Since Delver Blade is still the best deck in the current metagame of Standard, I’ve decided to explore and take another approach on the list. The popular list is Blue White based so I check on the other color opposing these two, which is Red. I like to idea of dealing early damage with an equipped Invisible Stalker & finishing it off with burn.

Here is what I had in mind:

Lands
2 Inkmoth Nexus
8 Island
5 Mountain
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shimmering Grotto
4 Sulfur Falls

Creatures
2 Grim Lavamancer
2 Trinket Mage
4 Invisible Stalker
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of Secrets

Spells
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Ponder
4 Vapor Snag
1 Silver-Inlaid Dagger
1 Runechanter’s Pike
1 Avacyn’s Collar
2 Sword of War and Peace
4 Incinerate
4 Mana Leak

What’s new? Here are some explanations on card choices.

Trinket Mage, Silver-Inlaid Dagger & Avacyn’s Collar – this package mainly utilize a pseudo equipment tool box for the deck. The dagger gets most efficient with all of the creatures in the deck which is Humans. The collar is somewhat a Moorland Haunt effect, which also benefits the Humans creature type.

Grim Lavamancer – provide additional burn damage support. Also benefits the dagger.

Incinerate – Red’s current efficient burn spell. I’d wish Lightning Bolt is still legal though.

Inkmoth Nexus – In cases you ran out of critters to equip for your Swords, Dagger, Pike, whatever. It’s not in accordance but Poison kill can win games at times.

Take note that this is still an untested list so you might want to cut a few burn or bounce spells to add critters, Phoenixes maybe.

Until next post! 😀