haha, through all the bannings, this is the best showing Jund has had at a big tournament in quite some time. Brace yourself for whiners to call for Bob to be banned.
I really don't like the choice of Explore and Anger in the pure Cryptic Shift list. I don't like Explore as a card in general since I'd rather have the guaranteed ramp of Farseek if you want more than 8 ramp spells, but if you're gonna go the more explosive route and play Explore, it seems insane not to include some amount of Serum Visions and/or Halimar Depths to help manipulate the top of your library so can draw into another land to play. Anger seems bad because of the double red, since this deck is usually searching up basic lands to leave mountains in the deck for Scapeshift, and the biggest priority is hitting triple blue and double green.
How is ad nauseam a good matchup, i find it to be quite challenging. When you scape they just bast grace and kill you next turn, when they get boseju you are just dead. This matchup is really awkward in fact
That's where having a few more creatures than usual comes in handy since they just sit there and get beaten on until right before they're about to combo off. Even if their Angel's Grace saves them, they'll be at 1 and you can just kill them next turn, plus if they waste that on not dying to scapeshift, it means they need to find another before they can try to combo. Other than that just save counterspells for Ad Nauseam, since they only have a limited number of Pact of Negation and they usually have to be saved for protecting their Lightning Storm. Remanding Lotus Bloom is usually pretty fun too since it slows them down so much. After sideboard more counterspells + ancient grudge kills them pretty bad.
hahaha yeah, re-ban Valakut, amirite?
/braces self for scapeshift to become a $25 card
That's where having a few more creatures than usual comes in handy since they just sit there and get beaten on until right before they're about to combo off. Even if their Angel's Grace saves them, they'll be at 1 and you can just kill them next turn, plus if they waste that on not dying to scapeshift, it means they need to find another before they can try to combo. Other than that just save counterspells for Ad Nauseam, since they only have a limited number of Pact of Negation and they usually have to be saved for protecting their Lightning Storm. Remanding Lotus Bloom is usually pretty fun too since it slows them down so much. After sideboard more counterspells + ancient grudge kills them pretty bad.