A midrange deck with a cheap threat with which to cheese wins against Tron, AN, Burn, and other linear strategies. Grixis Delver is inconsistent when it comes to sticking an early threat in the early turns in that kind of matchup, making it a worse Temur Delver there and a worse Grixis Control against fair decks. But it’s obviously better at adopting the midrange role than we are, since it’s built like a midrange deck. Overall: competent but unfocused, and not superb at any one thing.

I really don’t. We need as many ways as possible to protect the threat we suit up with Curiosity, and it helps that Curi pitches to Shoal itself when we need it to. In Bolt matchups, it’s generally best to save Curi for Mandrills or Goyf; in linear matchups like Tron, though, dropping it on our first threat is fine.