I went 2-1-0 with blue delver in a tournament in one of my city’s bar. We were 22 players, which was a bigger tournout than expected, and a nice surprise 🥳 Decklist is here.

ROUND 1 : mono white hare apparent, 2-1 My oppo was playing a brew, 20 hares 20 lands and an assortement of blink spells, mass pump spells, thraben charms and Leonardos. The one loss was from the match where I could not counter the first rabbit, which means I could not stop the deck from snowballing. Also I got my delver mana tithe’d on turn 1, and it hurt 🥲

ROUND 2 : blue white familiar, 2-0 Oppo was playing the foil version of the deck, and it seems like it was too slow against my deck. I got two flipped delvers with dispel backup on turn 3 in the second round, and that was enough pressure to just play counterspells until I won.

ROUND 3 : mono red madness, 1-2 This one was against a friend that I introduced to the game a few years ago, we were both 2-0, the stakes could not have been higher 😁 I lost the pre side match, then won the second one, and lost the third. I think my mistake was blasting the wrong spell, on turn 4 I had a serpent on board, oppo had only two lands, I blasted their plotted highway robbery to keep them from finding a third land, but then they blasted my serpent and I could not find any other threat 😵 I probably sideboarded wrong too, the mystics I brought in felt too slow for the matchup.

It was a great night, I am glad that there is an active pauper community in my city 🥳