One of the big players in the previous Standard format that we haven’t seen much of in the first few weeks of Kaladesh is Delirium. Pro Tour Eldritch Moon was all about various ways of powering out Emrakul, the Promised End by filling your graveyard, rather than via energy. Of course, not everyone gave up on the midrange decks that top out with Emrakul, the Promised End, and the deck actually did reasonably well at the Pro Tour:

B/G Delirium - Kaladesh Standard | Kyle Boggemes, Pro Tour Kaladesh

• Creatures (16)
• 4 Grim Flayer
• 3 Mindwrack Demon
• 2 Filigree Familiar
• 2 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
• 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1 Sylvan Advocate
• 1 Tireless Tracker
• 1 Verdurous Gearhulk

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 Liliana, the Last Hope

• Spells (16)
• 4 Grasp of Darkness
• 4 Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 3 Grapple with the Past
• 2 Murder
• 2 Vessel of Nascency
• 1 Ruinous Path

• Lands (24)
• 6 Forest
• 8 Swamp
• 4 Blooming Marsh
• 4 Hissing Quagmire
• 2 Evolving Wilds

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 2 Tireless Tracker
• 2 Dead Weight
• 2 Appetite for the Unnatural
• 1 To the Slaughter
• 3 Transgress the Mind
• 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1 Pick the Brain
• 2 Gnarlwood Dryad

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It may not look like it, but this deck gained a lot from Kaladesh, despite the fact that it plays relatively few cards from the set. It’s worth noting that this deck has taken a more aggressive slant, featuring Gnarlwood Dryads and Grim Flayers to help get ahead or stabilize the board early. These cards, backed up by Mindwrack Demon, give you the ability to apply substantial pressure early in the game or protect your life total.

Additionally, Kaladesh has allowed Kyle to include Filigree Familiar and Verdurous Gearhulk. This may not seem like a big change, but gaining access to reasonable creatures for the strategy that happen to be Artifacts makes it easier to incidentally turn on delirium early in the game. Being able to pick up extra card types for minimal cost is a big deal.

A huge strength of this deck is still its ability to use Traverse the Ulvenwald early on as a mana fixer, and to use it to tutor up powering singletons like Tireless Tracker, Verdurous Gearhulk, and Emrakul, the Promised End later on in the game. The ability to maximize this deck space against an open field is not something that should be overlooked, and may be an incredible asset coming out of the Pro Tour weekend.