thanks for tuning in to the boston world channel liking the video and subscribing the channel are free and easy for you and they help me out a lot if you want to go further with your support patreon and youtube membership offer access to the boston royal discord community early access to lists written content things like that you can have me play your deck on the channel and the highest tiers come with individual coaching sessions if you use youtube membership you also get sweet badges and emotes integrated here into youtube you can support the channel while you shop at URL_TOKEN by using my affiliate link in the video description and you can play any deck anytime by using a URL_TOKEN loan account on magiconline if you want to wear your support check out the merch store and of course thanks for being here now let's go play some magic welcome back to the boston roll channel today at the request of patreon subscribers sam i am playing legacy phoenix delver what we got here is a grix's delver core delver of secrets lots of spells days force will lightning bolt cantrips you know the thing but it's also got a little dark ritual buried alive arclight phoenix action grix's phoenix is a pretty known quantity and legacy it's kind of a fringe deck you can play delver obviously well-known best deck and legacy basically at all times and this deck is smooshing them together the plan is to pressure them with delver disrupt them with discard and then when the coast is clear dark ritual into buried alive and get a bunch of phoenixes into play that said i think there is some structural issues with the list that has been sent to me one of them is that this list has no way on turn one to make arclight phoenix's unless your opponent decides to interact with you like the dedicated phoenix decks have free spells like land grant gut shot somewhat free spells like manamorphos they have lotus pedals so you can pull ahead and sneak an extra ritual in you need to get to three spells because dark ritual for buried alive is only two and unless your opponent tries to interact with you and you get to cast a daze or a force of will there's no free spell to make that happen on turn one which is fine if this is sort of a turn two turn three like uh thought sees you and then dark ritual buried alive kind of plan that's fine but i think that the deck can be rebuilt to support that better while also improving its delver shell let's look at my rebuild of the deck here's where i took it same plan most of the same cards we still have the the same arclight phoenix still delver we still have verita live most of that stuff is intact what i've done here is gone a little lighter on thoughtsies a little lighter on dark ritual and a little lighter on buried alive if you don't if you're not turn running anyway then you can slow it down and just play fewer of these cards because they're pretty bad on their own and if you're not going quickly then you don't want to you want them when you're ready for them not just coming up your opening hand this is a delver deck after
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