Magic: the Gathering Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is already out and ready to play in Standard and other older formats. I’ll be expecting our local game store to have these products from the set arriving maybe by the end of September or October first week. Anywho, I posted several deck techs with the new cards, and for today, we revisit the deck that stars the iconic creature of Innistrad: Delver of Secrets.

The reprinting of this card and making it legal in Standard once again rose its deck archetype of Blue-Red (Izzet) tempo, counterspells, and cheap burn to easily pick off opponents. Its partner, Thermo-Alchemist from Eldrich Moon, reunited with the reprinting in this set.

Standard Izzet Delver Snow
Maindeck
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Magmatic Channeler
4 Thermo-Alchemist
3 Poppet Stitcher
1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

4 Consider
4 Expressive Iteration
4 Saw It Coming
4 Frost Bite
4 Play with Fire
2 Behold the Multiverse

2 Faceless Haven
4 Riverglide Pathway
9 Snow-Covered Island
7 Snow-Covered Mountain

Creature Choices

Aside from the Delver and Alchemist, Magmatic Channeler is your third creature included as a playset because of its ability to cast extra cards from the top of your library while also filling your graveyard. In addition, it becomes a 4/4 in the late game which also acts as a decent damager.

Another creature considered in the list is Poppet Stitcher. It is sort of a bigger version of Young Pyromancer being also a token producer but leans to be more aggressive because of the 2/2 Zombie tokens that get bigger when the card flips to Poppet Factory.

Instants and Sorceries

The list of spells (twenty-two spells in total) included here is at the average of one-mana cost, with a combination of burn spells, card draw, and a playset of Saw It Coming for countering relevant spells the opponent might cast. Play with Fire, an upgraded version of Shock, has a Scry 1 ability that helps flip your Delver as early as turn two. The same scenario with Consider, as looking at the top card before the Delver flip trigger resolves.

Conclusion

I have checked some reference decklist while building this decklist and comparing all of them, I found it more favorable to have Snowlands instead of the traditional basic lands because of two cards that gain the advantage of it: Frost Bite and Faceless Haven.

You might have a version for Izzet Delver that will be more advantageous to play with than the current Snow version so feel free to share them on the comment box below. Your inputs are highly appreciated.

That is a wrap for now, until the next blog post.