Quirion dryad s ability will trigger if you cast a spell thats green and at least one of the listed colors. If a virtual private party is more your thing, go here for details. Luckily for dryad fans, this format also offers up some other powerful incentives to play a spellbased deck. Quirion dryads ability will trigger only once per spell you cast, as long as that spell is at least one of the listed colors. Heres one example from a recent scg modern iq by cody shoemaker. Effect treasure cruise is banned in january of 2015, and the format largely returns to precruise decks the most recent of the major powerhouses, ur delver really exploited some of the parts of legacy most would prefer swept under the rug and not spoken about. Play sporcle s virtual live trivia to have fun, connect with people, and get your trivia on. Once those creatures are in place, hands of binding prevents the opponents creatures from blocking turn after turn. Smaller than goyf at first, which is bad if you are on the defensive. With the wizardsprovided flight and gen con badge i made my way to the venue, the indianapolis convention center, carrying along the following deckfor which my pet name is quirion my wayward son.
The power nine collective name for ancestral recall, time walk, timetwister, black lotus, and all five of the moxes, nine notoriously powerful cards from the very early days of the game milling a term for putting cards from an opponents library into their graveyard. Dryad was never menacing the turn it resolved, which sprite patches up with haste. If a good dryad deck untaps with a quirion dryad in play, it usually. Against delver, the spirits left behind can block their flyers for a while, and the monk herself is a bad. Join a live hosted trivia game for your favorite pub trivia experience done virtually. The veredict is that gyre sage will be added to the main pool. Snapcaster mage, delver of secrets, and now young pyromancer are all extremely powerful even more than the dryad, but that card has grown on me over the years. Round 3, i played against a very interesting simic delver deck that relied heavily on quirion dryad and a crapton of blue instants, growing the dryad with every spell played think searing spear targeting dryad, but think twice or simic charm in response to put it out of lethal range. The triggered ability rewards decks that cast cheap noncreature spells cantrips, removal, and counterspells all fit the bill. Delver into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. The modern version would have mutagenic growth to help protect the dryad as well as manamorphose to keep spell chains going. Deck canadian threshold aka rug delver, tempo thresh. Ancient doesnt allow new frameonly cards, but delver can be replaced by a different 1drop that sees some play in the current ur delver deck.
Cheaper run away threats like that and quirion dryad vinelasher kudzu. Similar decks over a decade ago that relied on growing creatures such as quirion dryad were known as grow in both extended and vintage. Deck canadian threshold aka rug delver, tempo thresh hi, in the older threat, there were people speaking about upcomming bom 9 very open meta with lot of bug and miracles expected, also as usual, combo decks. Well, it uses a delver of secrets engine alongside cards like quirion dryad to quickly create strong, repeatable sources of damage. Also, switching the counts of island and misty rainforest. Updated nov 30, 2012 by jzn using our mtg deck builder. People always remember that time they lost to a delver of secrets that flipped on turn 2. It used quirion dryad as another outlet for all of those instants. The simic combine page 3 riptide lab mtg cube draft. The reason quirion dryad was good was because it let you play other threats while also making your existing threat stronger, deeproot champion forces you to go allin on your single creature, and just accept that you cannot, under any circumstance, beat a resolved liliana of the veil. Famous magic the gathering deck names quiz by auhosj877.
Rug threshold also uses 4 werebear or quirion dryad instead of tarmogoyf, which was actually a staple of the threshold decks prior to the printing of goyf. Our general strategy is to resolve one of our growing creatures and proceed to counter our opponents spells and remove their creatures. Dragon brings a number of existing designs to the limit, combining quirion dryad and stormchaser mage into one pushed beatstick. Breaking into legacy super budget decks for less than. Quirion dryad s ability will trigger only once per spell you cast, as long as that spell is at least one of the listed colors. The point s being, a rug delver already has young pyromancer and. Because simic charm is a blue spell it will even make quirion dryad bigger when i cast it.
Goyf can come down at practically any time without really needing anything to synergize him into a viable. This is a secondary win condition in magic, because if a player cant draw a card when they are required to, either by. Both cards do play in completely different decks, but their similarities made me want to ab test em before settling on any of those for the main list. In short, learn what your local group plays, and gain value from this information. While delver facilitates quick tempo wins, it mainly fulfills a functional role in this archetype, permitting the pilot to reliably shift into a tempo role or race aggrobased strategies like merfolk. Stormchaser required multiple minicombo turns from its pilots to output damage consistently, a requirement relaxed by sprites. Lands 7 island 2 forest 4 hinterland harbor 4 breeding pool 17 cards. Phyrexian delver wood elves coat of arms erratic portal medicine bag memory crystal mindless automaton null brooch. If quirion dryad doesnt leave the board, i usually would win a matchup. Updated jan 24, 2019 by jaysifer using our mtg deck builder.
It harkens back to quirion dryad, and slots perfectly into one of my favorite archetypes. I wasnt prepared to face the deck game 1, but was able to lay the smack down in game 2, paving the way for. The five best legacy decks of alltime by adam barnello. I have been playing legacy and a casual group that pretty much plays legacy without the banlist for a while, and an old monster from extended that i have always liked is the ug tempocontrol deck miracle grow that. Instead, we plowed through the whole event on thursday. Besides those sixteen engine cards, the creator of this deck wisely chose to play only instants and sorceries. Each card is designed to have certain strengths and sometimes weaknesses and. I want to build a deck around quirion dryad, would that. Simic delver my first draft would be something like the ug delver deck that showed up a few times at the beginning of the std ptq season. The gathering is fueled by each players deck of cards, which constitute the resources that player can call upon to battle their opponents in any given game. Quirion dryad is the best threat that delver decks can present to nondelver opponents. Todays article is a post i made about m game day and a report of the nagoya metagame up.
Cause treasure cruise is printed in khans of tarkir, and as a result the entire format warps around it. With more than ten thousand unique cards in the game, a considerable number of different decks can be constructed. First off, lectryss advice is good, while werebear is a nice budget option, and can produce green, 99% of the time the faster clock tarmogoyf offers is much better. Brainstorming how to delve secrets all the way to dublin. A less competetive but no less fun quirion dryaddelver controlaggro. Magic tcg deck ug delver by preposterousmindgames 40. Its an instant for augur of bolas and delver of secrets, its blue and flashbackable for quirion dryad, and even has a conspicuously oncolor flashback cost. I added the dryad to the list to see how much it compared to a similar card that was in the test pool. This probably changes over time, but you can still learn a trend and have a plan of attack ready for whatever you may see. Delver is a firstperson action video game developed by by priority interrupt. I didnt know much about the deck that made quirion dryad so infamous, but i did learn its name. Let that sink in for a moment and then im going to tell you why.
Snapcaster mage, delver of secrets, and now young pyromancer are all. I was still pretty new to magic when m came out, but i remember when the reprint of quirion dryad was announced. So many insane plays a comprehensive guide to vintage delver. Everything else is about pumping and protecting the. Quirion dryad is the marquee card of the original deck, and newcomer deeproot champion provides us with enough redundancy to make this deck work. The plan is to hit you in the face with a vast quirion dryad. I hadnt heard of the card before, but i remember there being a buzz of excitement from veteran players. The points being, a rug delver already has young pyromancer and treasure cruise and thus wants to play a bunch of spells, and b quirion dryad was reprinted twice in coresets 10th and m and is thus legal in modern. If im lucky this could result in a huge blowout in combat, but most opponents will see something like that coming. Discussion in cube talk started by tzenmoroth, sep, 2015. Quirion dryad quirion explorer root greevil skyshroud blessing stone kavu thornscape battlemage.
This time around isnt any different, and ive spent the last few days just brewing different delver variations with quirion dryad. After some discussion and playtesting, a couple of things have shown up. First legacy event gu quiron dryad budget legacy legacy. This article was originally for scg but due to their busy summer schedule of opens, the world magic cup, and the release of return to ravnica, they were not able to put it on their website. Based on the rulings above posted last 7120112, its ability will also trigger if you cast a green spell, i dont get it because the card rule text says only white, blue, black or red.