Top 10 Best Delve Cards in MTG

Рет қаралды 32,601

Күн бұрын

Delve is a mechanic in Magic the Gathering that allows the caster to help pay for their spell by exiling cards from their graveyard. For each one card exiled, it reduces the cost of mana you actually have to pay by one. First appearing in Future Sight as a speculative future mechanic, Delve has only shown up in two full booster sets in Magic. This is partly because of delve being a quite powerful keyword which has multiple cards on multiple format banlists. It doesn’t take much setup to get a full enough graveyard to start casting delve spells for their minimum cost and start snowballing your advantage from there. So today we’ll be looking at Delve’s short but potent history as we go over the top ten delve cards in Magic the Gathering.
Script by Uncrowned Jules
Editing by Pumkinswift
├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Tasigur, the Golden Fang: (0:18)
9. Soulflayer: (1:52)
8. Temporal Trespass: (2:57)
7. Gurmag Angler: (4:54)
6. Become Immense: (6:26)
5. Ethereal Forager: (8:03)
4. Murktide Regent: (9:49)
3.Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis: (11:38)
2. Treasure Cruise: (13:19)
1. Dig Through Time: (15:07)
#mtg #tcg #magicthegathering
(Just a note, we have people who actually know the game very well making the scripts for this channel. As the owner of the channel (Theduellogs/hirumaredx) is a total newbie to the game.)

Пікірлер: 79

@TNTColonel Жыл бұрын

To truly let the power of Treasure Cruise (and to a lesser extent, Dig) speak for itself, here's a little tidbit of knowledge from the dark times it was legal in Modern: decks began to add Blue to themselves just to play them. Even **BURN**, of all things, was splashing Blue to use the card!

@Lucat_the_Nerd 4 ай бұрын

Based

@samorottheraccoon754 Жыл бұрын

This channel is growing so fast. Would like to see top 10 most hated cards in commander, or top 10 infect

@fernandobanda5734 Жыл бұрын

Are there even 10 good infect cards?

@fosterdawson7339 Жыл бұрын

@@fernandobanda5734 mmm true

@Tsaab13211 Жыл бұрын

The “I don’t negotiate with terrorists” cards will probably make it into the top 10 hated commanders card (ie. rhystic studies or smothering tithes)

@TheTundraTerror Жыл бұрын

Tol Acadamy already has a video dedicated to an entire deck made to piss off EDH players. But basically, it would be full of cards that are mass removal spells or tracking mechanics like day/night cycle.

@Ixidora Жыл бұрын

@@TheTundraTerror I laughed the entire way through that video, I'm proud of my ability to put on an ahole face with certain decks but that was just so obnoxious it became pure unadulterated comedy! Fantastic video that I recommend anyone who enjoys magic to watch!

@shinreimyu Жыл бұрын

Another advantage of angler is that it beats over Tass favorably and all the delve creatures avoid common kill spells like Fatal Push, Bolt, and Abrupt decay

@finnshelton3815 Жыл бұрын

The importance of fetchlands in getting cruise and dig banned can not be overstated. Turn 2-3 cruise/dig is waaaaay better than turn 4-6

@TransformersBoss Жыл бұрын

WOTC: Sultai, you get Delve Sultai: yay! WOTC: Jeskai, you get Prowess Jeskai: alright! WOTC: and Abzan, you get Outlast Abzan: oh. You got any more of the good ones?

@XmortoxX1990 Жыл бұрын

You forgot Abzan also got Siege Rhino

@conorwasson4727 Жыл бұрын

Abzan midrange was tier one in Khans standard. Trade offs lol

@ExtraVictory Жыл бұрын

@@conorwasson4727 do magic players really use the same terminology for deck status as us YGO players lol. That's kinda surprising, like does Tier zero still mean 65% of top performances at championship events?

@DarkDevero Жыл бұрын

Outlast was pretty underwhelming in hindsight but I really liked it, at least more than bolster because it's so limiting not being able to choose where my counters went

@Lucat_the_Nerd 4 ай бұрын

@@ExtraVictoryI’m pretty sure that terms like this are universal among competitive games.

@Alikaoz Жыл бұрын

On Angler, it's also a big creature playable through Elemental Blasts AND Snuff Out, that can make use of the graveyard through Gravedigger's Cage and it dodges Karakas, something Tasigur fails at. If you need to go Big Dumb Idiot Punch Face after game one, Gurmag Angler is one of the most solid options you have.

@williamdrum9899 Жыл бұрын

Also dodges Fatal Push.

@christopherb501 Жыл бұрын

Top 10 Influential Joke Designs Top 10 Worst Dragons Top 10 Uncommon Legendaries Top 10 Cards Depicting the Gatewatch (or Members) Top 10 Cards Belonging to a Ravnica Guild (besides shock duals) Top 10 Hardest Cards to Understand Top 10 Most Reprinted Cards (besides basic lands) Top 10 World Enchantments Top 10 Casual Formats Top 10 References to Outside IP (not Universes Beyond/D&D) Top 10 'Purge' Cards (search opponent's library to exile) Top 10 Weakest/Strongest Sets (For Their Time) Top 10 Designs Taken from Magic by Other TCGs Top 10 Ways MtG Dabbled with Having an Extra Deck Top 10 Sideboard Staples Top 10 Biggest Limited Bombs Top 10 Most Beloved Cards for Flavor Top 10 Joke Non-Acorn Cards Explaining Layers Explaining Copying Explaining Stickers Top 10 Cards with Mishra and/or Urza Top 10 Cards Most Often Power-Crept History of the "Legend Rule" Top 10 Most Player-Receptive Sets Top 10 Genres/Subgenres Not Used Top 10 Cards That Aren't Legendary, but Probably Should Be Top 10 Highest-Selling Secret Lairs Top 10 Languages/Regions Outside of American English MtG is Sold In Top 10 Tribal Support Creatures Not of Said Tribe Top 10 Premier-Set Cards that Became Eternal Powerhouses Upon Release

@OberynTheRedViper Жыл бұрын

Top 10 ways I mispronounce easily pronounceable words, thereby showing contempt for my audience by doing less than the bare minimum.

@darianleyer5777 Жыл бұрын

I suspect that Arabian Nights is the most blatant of all references to external IP other than D&D and Universes Beyond. For one, some of its cards contain such references. Example: The card Piety has an excerpt from the Qur'an as its flavor text. For another, the very theme of the set, including the plane of Rabiah, is a reference.

@christopherb501 Жыл бұрын

@@darianleyer5777 I was thinking more like Grave Bramble or Sorcerer's Broom.

@darianleyer5777 Жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 I guessed that you were not referring to whole expansions.

@damsaucy Жыл бұрын

@@OberynTheRedViper top 10 ways i get mad at random people on the internet for stupid shit like linguistic skill

@TheL0rd0fSpace Жыл бұрын

Part of the reason Angler is so good in Pauper is also because its stats, color, and even creature typing help it dodge some of the most common best removal, and most beaters are 4/4, so it doesn't trade to them in combat.

@ThePhysicalReaction Жыл бұрын

I love Hogaak. Really creative design. Also crazy powerful.

@TheRedGauntlet Жыл бұрын

ehhhh. Felt like it underseled Gurmag Angler in other formats. I'm sure it saw plenty of play in modern and legacy, more than Tasigur, simply because is bigger than Tasigur and doesn't get hosed by Karakas.

@leftysheppey Жыл бұрын

Gurmag saw tons of play in modern, but jund was so good pre-deaths shadow with tasigur. It had a really high skill ceiling, too. Even eating your own Graveyard with scooze. I miss those days of modern

@ethanhopper2467 Жыл бұрын

Angler is a 4 turn clock, Tasigur is a 5 turn clock. That alone made it the threat of choice for Death's Shadow decks pretty much consistently until Lurrus came out.

@krullachief669 Жыл бұрын

Ain't Angler also legal in Pauper, meaning that you can also have a good ol big bungus that's actually reasonable to cast should you have a need for it in a format whose entire purpose is to make decks with the cheapo cards?

@imGrisky Жыл бұрын

Gurmag couldnt be blocked by tasigur which was huge.

@cream3148 Жыл бұрын

As far as I’ve seen, ethereal forager disappeared from legacy for murktide to take it’s place.

@corey2232 Жыл бұрын

iirc, wasn't Dig Through Time banned a bit later in Legacy than Treasure Cruise was? I used to play a lot of Legacy back in the day, and I seem to remember Dig got a little bit more time to see play than Cruise did.

@ZakanaHachihaCBC Жыл бұрын

It was, way later. Cruse took hits in all three non rotating formats while Dig was banned in only Modern in January 2015. Then with the 2015 fall release Dig was hit in Legacy and Vintage.

@corey2232 Жыл бұрын

@@ZakanaHachihaCBC Ah ok! Thanks for the info. 2015 was right around the last time I was playing paper MTG, and Legacy was my main focus. I remembered being able to use Dig for a while, even though Cruise was banned pretty quick.

@ed8054 Жыл бұрын

Love the vid, only thing id note is that grindy decks are definitely not the pauper meta anymore. Red aggro is absolutely dominating the format right now.

@OrionGuided Жыл бұрын

Temporal Trespass is going to go so well in my Emry deck. Thanks 😁

@jsum33 Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry I didn't realize until now I've been enjoying your channel for months without subbing.

@7Alberto7 Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@zahwaurdo4800 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps you could do the best cards and/or decks in Pauper? That's my favorite MTG format of all time

@jaydub5515 Жыл бұрын

Good video, man! I just love your shit!

@jackelope6134 Жыл бұрын

I'd say treasure cruise is a little better than dig, got banned way faster in legacy which I'd argue represents it's power more. Still very close though, it's almost impossible to separate the two. Also tombstalker could have been a fun mention, though it never saw all that much play. I feel like people didn't realize how good delve was until we got to Khans of tarkir and that's how it never saw play like tasigoyf and angler did. Great vid! I love the delve mechanic

@Metallicity Жыл бұрын

Cruise isn't stronger than Dig, just more splashable. If you're a 3+ color deck in a format where both cards are legal, you'd probably lean towards Dig due to the single blue pip, unless you're a deck that really cares about drawing the right cards or is very heavy into blue to the point where UU isn't an issue. Meanwhile in Vintage, where practically every deck running blue at all is centered on blue in the manabase, Cruise gets cut before Dig almost every time.

@jackelope6134 Жыл бұрын

I mean like I said it's basically impossible to tell the two. In my opinion, Cruise being more splashable, cheaper, and getting an extra card contributes to it being more powerful in a vacuum. But dig is better in decks that don't need to worry as much about those factors, as you said. I'd play dig in control or combo decks like show and tell or doomsday, but I'd play cruise in delver or storm

@darianleyer5777 Жыл бұрын

Got an idea. Top Ten Internally Banned Cards. This means the top ten cards that would have been on the number one spot of an earlier list, but you put them on a list of cards to exclude from your lists. Example of such a card: Red Elemental Blast and Pyroblast.

@darianleyer5777 Жыл бұрын

Another Idea, specifically for the Arabian Nights expansion: Top Ten cards in Arabian Nights that DON'T reference external IP in some way (excluding the name of the set itself).

@dom2056 Жыл бұрын

dig through time is better in almost every way to treasure cruise, but being 1 blue mana meant that almost every modern deck could splash blue for cruise

@Meddling_Mage Жыл бұрын

a top 10 affinity cards would be fantastic! does anyone think cards with non-keyworded affinity, like brine giant (which i dont think was very strong) or tolarian terror if you want to stretch it, would have a place in the list?

@thatoneguy2969 Жыл бұрын

Could you a top 10 key words list like the one you did for hearthstone

@OHYisWatching Жыл бұрын

Top 10 awesome names

@hagenlala6409 Жыл бұрын

Gurmag Angler was played in some Legacy (delver I think) decks for a while.

@18Zeke Жыл бұрын

I’d like to see top 10 X spells

@snerdbrgrSkips Жыл бұрын

Yuriko uses Temporal trespass as it deals 11 damage to all opponents if it hit and a chance to do an extra turn to close out the game

@enmanuelperez7564 Жыл бұрын

Gud stuff

@ChrisMortJr. Жыл бұрын

I use temporal trespass with omnispell adept in my mizzet deck and that's pretty funny

@Virgil_Vincent Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you picked the angler over tomb stalker

@oliverbehrer5252 Жыл бұрын

im not suprised that blue cards are the most op cards

@eltronjohn Жыл бұрын

Dig through time doesn’t DRAW per se as well, but rather PUTS cards in hand - important to go around draw restrictions and taxes.

@bluedestiny2710 Жыл бұрын

Tombstalker should have been given an honorable mention: It was THE first card with Delve and was printed in Future Sight if I remember correctly as a Time Shifted Card. I saw this be used by some Dredge decks alongside Ichorid... Ichorid eats the black creatures, and Tombstalker eats anything else that isnt with regards to Soulflayer, how does that card interact with creatures that could gain those keyword effects instead of actually having them? For example: there is an old card from Legends called Gabriel Angelfire, which gains one of the 4 keyword abilities until your next turn: Flying, First Strike, Trample or Rampage: 2. If a Soulflayer eats one of those, does it gain the 3 keyword abilities, or no luck because it can GAIN those 3 but doesnt naturally have it?

@modenoatr Жыл бұрын

Soulflayer wouldn't get anything from Gabriel, indeed.

@fernandobanda5734 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't get the ability unless the card has the exact keyword. Any variation like "This creature has first strike while it's attacking" does not count.

@CrimsonXenoProduct Жыл бұрын

the only take away from this I have is that tasigur is probably the best way to delve in commander

@Mad.Edd.702 Жыл бұрын

Are you ever going to play mtg arena?

@setin1956 Жыл бұрын

Top 10 Cards that Result in Your Opponent Scooping when???

@tyroy30 Жыл бұрын

As good as the vids are does no one spell check any of the text?

@TheRedGauntlet Жыл бұрын

Delve really is a busted mechanic lol

@calebcrook5875 Жыл бұрын

where's grave troll my g?

@kennydarmawan13 Жыл бұрын

Hope to see Top 10 Mechanics that Yu-Gi-Oh! did that MtG does better.

@MRJazzygameplay27 Жыл бұрын

"Pauper being a slow and grindy format" How to spot the person that doesn't play pauper.

@WordoftheElderGods Жыл бұрын

Monder

@fredericogoncalves1771 Жыл бұрын

Cruise is better than dig, change my mind

@finnshelton3815 Жыл бұрын

In pioneer? Sure, but it wasn't too long ago that inverter was everywhere and abusing the crap out of it and in older formats where it often just wins the game if you cast it, dig is better. The higher the power of your format the better card selection is, as it can often only take one card to decide a game.

@pedropaulofaria6126 Жыл бұрын

C'mom duelogs, tasigur as the last one, hes arguably the mot powerful wtf?

@VieneLea Жыл бұрын

How is delve that strong when you need to fill the graveyard first? Seems pretty situational, and pretty problematic, considering many delve cards draw the resource fromt he same pool. I mean sure, older formats might have more cards to do it, but they also have more traditionally strong cards, so what exactly makes this card an 8 on the storm scale?

@cartergreen2309 Жыл бұрын

Good delve cards are all far too powerful for their cost if you delve them and you're also forgetting that cards going to the graveyard happens naturally anyway. That's the main problem. You get tons of value for doing nothing different anyway most of the time.

@ZakanaHachihaCBC Жыл бұрын

Cut over Soulflayer. Cut saw competitive play while Soulflayer decks are memes. It’s a good card but a card that saw consistant play across many strategies is better then a fringe card in a meme deck.