I don t want to get into primary source vs.
The source rug delver.
Rug tempo tempo thresh on the source the newest and older rug delver threads on the source both of these have excellent history sections in their opening posts and have information from people with a lot more credibility than me.
Canadian threshold rug delver.
6 of those tap for colored mana.
In the inaugural post of this blog i thought i d go through some of the deck s more common match ups.
Team america bug delver.
Punishing fire is a recurring source of direct damage that is very unprofitable to counter.
Loam is perhaps one of the best wasteland decks in the format and it can use this format defining land to utterly take over games against delver.
Rug delver is as i ve stated before the premiere delver deck of the format right now.
A lot of information here will be derived from information there but with new.
Do any rug delver players play a maindeck magmatic sinkhole.
Canadian threshold aka rug delver tempo thresh on the source canadian thresh a k a.
Pt born of the gods runner up jacob wilson brings you a special version of rug delver with pt champion alexander hayne.
For reference here s a link to my primer on the source.
Deck canadian threshold aka rug delver tempo thresh trample is a huge reason why and immunity to abrupt decay is an added bonus.
I guess now you can oko elk bolt but that s a lot of mana to invest into killing a goyf.
Yeah the inability to just deal with a big vanilla creature has always been the achilles heel of rug delver.
That plan works well against midrange and control decks that are slower than us and actively seek to kill our threats but it is subpar against aggro ramp and combo.
This means our primary game plan is to stick a threat and keep it alive until it closes out the game.
Team america or bug delver might be a stronger deck in some match ups and patriot uwr delver has a better long game than rug in some cases but overall no other delver deck can match rug in terms of consistency and above all abusing delver of secrets.
Rug delver is a tempo deck.
An aggro control deck based around hand distruption delver of secrets and deathrite shaman.
Full deck details including strategies lists and the like can be found over at the source.
This is part one of a series of articles dealing with my favorite deck of all time rug delver.
Most of the time comes down for 1 mana it s simply the more efficient resilient and evasive threat.
