I vote Preordain.

I’ll vote Dig.

If I may:

The wizards reasoning for banning dig through time was controversial at the time, for a couple of reasons:

1) Delver had never played the card.
2) wizards was assuming a level of intimacy with the nuances of the deck that they have since shown is unlikely to be backed up by testing (numerous occasions they have stated that they don’t test for modern).

We have a situation where they used an educated guess to suggest that Delver might pick up the card, based on zero data and little or no testing.

Regardless of their written reasons, you can’t seriously consider delver as the deck “that got dig banned” because it was only hypothetical. Delver never even played dig. Dig merely got the axe for being vaguely similar to treasure cruise, and if your testing on unbanning cards is going to be worth anything at all, you need to be testing these cards primarily in shells where we know they’ll get played, ideally because they’ve seen play before. Scapeshift was tier 1 with dig, it was a good deck. It’s the most successful deck that ran the card & is the clear testing choice.

There wasn’t a clear “deck that got Dig banned” in this situation, because wizards’ written reasons reference a deck that didn’t even play the card. I think you have to expand your testinf criteria in this instance

Dig Throught Time- I do understand the reasoning on what decks you’ll be testing with, but DTT in Delver will be kind of cool, but seems like it’d be better in combo or control. Being a Delver player though, it’d be neat to see. Maybe DTT would be a card they could restrict in modern. But I don’t think we’ll ever see it come back.

Preordain- Actually I think would be massive to helping the viability of Delver, and only make Storm better. It’d slot into every blue deck and be a 3/4$$ common! Boring card, but huge impact.

Let’s see the unknown, go Preordain.

But is it the one you deserve?

Preordain is not banned in either.
It’s only a weeeeee bit better than serum visions, however it’s serum visions 5-8.

I think it’s much closer to being able to be unbanned comparative to dig, and therefor wayyyy more worth your time

I knew that I needed to test a fair blue deck with these cards. When I looked at the various metagame rankings across the web the highest was always UW, with various Grixis builds a distant second. I didn’t see Jeskai builds very often and always tier 3. As my policy is to use high tier decks in testing whenever possible, I went with UW.

This has the additional benefit that Dig and Preordain are good cards in UW. While I’m sure that a Grixis list would run Preordain (most already run Serum Visions) I’m skeptical that Dig is where they want to be.

Never had an issue with blood moon on ad nauseam between the 3 basics, pentad, and lotus bloom. I do think it is greatly affected by discard and surgical which seems to be a growing trend.

We all know that DtT is way too good for MDN. But the impact of a “pushed Serum Visions” for Storm would be really interesting.

Part of it’s personal, because Dig might be my all time favorite card. But I also think Preordain is too obviously broken. I’d love to have Preordain in Modern but of the two, I think Dig is less-obviously broken, and thus will probably be a more interesting test.

(I agree with other Nexites that a card banned in Legacy is unlikely to be UN-banned in Modern…)

(David: could you elaborate on why you choose UW Control over UWR Nahiri? I understand that UW is more popular atm (?), but I feel that Jeskai Nahiri has more to gain from the scry-first-draw-later due to Emrakul being in the deck, alongside digging deeper into the deck and seeing more high-impact sideboard cards which both decks share.
Btw my highest compliments, your contribution to the format really is unparalleled!)