I've been tooling around with Jund for a while and I was playing the same 75 as frank lepore for a while but I decided it was time to throw my own spin on it. Im not sure if I should find room for inkmoth or not for the wolfrun back up plan.
I don't even understand why pod is in the op's deck. Without a green source of mana you have to pay 2 life every time you use the pod as well as casting it, that's too much for what you gain from running the card.
edit: read the new deck, I like it
Pod is in my list as a back up plan. The main goal was to use architect. In the couple test games I played I swaped out an island and an inkmoth for 2a forests.
I also started with this list almost identical except in place of elixer I had a key. This is not a bad build just lackluster.
I have plenty of early protection with the sellskites and perlious myr and by using pod to get past my 3 drop into 4 and up guess what more protection. We are not making a u/x pod list we are simply trying to evolve archpod. And no this does not need to be mono u because with the splash of w or b or both just makes it better for us.
Good build just a little slower than I like.
I see your running mindslave in the mainboard. Wouldn't a contagion engine be a better mainboard choice as an opposing sweeper? And if you did do this change would it be to hard to run inkmoth nexus? I know in one of my games I had 3 architects out and was making my inkmoth blue for 4 infect. Just an alt. Win con I suppose.
I like the deck man. I had a similar deck a few months ago using an elf package and fire servant. Big fricken fireball ftw. Its OG. the elves and archdruids can be fragile though.
Looking at your SB I would run creeping corrosion over into the core. It stomps tempered steel and u can use it to destroy 1 artifact where as into the core u need 2 targets.
I played the deck in 4 games last night and the results were very underwhelming.
Vs. MBC
Round 1
He had removal for all my creatures while I was taking 2a damage a turn thanks to a pair of vault skirges, I finally got a couple architects online and laid down a wurmcoil. He plaid a lashwrithe and equipped it to a vampire nighthawk for game.
ROUND 2
I side boarded in 3 into the roil.
He mulliganed down to 5 and a kept at 7. He had a much slower start and I flooded him with creatures.
Round 3
He swarmed me with removal and dropped grave on his 6th turn and I was stuck at 3 land.
VS. Elves
round 1 and 2
Way to fast, dead by turn 6 both games.
VS. K red
round 1
I was scared this would be even faster than the elves but I got lucky and opened with a spellskite into a architect on turn 3. Turn 4 I played a treasure mage and grabbed a wurmcoil. Made the spellskite blue and tapped all 3 for the engine.
Round 2
Much slower, I ended up with a grand architect and coppied it twice with metamorphs. 3 spellskites and three architects got me there though.
VS. Tezz aggro
these games are blurry as I was tired but he was playing many cheap artifacts, and using tezz ultimate for the win. I didn't stand a chance.
I considered the masticore and im just not sure what I would drop, plus card disadvantage seems like a big downer. I am only running 3 five drops and 4 six drops so im thinking about dropping 1 sphinx for a precursor golem.
I was thinking about running a few forests just so I didn't have to pay a bunch of life but at the same time pod is more of a plan B. I believe my list is more tezz/architect than it is pod. I would be scared to run 4 colors as I am not a fan of the mull. I will test tonight at midweek magic and give results later.
I've been trolling the forums for a good 8 months now and finally decided to get in on the craziness. I wasn't going to join as I only use my DROIDX but I see that many people do so please excuse errors. This is a deck I am thinking about using in a FNM but I have not tested it at all which I know I should but work gets in the way so I am open to all suggestions.
I wasn't sure if I should post this in the G/x pod forum as the only green card is pod. It is sort of similar to kenny obergs (sp?) Podcaster. Thanks for any response.
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Copperline Gorge
3 Dragonskull Summit
3 Forest
2 Kessig Wolf Run
2 Mountain
3 Rootbound Crag
3 Swamp
4 Woodland Cemetery
// Creatures
1 Acidic Slime
1 Birds of Paradise
2 Daybreak Ranger
2 Falkenrath Aristocrat
1 Grave Titan
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Inferno Titan
1 Massacre Wurm
2 Primeval Titan
3 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Viridian Emissary
2 Curse of Death's Hold
2 Doom Blade
2 Faithless Looting
3 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Liliana of the Veil
4 Sphere of the Suns
2 Unburial Rites
1 Acidic Slime
1 Curse of Death's Hold
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Despise
2 Olivia Voldaren
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
3 Whipflare
I've been tooling around with Jund for a while and I was playing the same 75 as frank lepore for a while but I decided it was time to throw my own spin on it. Im not sure if I should find room for inkmoth or not for the wolfrun back up plan.
Pod is in my list as a back up plan. The main goal was to use architect. In the couple test games I played I swaped out an island and an inkmoth for 2a forests.
I see your running mindslave in the mainboard. Wouldn't a contagion engine be a better mainboard choice as an opposing sweeper? And if you did do this change would it be to hard to run inkmoth nexus? I know in one of my games I had 3 architects out and was making my inkmoth blue for 4 infect. Just an alt. Win con I suppose.
Looking at your SB I would run creeping corrosion over into the core. It stomps tempered steel and u can use it to destroy 1 artifact where as into the core u need 2 targets.
Vs. MBC
Round 1
He had removal for all my creatures while I was taking 2a damage a turn thanks to a pair of vault skirges, I finally got a couple architects online and laid down a wurmcoil. He plaid a lashwrithe and equipped it to a vampire nighthawk for game.
ROUND 2
I side boarded in 3 into the roil.
He mulliganed down to 5 and a kept at 7. He had a much slower start and I flooded him with creatures.
Round 3
He swarmed me with removal and dropped grave on his 6th turn and I was stuck at 3 land.
VS. Elves
round 1 and 2
Way to fast, dead by turn 6 both games.
VS. K red
round 1
I was scared this would be even faster than the elves but I got lucky and opened with a spellskite into a architect on turn 3. Turn 4 I played a treasure mage and grabbed a wurmcoil. Made the spellskite blue and tapped all 3 for the engine.
Round 2
Much slower, I ended up with a grand architect and coppied it twice with metamorphs. 3 spellskites and three architects got me there though.
VS. Tezz aggro
these games are blurry as I was tired but he was playing many cheap artifacts, and using tezz ultimate for the win. I didn't stand a chance.
3 Buried Ruin
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Inkmoth Nexus
8 Island
// Creatures 25
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Frost Titan
4 Grand Architect
3 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Myr Battlesphere
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Spellskite
4 Treasure Mage
1 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Birthing Pod
1 Contagion Engine
4 Ponder
3 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
2 Into the Roil
3 Mana Leak
1 Mindslaver
2 Negate
1 Spine of Ish Sah
3 Spreading Seas
3 Stoic Rebuttal
I wasn't sure if I should post this in the G/x pod forum as the only green card is pod. It is sort of similar to kenny obergs (sp?) Podcaster. Thanks for any response.