Running Modern Jund

Image Credit: Todd Lockwood, Kev Walker, & WotC I am no Frank Karsten, so I won't pretend to be proficient in the hypergeometric calculations required to say truly insightful things about card choice and deck-building minutia. However, I have played a lot of jund, and I have spent a LOT of time brewing with jund, so that has to count for something. I have a hypothesis about removal suites in modern midrange decks. Namely, that consistency  is king, and breadth is important, but quickly yields diminishing returns. But finding sufficient evidence  for this hypothesis would take waaaay more testing than I could ever do. So I'll let you readers do that while I just present my logical case for consistency over breadth. So let's begin. *** We're talking about dedicated removal here, which I will define as cards that are for changing the  board state . Ideally, a piece of removal removes an opponent's board-based card advantage, and finishes the tr...

Image Credit: WotC & Ryan Barger First of all, I'd like to point out that my predictions from last blog about how the unbans would affect the meta are shaping up to be true. Still early yet, but Jace has certainly proven highly par , in the shells that he has be tried in, and BBE is powerful, particularly in Jund, but not overwhelmingly so. Secondly, I think the current Jund lists running around are not ideal. People are trying toooooo hard to put 3-drops in for BBE cascade hits. Let's review the text for cascade: Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less . You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.) The first bolded section ends up meaning this: you can't miss . You can hit a spell that isn't useful, but you can't hit a spell you can't cast. The bolded "may" means that you never hav...