Long story short, I loaned the deck out, and they said "This deck is quintessential Jund!". That gave me an idea: I am going to make a deck for each shard, then loan them out for a Star format (You kill the two people furthest away from you to win, 5 players). Then... I started trying to build the decks, and realized I didnt have a good idea for the theme of the other decks.
Bant obviously will include a large majority of shards, as Exalted isnt in any other set. However, I'm running a blank on other things to include. Are there any older cards that work well with Bant? What is the finisher?
For Esper I was thinking of building around Sludge Strider. Myr Retriever, Myr Servitor, and some artifact mana generation should let me sacrifice just about anything, drain life, and... I don't really have an idea for a win condition. Blind Hunter is going in, but it is hardly a win condition.
Grixis, however, I am lost on. I'm starting with Torrent of Souls, but I have never built on a reanimator strategy before, so I have no idea what to build.
I would think Glare of Subdual would fit in with Bant as a good controlling card...if you go with Exalted as the theme, you're attacking with one guy, and can use the rest to tap your opponents' creatures.
Esper wants the Mirrodin Artifact lands...and you could go either control or aggro with that.
I put together a fun deck based around Scarland Thrinax and Sprouting Thrinax. Make lots of tokens with Mogg War Marshall, Fists of Ironwood, and Sprout Swarm, then finish with things like Mycoloth and Furystoke Giant.
Long story short, I loaned the deck out, and they said "This deck is quintessential Jund!". That gave me an idea: I am going to make a deck for each shard, then loan them out for a Star format (You kill the two people furthest away from you to win, 5 players). Then... I started trying to build the decks, and realized I didnt have a good idea for the theme of the other decks.
Bant obviously will include a large majority of shards, as Exalted isnt in any other set. However, I'm running a blank on other things to include. Are there any older cards that work well with Bant? What is the finisher?
For Esper I was thinking of building around Sludge Strider. Myr Retriever, Myr Servitor, and some artifact mana generation should let me sacrifice just about anything, drain life, and... I don't really have an idea for a win condition. Blind Hunter is going in, but it is hardly a win condition.
Naya will be zoo. Wooly Thoctar, Watchwolf, Wild Nacatl, BoP, etc.
Grixis, however, I am lost on. I'm starting with Torrent of Souls, but I have never built on a reanimator strategy before, so I have no idea what to build.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Esper wants the Mirrodin Artifact lands...and you could go either control or aggro with that.
Grixis could either go heavy discard/Unearth (Blightning, etc etc) or Torrent of Souls/Nucklavee with a lot of the Grixis spells (Agony Warp, Rise//Fall, Cruel Ultimatum, Grixis Charm, etc etc)
Naya builds itself...just find efficient creatures -- Calciderm/Blastoderm, Argothian Wurm/Shivan Wumpus, etc etc etc
Your Jund deck sounds exactly like mine...down to the Fists of Ironwood and Mogg War Marshals...so that seems fine.
Good luck!