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Yesterday I’ve told Ornithopter how much I love him for inspiring Andy Mangold to reimagine the way Magic can be enjoyed with his 100 Ornithopter cube. Today I want to talk about another very inspiring reimagining by Nick Floyd: Forgetful Fish.
For those who do not know, Forgetful Fish is a 80 card deck both players draw from. The only way to win is either with the 10 Dandân’s in the deck, or by decking your opponent. The deck consists of great ways of interacting with Dandân’s unique rules text and ways to manipulate the top of the deck. I first learned about this beautiful reimagination from my friend Rudy while we were driving to our annual Magic-friends-weekend. After the weekend, I kept thinking about Dandân. I saw so much potential in this reimagining, and to be honest, a lot of potential to reimagine a better version of the Dandân deck.
Rudy told me that Dandân is an extremely complex format. And it is this complexity that makes it so much fun, and I love me some complex Magic. But in my mind Dandân is a simple card. Because for me Dandân could just have been a 4/1 vanilla creature. And Mind Bend could be any one mana removal spell. Dandân’s unique rules text and the way cards like Mind Bend interact with it makes it an amazing gimmick. And as much as I appreciate this gimmick, it doesn’t add to the complexity. The complexity of Dandân is in manipulating the top of the deck. And the way to add to the existing complexity, is a different win condition.
This is where you come in, Delver of Secrets. You and Dandân are both aggressively costed creatures. There are a ton of cheap removal spells that can destroy you, like Mind Bend destroys DanDan. It is easy to reimagine the original Dandân list to your context, Delver of Secrets. But most important, you add so much more complexity. The manipulation of the top of the deck became so much more important, and complex, all thanks to you.
DelverDelver is now the favourite ‘in between matches pastime’ of our playgroup. For us the doubling down on complexity has trumped the gimmick. I’m really proud of my reimagination, it is so much fun. And I love you for inspiring me, Delver of Secrets.
With love,
Hanjo
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