UR Pyro Cruise

[MoonDark]

Hey guys,

I listened Steven's Menendian podcast, episode 30. In it, he mentions thinking that UR delver with Treasure Cruise will play better in a different shell than his usual UR -role flexible- list.

I've been tinkering with the cards, and testing this weekend and here's what I got. I would really like some feedback on this list, btw, I think this discussion deserves it's own topic so we don't pollute Steve's UR Delver topic.

Creatures:

2x Jeskai Elder
4x Young Pyromancer
4x Delver

Spells:

4x Force of Will
4x Gitaxian Probe
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Preordain
2x Spell Pierce
3x Mental Misstep
4x Treasure Cruise
1x Brainstorm
1x Ponder
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Time Walk

Artifacts

1 Lotus
1 Sapphire
1 Ruby

Lands

3 Wasteland
1 Stripmine
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Delta
4 Volcanic
3 Island


I think my mana base could be a bit off. This deck plays a more 'aggro-disruptive' strategy, every wasteland also builds towards cruise. The Jeskai Elder is still a -maybe- for me, I like that it pitches to FoW and drawing a card in Vintage could mean winning a game... the problem is that on turn 2 you often want to be casting the Pyromancer, and Elder could be a bit too slow for a format like Vintage. 

Cards that I would like to test are Monastery Swiftspear and perhaps Dig Through Time (though I don't really see DTT being good in this list).

Would love feedback on the list, manabase, the 'plan' etc.

Cheers,

[dragzz]

I would much rather have snapcaster mage in the jeskai elder slot. Yes it does compete with treasure cruise, but in my testing, more often than not, you can spare that one card you want to snap-back from delve.
Also I would run 4 misstep instead of 4 probes. Rich Shay's list on the TMD MTGOOpen 3 pyroblast main deck which I would seriously consider in a blue infested meta,then you basically dedicate your entire board to hate out shops and dredge.

How's your SB looking?

[MoonDark]

Hey there, I thought about snapcaster. I'll test him after Monastery Swiftspear, I'm not convinced by the elder... tried running 3, 2 and don't really like him at all.

Will give 4 Missteps a shot and 3 probes. Don't really know how to fit the 3 Pyroblast MD, would love to try that.

My SB is pretty standard for now:

4 Cages
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Pyroblast
1 Mountain

[serracollector]

I would remove the two jeskai and one bolt for one snap and two pyroblast. Then you can change just sb the fourth bolt in place of one of the pyroblast.