Delney, Streetwise Lookout - 2W

Legendary Creature - Human Scout (Mythic)

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can’t be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

“It’s not a matter of what I know. It’s a matter of making it worth my while to tell you.”

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  • Evu@mtgzone.comEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I will be building a deck with this. As a starting point I’ll use it to replace Roaming Throne in this list. But not being restricted to Humans will open up a lot of other replacement possibilities.

    • Evu@mtgzone.comEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Just thinking out loud here, this list needs to be trimmed by about half but I think we want some combination of these creatures:

      • Crawling Chorus
      • Greedy Freebooter
      • Lunarch Veteran
      • Market Gnome
      • Doomed Dissenter
      • Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
      • Fleshtaker
      • Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
      • Mindleech Ghoul
      • Norn’s Inquisitor
      • Delney, Streetwise Lookout
      • Werefox Bodyguard
      • Preacher of the Schism
      • Sanguine Evangelist

      And Loran of the Third Path in the sideboard. We’ll keep Rite of Oblivion for removal and Corrupted Conviction as a cheap card-drawing sacrifice outlet. Nothing here costs more than 3 mana so maybe we can get away with about 22 lands.

      It’s tricky because there are a lot of good creatures with triggered abilities that give them +1/+1 counters, but once you do that you immediately shut off the synergy with Delney.

      I also really want to figure out how to break [[Circuit Mender]], and Delney might help with that, but I don’t know if this is the deck for it.

      • Evu@mtgzone.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Okay, maybe something like this for the Circuit Mender deck:

        2 Miner’s Guidewing
        4 Spyglass Siren
        4 Thousand-Faced Shadow
        3 Faerie Mastermind
        4 Moon-Circuit Hacker
        4 Suspicious Stowaway
        2 Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
        3 Circuit Mender
        4 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
        3 Loran’s Escape
        4 Get Lost
        23 lands

        Not sure this is enough interaction though. I don’t feel like we have a great plan for if the opponent plays Sheoldred, as Standard opponents are wont to do.

  • Firestorm DruidEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Assuming this doubles the ETB trigger of [[Mentor of the Meek]], do I have to pay the 1 twice?

    • Evu@mtgzone.comEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Yes. Delney will double Mentor’s trigger as long as the Mentor’s power doesn’t get above 2 (the fact that the other creatures entering also have to have power <= 2 matters to Mentor but doesn’t directly matter to Delney).

      When each trigger resolves, you will separately decide whether to pay 1 to draw a card. The upshot is that you can pay 0 to draw 0, pay 1 to draw 1, or pay 2 to draw 2.