There are cheaper and more efficient spells to protect your board than Make a Stand, but this also gives your team just a little bit more punch
Bant Delirium | Shadows Over Innistrad Standard | Roman Fusco Creatures (16) 1 Bruna, the Fading Light 1 Gisela, the Broken Blade 1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow 1 Linvala, the Preserver 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 3 Tireless Tracker 4 Primal Druid 4 Thraben Inspector Instants (4) 1 Immolating Glare 3 Dissenter's Deliverance Sorceries (14) 1 Descend upon the Sinful 2 Nissa's Renewal 3 Fumigate 4 Spring // Mind 4 Traverse the Ulvenwald Enchantments (5) 1 Quarantine Field 4 Cast Out Lands (21) 6 Forest 2 Island 3 Plains 1 Irrigated Farmland 1 Lumbering Falls 2 Evolving Wilds 2 Scattered Groves 4 Fortified Village Sideboard (9) 3 Negate 1 Essence Scatter 2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar 2 Declaration in Stone 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk By hitting Delirium with creatures that acted mainly as chump blockers (Thraben Inspector and Primal Druid) and Spring // Mind (two card types) I was able to get insane value against various midrange creature strategies with Delirium cards like Descend Upon the Sinful and using Traverse the Ulvenwald for major threats like Gisela, the Broken Blade, and Bruna, the Fading Light
Sorcery Predators' Hour Until end of turn, creatures you control gain menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down
For now, however, Magnus the Red still seems like a solid card, even at $15 a copy
Mana Crypt is great, but so is Ancient Tomb
The cards you get can definitely go into other decks as you build your collection and with the vairety of cards there, they are good placeholders until you build a better and stronger collection
