I love how the French version of the card says "Retard" at the top. Because the dude in the art couldn't compliment that title any more than he already does.
Posted By:
StreamHopper
(11/18/2010 10:22:09 AM)
Extremely underestimated counterspell. I use this as hard counter for U in my bant control deck featuring Grand Arbiter Augustin iv and teferi, mage of zhalfir. Worse case scenario it gives you time to develop and build up card advantage/board postion, or in the late game it might as well be a hard counter since there shouldn't be 3 more turns for your enemy.Also it makes other counterspells and combat tricks essentially hard countered. Lastly i have to mention that these days with cards like Harrow being rampant (no pun intended), it brings a smile on my face to delay their harrow and watch them sac a land and set themselves back instead of accelerating! By the time the delay counters are gone if they want to play harrow they have to sac AGAIN, which u can once again delay/cryptic, setting them back significantly in their land/board development, and preventing their fatties from even dreaming about hitting the battlefield.... (see all)
Posted By:
SlickDragon
(4/27/2010 5:03:43 PM)
The idea of Delay on a stick appeals to the troll in me. Counterspell is almost always a better choice for that, of course, but imagine your opponent's face as they see their best spells exiled over and over, and the rest of their spells resolving many turns after they were most needed. Warms me cruel, cruel heart, it does.
Posted By:
Cubozoan
(6/30/2012 9:05:22 AM)
Its the same principle as remand, its more to slow there tempo then to deal with the spell. But what hurts this spell, in 3 turns they dont have to pay the mana cost. With remand they have to repay it, and you get to cantrip.
Remand is way stronger.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(12/22/2012 3:15:12 AM)
The French version of this card is much funnier.
Posted By:
BreakfastElemental
(12/19/2013 4:49:36 PM)
Step one: blast their spell with this cheesy counter.
Step two: blast them with Isochron Scepter plus Orim's Chant.
Step three: ???
Step four: Profit!!
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(2/28/2012 8:21:18 AM)
Neat usage: You can suspend, say, your Aeon Chronicler for 1 or 2, then Delay it when it resolves. Compared to Ancestral Vision, it costs {1} more and gives you three cards over three turns instead of three on the fourth turn (plus with a timebug you can drop it at instant speed on your opponent's end step).
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(7/26/2012 2:27:05 PM)
The most important difference between this and Ertai's Meddling is that Delay has to be able to counter the spell. Ertai's meddling does not, and it can suspend an uncounterable spell until it might be useless... it just has to not be countered itself.
Posted By:
DeadLeeCoC
(7/24/2013 9:50:03 PM)
It's also good for delaying a kill spell. There are better counterspells for the types of decks that like this I think, but this is good enough.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(8/1/2013 10:04:52 AM)
Works well with Nix.
Posted By:
use644
(8/26/2013 10:52:56 AM)