Do you bring in Lingering Souls for those matchups? I would think that against both we really just want more removal, I don't think either of those matchups are removal-heavy enough for Thrinax. I'd be looking to bring him in for the B/G/x mirror and against U/x/x.
That was my feeling Delver, I've only ever run 1 in traditional Jund and haven't really had a problem. Also, in the vein of grindy cards immune to removal...Sprouting Thrinax. Jund beats removal heavy decks primarily by taxing their removal with Kitchen Finks. Since we don't want to run it for obvious reasons, Thrinax seems like a reasonable option in a pure Jund list that is even harder to fully removal from the field. I might be more inclined to run Thrinax over Pia and Kiran for this slot.
Edit- I think I do still want one Ancient Grudge for Lantern/Tron.
If you really need to grind but don't want to run the white splash, a couple copies of Pia and Kiran Nalaar would probably make a difference. I think that we need to be very conservative about running 4-drops (I would maybe run 2 and no other 4-drop in the 75, but that still feels like it's pushing it), but P&K is definitely not a trivial thing to deal with, and most decks probably won't bring in things like Izzet Staticaster if they notice you're not on the white splash. I've also been trying to solve the U/x/x matchup, and have been debating just being Jund in the main deck (I love having the second overgrown tomb), but then running a Godless Shrine in the SB alongside 3 Souls and a Ranger of Eos. In playing against the deck, I make sure to keep an eye out for Godless Shrine in game 1 to inform how I need to sideboard, so I think there's some value in concealing that information. Then again, sideboard slots in Modern are very limited, so there's a good chance that the benefit just doesn't outweigh the drawback.
I've finally sleeved the deck up in paper (Tarfire is a $3 card, lord have mercy) and it's fairly common at my shop, so I'm really looking to get an edge in the mirror, in particular. Having played against the deck a few more times with Abzan over the weekend, I'm even more convinced that DS Jund should be siding out it's discard in the B/G/x mirror, but that means I need to have a decent amount of sideboard cards that I'm willing to bring in. Have people been finding the standard 2 Ancient Grudge in the sideboard necessary? With 2-3 Tarfire, 3 Fatal Push, and 2-3 K-Command in the main, I feel like we shouldn't need much more to solidify that matchup in games 2/3. Most sideboards are able to bring in a sweeper (K-Return or Anger), 1-2 Liliana, the Last Hope, an additional Fatal Push, and at least one Ancient Grudge, so is the second one really pulling that much extra weight? It seems even less necessary in lists splashing white, because Lingering Souls is such a beating for Affinity to get through.
As Junk, I was treating it like a normal B/G/x matchup and sided out my discard for more removal and haymakers (Gideon). My opponent left his discard in, and ran into the classic problem of topdecking discard while I was topdecking actual spells. I asked him about it afterwards, he'd sided out his Tarfires and a couple other cards (don't recall what), and I felt like it would have been better for him to have sided out the discard. His reasoning was that he thought that he wouldn't be able to stick a threat without stripping my removal first.
I faced Bant Eldrazi last night, man that matchup is hard. They dropped Worship and it was all over for me despite having lethal
I've been thinking more and more about Reclamation Sage after seeing the discussion a few pages back. Worship and Leyline of Sanctity get a lot easier to deal with when you have 5 copies of something to destroy them.
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Edit- I think I do still want one Ancient Grudge for Lantern/Tron.
I've finally sleeved the deck up in paper (Tarfire is a $3 card, lord have mercy) and it's fairly common at my shop, so I'm really looking to get an edge in the mirror, in particular. Having played against the deck a few more times with Abzan over the weekend, I'm even more convinced that DS Jund should be siding out it's discard in the B/G/x mirror, but that means I need to have a decent amount of sideboard cards that I'm willing to bring in. Have people been finding the standard 2 Ancient Grudge in the sideboard necessary? With 2-3 Tarfire, 3 Fatal Push, and 2-3 K-Command in the main, I feel like we shouldn't need much more to solidify that matchup in games 2/3. Most sideboards are able to bring in a sweeper (K-Return or Anger), 1-2 Liliana, the Last Hope, an additional Fatal Push, and at least one Ancient Grudge, so is the second one really pulling that much extra weight? It seems even less necessary in lists splashing white, because Lingering Souls is such a beating for Affinity to get through.
I've been thinking more and more about Reclamation Sage after seeing the discussion a few pages back. Worship and Leyline of Sanctity get a lot easier to deal with when you have 5 copies of something to destroy them.