The New Jund Midrange(Journey + BNG Gameday Champ)

Standard* simplehands

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mattman243 says... #1

Such a great deck. I've been running my version of this for the past couple weeks and always top 8/top 4.

I was wondering. What do you do against burn? Usually, I'm dead by turn 6 and don't have much time to get anything out!

March 4, 2014 11:32 a.m.

simplehands says... #2

I side in duress and just hope for rakdos's return or reaper for hexproof and i havent lost a round against burn yet.

March 4, 2014 7:59 p.m.

LordOfDispair says... #3

I get that you are one of those people who likes to have every single dual possible in the deck, but you have way more red mana base than green and twice the green cards in this than red.

March 4, 2014 8:22 p.m.

donut888 says... #4

i think Dreadbore would be great

March 4, 2014 8:23 p.m.

simplehands says... #5

@lordofdispair the mana base is even so that all have all my colours instead of a pile of forests and a hand full of multi colour spells. Did u look at the pie chart.

@donut888 im always changing my mind on dreadbore because it being two mana. But at the moment i find instant speed to be very important in the meta

March 4, 2014 8:39 p.m.

Bigbadbear88 says... #6

Swap one of your Swamps or your Mountain for another forest, I found you had trouble occasionally getting a green out for Sylvan Primordial.

March 5, 2014 5:16 p.m.

Bigbadbear88 says... #7

I found that it had trouble getting enough out to stop my Boros aggro/burn deck, Pop a Solly. The mana curve might be a little high, I think Elvish Mystic would really add a lot to the deck.

March 5, 2014 5:23 p.m.

Bigbadbear88 says... #8

Overall a very strong deck though, with massive late game staying power. +1

March 5, 2014 5:24 p.m.

simplehands says... #9

After sideboarding 3x anger of the gods and 3x golgari charms that matchup is alot better for me with board wipes

March 5, 2014 9:17 p.m.

ockius says... #10

Awesome deck. I am trying to make something similar work. Considering Desecration Demon . Do you know what deck the rakdos aggro you talk about winning first is?

March 7, 2014 4 a.m.

simplehands says... #11

@ockius Desecration Demon was in my deck but is horrible on defense against any aggro deck so i went with reaper as a durable creature that gives value and can put you ahead.

The rakdos aggro deck is a more red deck with splash black for mogis, Dreadbore and Spike Jester . Its burn and haste with Legion Loyalist Ash Zealot Spike Jester Rakdos Shred-Freak Stormbreath Dragon and burn.

March 7, 2014 1:23 p.m.

RedSeries says... #12

Minor adjustment, but I feel you'd be better to run 4x Temple of Malice and 3x Temple of Abandon (You have it the other way around at the moment). My reasoning for this is you have only two double green cards (two Polukranos), but you have 4 double black (Hero's Downfall ) with more in side (Underworld Connections ).

Other than that, solid! Good job! +1

March 7, 2014 4:38 p.m.

simplehands says... #13

@redseries i like the dual lands as they are i rather witch around the basics

March 8, 2014 1:47 a.m.

Plaguejaw says... #14

Is there any way this deck could work with Xenagos, God of Revels + Corpsejack Menace ?

March 8, 2014 8:52 p.m.

simplehands says... #15

@plaguejaw Xenagos the god is more of a high creature aggro card and corpsejack is too but he needs synergy and there isnt in this deck so they wont be added in.

March 10, 2014 3:40 p.m.

Behgz says... #16

I'd like to see this ran in an event full of Top 8 decklists, like U/W control, Mono-Black devotion, and Mono-Blue devotion, and even G/R Monsters.

I see a lot of the wins you get at FNM are from less than top tier brews, the most recent event you posted results for included the following 4 archetypes, as listed by you;

Game 1: Minotaurs,

Game 2: Bug,

Game 3: Dega Midrange,

Game 4: American Control.

I would argue that none of those decks where Tier one, as well as argue that JUND monsters is as close to Tier 1 as you can get as a fairly renewed archetype to the meta, G/R is good, but I can see the appeal of going Jund, I have been hit with main deck rakdos return and it doesn't feel very good dumping my hand into the yard.

If you entered an event where all four matches were against Top Tier brews, I would be very interested to see the results, something like;

Game 1: G/R Monsters.

Game 2: Mono-Black Devotion.

Game 3: Mono-Blue Devotion.

Game 4: U/W control.


Clearly, going X-0 consecutive weeks in a row can't be denied, however if your meta is less than Top Tier, it brings context to an otherwise remarkable record.

March 10, 2014 3:58 p.m.

simplehands says... #17

@behgz did u look at my game day report it has three tier 1 decks that i beat (Mono black devotion more than once) and there are a few people at my local shop constructing U/W control and B/W midrange decks so i hope i can get a matchup with them and keep my streak going.

March 10, 2014 6:49 p.m.

donut888 says... #18

please help with my jund deck http://tappedout.net/users/donut888/

March 10, 2014 9:03 p.m.

Behgz says... #19

I did see, I also saw all the non-Tier 1 match-ups, including your most recent results from an event where you did not encounter a single Tier 1 deck. I'm just making an observation >.>

March 10, 2014 9:50 p.m.

ockius says... #20

What is a good plan against Esper control, selesnya aggro, and rakdos aggro? I played last nights fnm and got destroyed against those decks.

March 15, 2014 3:33 p.m.

donut888 says... #21

maybe Destructive Revelry to take out detention sphere

March 15, 2014 5:59 p.m.

Plaguejaw says... #22

@donut888 He already has 2 cards to deal with sphere: Abrupt Decay and Golgari Charm . I do like Destructive Revelry though.

March 15, 2014 6:15 p.m.

ockius says... #23

Yeah, the Detention Sphere wasn't the problem, but I couldn't get out creatures fast enough and he kept using Far / Away . Elspeth ended me every time, and he always had Syncopate and Dissolve to combat anything i did. Maybe it was just the luck of the draw.

March 16, 2014 5:49 a.m.

simplehands says... #24

You have to shut down their draw by removing their sphinxs revelation via thoutseize duress and even rakdos's return

March 16, 2014 2:27 p.m.

ockius says... #25

I like that plan, thanks. Have you tried Sire Of Insanity ?

March 16, 2014 4:12 p.m.

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