Treasure Cruise is taking over Modern, but surely there are other ways to use the card than in a Delver of Secrets shell. Popular Magic streamer Bahra has
been using Treasure Cruise in a more controlling shell, and it’s one that appears to have a pretty good U/R Delver and Burn matchup.
Obstinate Baloth and Courser of Kruphix might seem a little slow, but there’s a lot of removal to buy time to get you there. Additionally, Obstinate Baloth
is basically a maindeck hate card against Liliana of the Veil, presumably one of the deck’s weaknesses. Jund may have been the format’s premier midrange
deck, but Bahra’s looks like it’s not only better against the field as a whole, but with Treasure Cruise, it likely dominates the pseudo-mirror as well.
Red removal is quite good right now, as is Treasure Cruise and lifegain, and Bahra found a way to tie all of it together into a neat little shell. If
you’re looking for a fun, powerful, metagame hating deck for Modern, you could certainly do worse than this proven archetype.
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