Running Modern Jund

Art Credit: WotC & Seb McKinnon This week, Assassin's Trophy was spoiled for the new Guild of Ravnica set. There have been thousands of words written already about how much of an impact this card will have, but I'd like to share some of my thoughts about it which I think are importantly different from what I have read so far. But first! A couple friends and I went to GP Detroit this past weekend and got our collective butt kicked, going (I think?) 1-6-1. Ouch. I brought traverse shadow, splashing white in the main for lingering souls, and siding a watery grave and two stubborn denials. The deck felt good. Lack of threat density did me in a couple times, but otherwise the deck felt fine . More on how it might have felt great later. My matchups were (in roughly the right order): Bant Spirits, BG Elves, Blue Moon, Eldrazi Tron, GB Tron, Classic Affinity, GW Value Town, and Hardened Scales Affinity. I was running hotter than the sun in the first two rounds, takin...

Art Credit: Victor Adame Minguez & WotC This is a follow up to last post where I mentioned I was switching from classic Jund to Traverse Shadow to scratch the midrange/modern black itch until further notice. Here's the list I ran at a Modern Monday last week: ------------ 4 verdent catacombs, 4 polluted delta, 3 bloodstained mire 2 overgrown tomb, 1 watery grave, 1 blood crypt, 1 breeding pool 1 swamp, 1 forest 4 street wraith, 4 mishra's bauble, 4 traverse the ulvenwald 4 death's shadow, 4 tarmogoyf, 1 snapcaster mage, 1 tasigur, the golden fang 4 thoughtseize, 2 inquisition of kozilek, 2 collective brutality 3 stubborn denial, 2 temur battle rage 3 fatal push, 1 nameless inversion, 1 abrupt decay, 2 dismember Sideboard: 2 surgical extraction, 2 liliana, the last hope, 2 ancient grudge, 1 hurkyl's recall, 1 hazoret the fervent, 1 snapcaster mage, 1 scavenging ooze, 1 shriekmaw, 1 reclamation sage, 1 bontu's last reckoni...