This is the current build I'm running. I'm currently on swapping a Fulminator Mage for Thundermaw Hellkite, and something in the main for Chandra, Torch of Defiance. My meta is mostly aggressive decks like Burn, Infect and Dredge, as well as a healthy amount of BGx
The Jund Master's latest list. Nice to see Reid pilot Jund again.
Yes indeed! Lets hope he recorded his tournament, would be interesting to hear about some card choises.
Why 2 x Chandra, when based on his sideboard he was expecting lots of affinity?
Why 2 x Leyline of the Void? Against what matchup are you willing to mulligan hard to find one of those anyways?
Zero board sweepers feels also risky to me, but I guess he was planning to stop Collected Company with Cages.
Chandra can act as removal as well. As a result even against the hyper aggro decks it is a far better top deck then say an inquisition or thoughtseize.
Yes it's not the most ideal card vs affinity, but the -3 makes it considerably more useful than Liliana (in the specific matchup of Affinity).
plus if it sticks around - you will be winning that game.
Leyline seems an odd inclusion, especially with the decline of Dredge. Of course you could also use it vs storm and coco combo decks... so depending on the meta maybe it's worth it.
I don't think Leyline is all that odd. Both Jund and Grixis Death Shadow have an incredibly hard time vs Turn 0 Leyline (not auto-scoop, but very, very hard). The main thing is that it beats discard spells better than most other options. It's also not the worst to cast a little later, so it's not something you have to mull to find.
Reid is playing a list similar to the one posted above but with -1 Abrupt Decay and +1 Terminate. Crazy how Ced was wondering why Reid is still playing Traditional Jund rather than DS. But Reid and us here know that greatness comes at any cost!
Speaking of the Jund master, Reid Duke is 8-0 going into round 9 at SCG Baltimore, playing Jund!
Edit: 9-0 day 1!
I wonder what happened to all those naysayer who were screaming "Jund is dead." I've been rocking and rolling with Jund at my LGS' weekly Modern event. Split two win-a-box and top 4'd another this month.
Reid just beat Vizier company to go up 11-0. That was a very close game where Reid really leveraged on his skill to wipe the company's board with Olivia Voldaren and swing for the win with some timely push and seize. It was truly a joy to watch. I hope he wins the whole thing.
His sideboard is the same as posted but his main has one Lavamancer and Olivia Voldaren.
Hi! Yesterday I went to the local store for MCM Trial (no idea what MCM means). Rewards were MM17 Boosters so you can imagine the store was cracking up.
At my last tournament I tried to break through with Abzan (Hierarch/Flayer version) and went 1:3 drop with:
T1 titanshift (loss)
T2 GB Tron (loss)
T3 Grixis Death's Shadow (win)
T4 Titanshift AGAIN! (loss) -> drop.
This time around I decided to take Jund and try my chances as the matchups with titanshift and tron are, in my opinion, a bit better. Decklist I used below, alongside with sideboard choices and tournament reprise.
To my surprise it went much better with this list.
Game 1: Grixis Death's Shadow (2:1)
1st: I was simply able to win first game due to better topdecks.
2nd: Went in the hands of my opponent as he was able to have all the necessary answers, even to protect his threats, also no sideboard card made an appearance.
3rd: I went full retard with this one, leaveing discard in my deck, in case I get my sideboard, proved useful as i was able to get rid of opponent's discard and locked him with choke on turn 3 which left him with 3 tapped lands an one creature on board (tasigur) that was quickly dismissed afterwards and the lockdown was strong enough to give me inevitable board presence.
Not sure if my sideboard choices were correct:
- Chandra, Glorybringer, Collective Brutality, M. Pulse.
+ 2x Blood Moon, Choke, Thrun
Chandra and Bringer seems not all that good as they don't kill neither of tasigur, fish or Death's shadow in most cases.
Brutality lacks power in my opinion as the removal part hits basically nothing.
Moon and Choke seemed to me as a preferable choice as I often hear people talking about how unstable Grix Death's shadows manabase is. Thrun seemed like efficient blocker which can't be put down by shadow in any means.
Game 2: Dredge (2:1)
1st: Wast a bust! I was trying to outrace my opponent with T2 goyf and ravine swings but left him at 4 life while he ended the game with one simple swing for 16 (I was at 16 :'( ) by unearthing devil and running all over my face. Also I think I had way too much dead cards - Liliana, discards that lead to nowhere.
2nd: Wow, now that was something. My first discard threw away reunion, then I followed by goyf. On t3 I had nothing relevant, but by the turn 4 the game was almost done, I swiped the board with NoSB killing 3 ghasts a 2 moebas and downgrading amalgan, rendering my opponent unable to attack due to my goyf. On turn 5 I topdecked Kalitas and played him which by the sights of my opponent stripped him of will to play and after few turns we went for another.
3rd: I was simply rude with this one, T1 discard for my opponent's abrupt. He tried to start dredging quite soon, but his first narcomoeba trigger opened me space for -2 life amalgan hit with my extraction. After that I played t2 Scavenging ooze and simply overpowered my opponent through the whole game from this point.
Sideboard choices:
- 3x Liliana of the veil, Thoughtseize, Dark Confidant.
+ 2x Surgical Extraction, Anger of the gods, Night of Souls' Betrayal, Rakdos Charm.
Guess no explanation needed here.
Game 3: Bant Eldrazi (2:1)
1st: Opponent mulliganed once, but went T2 knot seer with double eldrazi temple. I basically started with hand full of active removal and was able to deal with all his threats (2 knots and smasher), then securing my goyf with discard that took away his path. From that point I just stomped.
2nd: Opponent mulliganed once again! But again he started T2 knot seer as he had again both temples (dang, lol) this time he just went full on curve and I was not able to stop him no matter what. Also no sideboard card came around.
3rd: manadork push, Goyf, Blood moon, GG.
1st: Discard, Goyf, Liliana - after some fight I stripped him of half his by Lil's ultimate and Oozed him dead.
2nd: Discard, Confidant (got pathed), Chandra and I opponent basically basically tried to counter kill anything from this point on but Chandra was just way too much of a Card advantage.
I think that opponent actually screwed by pathing my confidant and giving me 4 lands by turn 3 (dunno, I wouldn't do it at this point of game). Also I am never sure about the surgical extraction sideboardig and I think Thrun is a lot weaker with alliance around but they seem to work. Other option I was considering was boarding in 2 Baloths instead of extraction just so I have more creatures in deck.
Game 5: Dunno,.. (Draw)
TOP 8
Game 6: Naya Burn (2:0)
1st: Went full careful, double chump blocked with Dark confidant though and t4 kalitas just made the game for me.
2nd: with early removals in hand and both kalitas and ooze I kept it. Ooze blocked and got buzzed dead. I played t4 tarmogoyf over kalitas because I had that feeling about opponent having a path, well he had, so afterward as he saw kalitas in turn 5 he scooped.
In both games I got literally on the verge of death - 4 life against topdecking Burn. Also I am not sure at all about the extraction/thoughtseize side while I think that Thoughtseize may strip you of 2 life and take away potentialy up to 4 dmg or so. Having extraction hitting atarka's command or Boros charm for safety purposes with no life loss seems just better.
Game 7: Bant Eldrazi (2:0) (different guy)
1st: Opponent mulliganed to 4 (damn), then dropped non-temple land and mana dork that got pushed, after that he dropped 2 more lands, until he scooped to my board presence (goyf, lil).
2nd: Double mana dork and rest in peace from my opponent. I dismissed the rest in peace by pulse after dropping two goyfs. Opponent had pretty much nothing to get through goyfs (his TKS way way too small after I hit his hierarch). We somehow got into topdecking phase with him having TKS seer stripping me of my last card (damnation). I thought everything was over but *BAM* Mighty Glorybringer from the topdeck shot his knot seer dead bringing me Liliana in process. In next 2 turns game was over.
Although I saw Bringer exactly once during whole tournament. This memory leaves smirk on my face even as I write. This felt just simply epic.
Game 8: UR Storm (0:2)
1st: I kept kinda risky hand with no green but Ooze and discard which led to my quick demise as I missed green even on t3 and droping anything at t4 against storm is futile effort.
2nd: I had everything, discard, ooze, more discard. Killed opponent Goblins with brutality and discard (hitting gifts). Only for him to topdeck another one and starting to combo me out easily.
(If you would lick me at this point, I'd be pure salt. Leaving my opponent to combo out whole way again, and pressing his hand a bit harder than I normally would).
There is literally nothing I can say about this game. Except I might've mulliganed to 5 at first game just to get green and die anyway (idk). 2nd game I felt like there is literally nothing that could stop me. Well Opponent had everything covered with that gifts draw while only one turn further I would be Oozing his grave and probably handling the situation.
So to speak. I went home with second place, overall score 6:1:1 and 8 MM17 boosters which left me with Cavern of souls and foil Blood moon in my hands. I am not sure if all my plays were always good or sideboarding best but I tried and it worked out somehow.
- Glorybringer is probably nowhere best in his spot but the one time I played him it was great.
- Sideboarding against tron and titanshift with ultimate card choices didn't show anything as I did not meet them.
- Where the heck are all the affinities? O.o
TL;DR, I did Jund-everyone-out except for storm which I think I should but somehow was not able to
I actually think Reid Duke>Willy Edel when things come to Jund.
I think reid is a great Jund player and definitely my number 2, but actually, reid is not a modern player at heart like Willy is. Therefore for me Willy is clearly the number 1, and also considering the past.
On a general note, I am excited that Reid is rocking Jund at this modern event, its great news and our decks certainly needs this kind of attention so that more people maybe choose the deck as their weapon in future tournaments.
I personally find it a bit sad that for such a thing always famous people are the only impactful ones. But doesn't matter to me, I play Jund whether its Tier 1 or lower, its about passion rather than publicity.
Reid just beat Vizier company to go up 11-0. That was a very close game where Reid really leveraged on his skill to wipe the company's board with Olivia Voldaren and swing for the win with some timely push and seize. It was truly a joy to watch. I hope he wins the whole thing.
His sideboard is the same as posted but his main has one Lavamancer and Olivia Voldaren.
I always wanted to try Olivia MB and advocated for it in the past, but most seemed to be against it, so it never happened for me to actually test her, sadly enough.
I always wanted to try Olivia MB and advocated for it in the past, but most seemed to be against it, so it never happened for me to actually test her, sadly enough.
Play the deck how you want to play it, don't let others decide for you. I've been playing the deck with Hazoret and won my weekly Modern even last week and was the only undefeated after Swiss at a Vegas GPT yesterday. The reality of Jund is that no matter what 4-drops or flex creatures we decide to play with, the deck will always be powerful.
I always wanted to try Olivia MB and advocated for it in the past, but most seemed to be against it, so it never happened for me to actually test her, sadly enough.
Play the deck how you want to play it, don't let others decide for you. I've been playing the deck with Hazoret and won my weekly Modern even last week and was the only undefeated after Swiss at a Vegas GPT yesterday. The reality of Jund is that no matter what 4-drops or flex creatures we decide to play with, the deck will always be powerful.
Cedric has been lightheartedly giving Reid a bad time for playing Jund this weekend but he was correct when he said that even if Jund isn't the best deck right now, an excellent pilot can be very successful with it.
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4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
3 Scavenging Ooze
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
Useful Things
3 Fatal Push
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Terminate
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Kolaghan's Command
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Thoughtseize
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Liliana of the Veil
Go-Getters
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Wooded Foothills
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Raging Ravine
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
2 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Blooming Marsh
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Fulminator Mage
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Damnation
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Collective Brutality
Chandra can act as removal as well. As a result even against the hyper aggro decks it is a far better top deck then say an inquisition or thoughtseize.
Yes it's not the most ideal card vs affinity, but the -3 makes it considerably more useful than Liliana (in the specific matchup of Affinity).
plus if it sticks around - you will be winning that game.
Leyline seems an odd inclusion, especially with the decline of Dredge. Of course you could also use it vs storm and coco combo decks... so depending on the meta maybe it's worth it.
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Severalv have. It was a precursor to Death's Shadow Jund.
Here's what I'm currently running. My LGS has a lot of Jund and some Affinity, with a bit of Bant too.
4x Dark Confidant
2x Scavenging Ooze
4x Tarmogoyf
1x Courser of Kruphix
2x Kitchen Finks
1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1x Huntmaster of the Fells
Spells: 17
2x Inquisition of Kozilek
3x Thoughtseize
4x Lightning Bolt
2x Terminate
3x Abrupt Decay
2x Kolaghan's Command
1x Maelstrom Pulse
3x Liliana of the Veil
1x Chandra, Pyromaster
Lands: 24
4x Blackcleave Cliffs
2x Overgrown Tomb
1x Blood Crypt
1x Stomping Grounds
4x Verdant Catacombs
2x Bloodstained Mire
2x Wooded Foothills
1x Twilight Mire
3x Raging Ravine
2x Treetop Village
1x Swamp
1x Forest
1x Grafdigger's Cage
2x Ancient Grudge
2x Fulminator Mage
2x Anger of the Gods
1x Sword of Light and Shadow
2x Crumble to Dust
2x Obstinate Baloth
2x Thrun, the Last Troll
1x Slaughter Games
I have these lying around.
1x Courser of Kruphix
1x Kitchen Finks
2x Fulminator Mage
1x Olivia Voldaren
1x Huntmaster of the Fells
1x Stormbreath Dragon
2x Inquisition of Kozilek
1x Back to Nature
2x Rakdos Charm
1x Jund Charm
I respect reid and he's a great Jund player, but the Jund master is still Willy Edel
Blasphemy!
Edit: 9-0 day 1!
I wonder what happened to all those naysayer who were screaming "Jund is dead." I've been rocking and rolling with Jund at my LGS' weekly Modern event. Split two win-a-box and top 4'd another this month.
His sideboard is the same as posted but his main has one Lavamancer and Olivia Voldaren.
At my last tournament I tried to break through with Abzan (Hierarch/Flayer version) and went 1:3 drop with:
T1 titanshift (loss)
T2 GB Tron (loss)
T3 Grixis Death's Shadow (win)
T4 Titanshift AGAIN! (loss) -> drop.
This time around I decided to take Jund and try my chances as the matchups with titanshift and tron are, in my opinion, a bit better. Decklist I used below, alongside with sideboard choices and tournament reprise.
4x Dark Confidant
4x Tarmogoyf
3x Scavenging Ooze
2x Kalitas, traitor of Ghet
1x Glorybringer
Planeswalkers: (4)
3x Liliana of the Veil
1x Chandra, torch of defiance
Spells: (18)
4x Inquisition of Kozilek
2x Thougtseize
3x Fatal Push
3x Terminate
2x Abrupt Decay
2x Kolaghan's Command
1x Maelstrom Pulse
1x Collective Brutality
4x Verdant Catacombs
2x Wooded Foothills
2x Bloodstained Mire
3x Raging Ravine
2x Overgrown Tomb
1x Stomping Ground
1x Blood Crypt
1x Twilight Mire
3x Blackcleave Cliffs
1x Blooming Marsh
2x Swamp
2x Forest
1x Thrun, the Last Troll
1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
1x Damnation
1x Anger of the Gods
1x Rakdos Charm
1x Choke
1x Collective Brutality
2x Obstinate Baloth
2x Crumble to Dust
2x Blood Moon
2x Surgical Extraction
To my surprise it went much better with this list.
Game 1: Grixis Death's Shadow (2:1)
2nd: Went in the hands of my opponent as he was able to have all the necessary answers, even to protect his threats, also no sideboard card made an appearance.
3rd: I went full retard with this one, leaveing discard in my deck, in case I get my sideboard, proved useful as i was able to get rid of opponent's discard and locked him with choke on turn 3 which left him with 3 tapped lands an one creature on board (tasigur) that was quickly dismissed afterwards and the lockdown was strong enough to give me inevitable board presence.
Not sure if my sideboard choices were correct:
- Chandra, Glorybringer, Collective Brutality, M. Pulse.
+ 2x Blood Moon, Choke, Thrun
Chandra and Bringer seems not all that good as they don't kill neither of tasigur, fish or Death's shadow in most cases.
Brutality lacks power in my opinion as the removal part hits basically nothing.
Moon and Choke seemed to me as a preferable choice as I often hear people talking about how unstable Grix Death's shadows manabase is. Thrun seemed like efficient blocker which can't be put down by shadow in any means.
2nd: Wow, now that was something. My first discard threw away reunion, then I followed by goyf. On t3 I had nothing relevant, but by the turn 4 the game was almost done, I swiped the board with NoSB killing 3 ghasts a 2 moebas and downgrading amalgan, rendering my opponent unable to attack due to my goyf. On turn 5 I topdecked Kalitas and played him which by the sights of my opponent stripped him of will to play and after few turns we went for another.
3rd: I was simply rude with this one, T1 discard for my opponent's abrupt. He tried to start dredging quite soon, but his first narcomoeba trigger opened me space for -2 life amalgan hit with my extraction. After that I played t2 Scavenging ooze and simply overpowered my opponent through the whole game from this point.
Sideboard choices:
- 3x Liliana of the veil, Thoughtseize, Dark Confidant.
+ 2x Surgical Extraction, Anger of the gods, Night of Souls' Betrayal, Rakdos Charm.
Guess no explanation needed here.
Game 3: Bant Eldrazi (2:1)
2nd: Opponent mulliganed once again! But again he started T2 knot seer as he had again both temples (dang, lol) this time he just went full on curve and I was not able to stop him no matter what. Also no sideboard card came around.
3rd: manadork push, Goyf, Blood moon, GG.
Sideboard choices:
- Collective Brutality, 2x Abrupt Decay.
+ Damnation, 2x Blood Moon
Guess no explanation needed here either.
Game 4: UW Control (2:0)
2nd: Discard, Confidant (got pathed), Chandra and I opponent basically basically tried to counter kill anything from this point on but Chandra was just way too much of a Card advantage.
Sideboard choices:
- 2x Abrupt Decay, terminate, push.
+ Choke, Thrun, 2x Surgical Extraction.
I think that opponent actually screwed by pathing my confidant and giving me 4 lands by turn 3 (dunno, I wouldn't do it at this point of game). Also I am never sure about the surgical extraction sideboardig and I think Thrun is a lot weaker with alliance around but they seem to work. Other option I was considering was boarding in 2 Baloths instead of extraction just so I have more creatures in deck.
Game 5: Dunno,.. (Draw)
TOP 8
Game 6: Naya Burn (2:0)
2nd: with early removals in hand and both kalitas and ooze I kept it. Ooze blocked and got buzzed dead. I played t4 tarmogoyf over kalitas because I had that feeling about opponent having a path, well he had, so afterward as he saw kalitas in turn 5 he scooped.
Sideboard choices:
- 4x Dark Confidant, 2x Thoughtseize, Glorybringer.
+ 2x Obstinate Baloth, Collective Brutalitty, 2x surgical extraction.
In both games I got literally on the verge of death - 4 life against topdecking Burn. Also I am not sure at all about the extraction/thoughtseize side while I think that Thoughtseize may strip you of 2 life and take away potentialy up to 4 dmg or so. Having extraction hitting atarka's command or Boros charm for safety purposes with no life loss seems just better.
Game 7: Bant Eldrazi (2:0) (different guy)
2nd: Double mana dork and rest in peace from my opponent. I dismissed the rest in peace by pulse after dropping two goyfs. Opponent had pretty much nothing to get through goyfs (his TKS way way too small after I hit his hierarch). We somehow got into topdecking phase with him having TKS seer stripping me of my last card (damnation). I thought everything was over but *BAM* Mighty Glorybringer from the topdeck shot his knot seer dead bringing me Liliana in process. In next 2 turns game was over.
Sideboard choices:
- Collective Brutality, 2x Abrupt Decay.
+ Damnation, 2x Blood Moon
Although I saw Bringer exactly once during whole tournament. This memory leaves smirk on my face even as I write. This felt just simply epic.
Game 8: UR Storm (0:2)
2nd: I had everything, discard, ooze, more discard. Killed opponent Goblins with brutality and discard (hitting gifts). Only for him to topdeck another one and starting to combo me out easily.
(If you would lick me at this point, I'd be pure salt. Leaving my opponent to combo out whole way again, and pressing his hand a bit harder than I normally would).
Sideboard Choices:
- Glorybringer, Chandra, 2x Kalitas, Kolaghan's Command.
+ Collective Brutality, 2x Surgical Extraction, Choke, Rakdos Charm.
There is literally nothing I can say about this game. Except I might've mulliganed to 5 at first game just to get green and die anyway (idk). 2nd game I felt like there is literally nothing that could stop me. Well Opponent had everything covered with that gifts draw while only one turn further I would be Oozing his grave and probably handling the situation.
So to speak. I went home with second place, overall score 6:1:1 and 8 MM17 boosters which left me with Cavern of souls and foil Blood moon in my hands. I am not sure if all my plays were always good or sideboarding best but I tried and it worked out somehow.
- Glorybringer is probably nowhere best in his spot but the one time I played him it was great.
- Sideboarding against tron and titanshift with ultimate card choices didn't show anything as I did not meet them.
- Where the heck are all the affinities? O.o
TL;DR, I did Jund-everyone-out except for storm which I think I should but somehow was not able to
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They will be nicely splitted by each round, so you don't have to skim through all the DS matches..
I think reid is a great Jund player and definitely my number 2, but actually, reid is not a modern player at heart like Willy is. Therefore for me Willy is clearly the number 1, and also considering the past.
On a general note, I am excited that Reid is rocking Jund at this modern event, its great news and our decks certainly needs this kind of attention so that more people maybe choose the deck as their weapon in future tournaments.
I personally find it a bit sad that for such a thing always famous people are the only impactful ones. But doesn't matter to me, I play Jund whether its Tier 1 or lower, its about passion rather than publicity.
I always wanted to try Olivia MB and advocated for it in the past, but most seemed to be against it, so it never happened for me to actually test her, sadly enough.
Play the deck how you want to play it, don't let others decide for you. I've been playing the deck with Hazoret and won my weekly Modern even last week and was the only undefeated after Swiss at a Vegas GPT yesterday. The reality of Jund is that no matter what 4-drops or flex creatures we decide to play with, the deck will always be powerful.
I definitely agree with this.