M and S in the name, so that the card in its entirety would be MS-DOS.
But hey, 3/2 flier for {U}, you can't have everything. :)
Posted By:
Salient
(4/7/2014 4:50:31 PM)