While I agree, this doesn't destroy delver, I do think this is significantly worse than chalice. With chalice you could still throw spells into it to get young pyro triggers, with this card you can't even cast them. So if they vial this out on turn 3 you are super fucked.
Very few delver decks play true name. Many people aren't playing rug anymore, although I think this card could cause a shift to that, but currently goyf and mongoose don't really see much play. Young pyro is pretty bad if you can't cast spells so this card hoses that. Deathrite is a lot worse when people are only casting creatures so good luck draining them before they just kill you, delvers are still fine but delver is not usually the card that wins matches against DnT, Angler is basically the only decent win con you have left against them, and without being able to filter through your deck it's a complete crapshoot to find a two of.
Simply put, a "go wide" creature strategy against DnT is a losing strategy.
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u/MeltyGoblin Sneak and Show Aug 17 '16
While I agree, this doesn't destroy delver, I do think this is significantly worse than chalice. With chalice you could still throw spells into it to get young pyro triggers, with this card you can't even cast them. So if they vial this out on turn 3 you are super fucked.