Death's Shadow Meets Griselbrand in a Bar
Modern Aggro BRG (Jund) Competitive Jank Reanimator Theme/Gimmick
Land (18)
- 1x Blood Crypt
- 4x Bloodstained Mire
- 1x Forest
- 2x Overgrown Tomb
- 1x Stomping Ground
- 1x Swamp
- 4x Verdant Catacombs
- 4x Wooded Foothills
Planeswalker (3)
Sorcery (17)
- 1x Cathartic Reunion
- 4x Faithless Looting
- 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
- 4x Thoughtseize
- 3x Time of Need
- 4x Traverse the Ulvenwald
Instant (6)
Creature (13)
- 4x Death's Shadow
- 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
- 2x Griselbrand
- 4x Street Wraith
- 2x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Artifact (3)
Sideboard
Instant (11)
Sorcery (2)
Creature (2)
Maybeboard
"The deck is blisteringly fast"
-Bob Huang, on Grishoalbrand
"What this deck defines is raw power: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Flexibility and Explosion."
-FlyingDelver on Death's Shadow Jund
Griselbrand Instant Reanimator meets Death's Shadow. This deck is all the raw power of two explosive decks in modern wrapped up into one giant powerhouse. The deck runs a variety of utility cards that either let you play large low-mana threats, or combo out huge, game-ending threats. You lose very little by running both things together, and gain a whole new angle of attack.
Death's Shadow: The namesake of modern's most powerful deck, this huge beater comes down on turn 2-3 for one mana and can quickly grow to over ten power.
Tasigur, the Golden Fang: While not as fancy as its bigger brother, this Legendary banana-lover can come down on turn 2, and has a substantial body and a relevant activated ability should we get pathed. Here's where things start to get interesting, however; this boy can get tutored for by Time of Need...
Griselbrand:...and so can this guy. Quickly getting this guy into our graveyard (via a Faithless Looting, self Thoughseize , or Liliana of the Veil activation and then quickly back out (via Goryo's Vengeance), this guy can draw us upwards of 21 cards and attack our opponent for 7 in the air by turn 2!
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: She's big, she makes our opponent sack 6 permanents, and she can be reanimated by some instant-speed trickery. What's not to love? We can only get her out by turn 3, but once we do, our opponent will be back to turn 0.
Traverse the Ulvenwald: The first of our two tutors, this one helps us get lands in a pinch (which lets us get by with only 18 lands), and helps us find whatever-sized creature we are in the market for.
Time of Need: Already talked about in the threats section, this card lets find a reanimation target or a Tasigur, the Golden Fang.
Goryo's Vengeance: The only two-mana reanimation spell in modern, this spell allows us to pump out huge early creatures. Also fits in with the Legendary Creatures theme.
Faithless Looting: Draws us cards, fills our graveyard for all of the ways to abuse it.
Cathartic Reunion: Bigger Faithless Looting.
Street Wraith: Helps us lose life faster and fills up the graveyard.
Mishra's Bauble: Gets an artifact in the graveyard for cheap, and, if we have too many cards from a Griselbrand, lets us hold cards on the battlefield instead of in hand.
Thoughtseize: Let's us interact with opponents, lose life, and even get our own Griselbrand, what's not to like here?
Inquisition of Kozilek: Its like Thoughtseize, but worse!
Liliana of the Veil: She's discard, a different card type, and a removal spell all in one!
Fatal Push: The best removal spell in modern behind maybe Path to Exile.
Terminate: Another removal spell option.
Abrupt Decay: Versatile removal spell that an kill creatures or Grafdigger's Cage or Rest in Peace.
Ancient Grudge: Kills Grafdigger's Cages and helps against Affinity.
Anger of the Gods : The anti-Dredge card. This thing also hits Elves and Zoo, and other random decks.
Collective Brutality: The all-star against Burn, this card also helps against Storm, Ad Nauseam, and anything else that requires more discard. Also a discard outlet.
Fulminator Mage: This card is the trump card against Eldrazi-Tron, which we have a tough time against. If I could find room to run more of these in sideboard, I would.
Kolaghan's Command : Versatility in card form. Return a threat, shrink a hand (or discard a Griselbrand), kill an artifact (Grafdigger's Cage!), and/or kill a small creature. This card comes in against a lot of match-ups.
Nature's Claim: This is how we kill Leyline of the Void. There are better sideboard cards to run in this slot, but otherwise we can't beat a Leyline.
Surgical Extraction: Sometimes, we can just get combo decks or decks with a small number of threats. Very good directly after a discard spell.
Terminate: Just more removal.
Thank you for taking the time to look at my deck and read my description, it took a while to do. I will report how games go, as I play them, and have plans to write a match-up guide once I figure out the match-ups. For now, you can use the Death's Shadow Jund primer as a guide for match-ups. I would love it if you commented and +1 Upvoted!
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| Legality | This deck is not Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 10 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 10 Rares 13 - 1 Uncommons 6 - 4 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.55 |
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