Burning Wish Delver

[Cunningbeaver]

I opted for this list for champs for a solid 7-2. Beating Dredge, Shops twice, 4-1 vs other delver decks (losing to Ryan Eberhart), and losing a close 3 game series to a grixis control list that boarded into Oath (letting him resolve tinker in game 1 with force/blue card dack fayden in my hand turned out to be a bad choice after he got Inkwell Leviathan).
Overall the deck was really strong. I won multiple "mirror" games after they had been way ahead in cards/board presence (pyromancers + tokens) due to being able to chain spells and burning wish for a grapeshot.
Being able to kill multiple creatures and hit for damage while generating my own tokens was spectacular.

Dack Fayden was probably my weakest card over the day and might be better suited as a third dig.

Creatures (11)
3 Deathrite Shaman   
4 Delver of Secrets   
4 Young Pyromancer   

Spells (35)
1 Black Lotus   
1 Mox Jet   
1 Mox Ruby   
1 Mox Sapphire   
1 Ancestral Recall   
1 Brainstorm   
1 Ponder   
3 Gitaxian Probe   
3 Mental Misstep   
3 Preordain   
4 Lightning Bolt   
1 Ancient Grudge   
3 Burning Wish   
1 Dack Fayden   
4 Force of Will   
4 Gush   
2 Dig Through Time   

Lands (14)
2 Tropical Island   
2 Underground Sea   
3 Scalding Tarn   
3 Volcanic Island   
4 Polluted Delta

Sideboard

Time Walk
Treasure Cruise
Grapeshot
Shattering Spree
2 Pyroblast
3 Grafdiggers Cage
3 Ravenous Trap
3 Ingot Chewer

[TheBrassMan]

I moved this post into its own thread to comment on it - it seemed different enough from standard UR Delver to warrant discussion (apologies to Cunningbeaver if this was unwanted)

I played this list, with very minor modifications, to a 3-1 in a vintage daily last weekend. The only changes I made to Cunningbeaver's list were +1 Sudden Shock maindeck and +2 Sulfur Elemental in the sideboard, a concession to the fact that Cunningbeaver made that list before Mentor was a thing.

I liked Deathrite Shaman all over, it felt like a natural fit in the deck, though it does make the already shaky manabase even shakier. I don't think that cost me any games, but it easily could have.

Burning Wish was solid, but not mind blowing. It didn't give me any help in the scary Oath/Dredge matchups, and sometimes Wish->Cruise or Wish->Walk were too slow when a natural Cruise/Walk wouldn't have been ... but that's not an entirely fair comparison. In the games where I hoped the Burning Wish was a Time Walk, there would have been a 2/3rds chance it wasn't, if I wasn't running Wishes at all. Most of the time the Wishes weren't too mana intensive, anyway.

I'm sure Grapeshot is not correct, though it was relevant in my games ... it was just too fun not to run. In a deck with so little mana development, you don't have the same options with Wish that other decks do ... but Time Walk and Cruise are good enough for most circumstances.

Edit:
Here are some highlights from the daily if anyone wants to see the deck in action!:

Burning Delver vs 4c Mentor
Burning Delver vs Forgemaster Stax

[nedleeds]

There aren't many exciting wish targets in u/r vs. Dredge or Oath. Splashing white gets you beaucoup options. I think I'd want a burn spell to wish for if you stay on the wishes. Sounds terrible but there are times you just need Slice and Dice, or Sudden Demise, or Rolling Earthquake ...