MTG Salvation

I'm working on a Adun recursion deck. Its based off my Savra tokens deck I've had for a few years (list in the spoiler tag below).

My Savra deck was too creature controlling and felt way to similar to my Drana MBC deck. The Drana deck is more powerful and Savra has been sitting on the sidelines for a while now.

Its time to change things up and I have a few Aduns sitting around. I vaugely remember some tournament winning Adun deck a year back and thought it looked really fun.

I'm hoping this is actually pretty good and not a Savra deck that added red.
Is there anything really powerful/synergistic I'm missing from red?
Please check out my deck.

Your doing good for a conversion. I did this one before as well. As far as red missing from the deck creature wise I would say Goblin Settler and Fulminator Mage if you were wanting some more land spot removal. Also if you have the money Sneak Attack can be brutal in this kind of build.

As far as pulling card out to get to 100 I would start with Attrition and Shriekmaw. Of course this depends on how many black sources your opponents are using and the likely hood of them having black creatures.

A few things I would propose that you put in or might consider would be:
Decimate - awesome spot removal in Gruul. Does have its drawbacks, but for the most part you will never get better than 4 for 4.
Chromatic Lantern - perfect mana fixing.
Deathrender - fun shenanigans with sac outlets and Hell's Caretaker type stuff.
Doomed Necromancer - Another version of Hell's Caretaker that I have found quite useful in my deck.
Tortured Existence - kinda a reversed Survival of the Fittest.
Mulch - the kinda/maybe/sorta version of Hermit Druid in sorcery form.

Hope this helps! Also feel free to take a look at my list (sig) and if you have questions I would more than likely help you out. Good luck!

Shriekmaw is coming out. I removed it from my Savra deck awhile ago. I added it again thinking it would be good with Adun. Its just so narrow, I was never very happy to draw it in Savra.

OMG Sneak Attack!! I'll have to add it but I just bought a Taiga and the 2 shocklands missing for this conversion. Looking foward to abusing it.

I forgot about Goblin Settler too. I am so glad I have one from back in the day, wow its pricey now! This will replace the Shriekmaw.

Chromatic Lantern will replace Darksteel Ingot. I preferred the indestructability in a 2-color deck; the Lantern makes more sense now.


Tortured Existence. I forgot about this card. It works wonders in my casual Volrath's Shapeshifter/ Phage the Untouchable deck.
It makes Squee even better too.

Doomed Necromancer seems incredibly useful and I'll be adding him.

What do you guys think about Savra and Jarad? They're useful here right?


I'm not sure about Faithless looting. It seems good but feels to "reanimator" for this deck.

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What do you guys think about Savra and Jarad? They're useful here right?

I'm not sure about Faithless looting. It seems good but feels to "reanimator" for this deck.

I used to run Savra in mine till I found out she is too dependent on other things to be useful. One you have to have tokens or creatures that fulfill the color type and then you have to have a sac outlet that's online. When I had her in the deck she was either a awesome or just a really bad top deck.

Jarad on the other hand is awesome. Great for a recursion deck; awesome for dodging removal and dealing some damage at the same time.

Faithless Looting is ok. It and Wild Guess are amazing in mono red, but besides that I don't think I would run them. If your looking for more card draw I would go with the Phyrexian Arena and others(Graveborn Muse and Bloodgift Demon) or something like Dragon Appeasement which is one of my favorite Jund type cards. Of course its only good if you sac a lot. Hope this helps!