[Primer] - Jund Midrange

Modern Chasmolinker

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Kroxa, Foil Goyf & Updated Primer Coming Soon!! —April 1, 2020

Long time no going outside. I've taken this opportunity to focus on revamping this Primer to be more user friendly and more informative overall. In the mean time, I have really been enjoying Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger in playtesting. The card is a serious work horse. The ETB trigger along with the 6/6 body pushes this card over the top. The escape cost is minimal later in the game and being able to pitch it to Liliana of the Veil is all upside. Last but not least, I've backed off my dreams of getting a playset of Foil Future Sight Goyfs and have in the interim landed a set of UMA Foils instead. I'm excited for the day I can return to my LGS to sleeve this up and play it again.

I'll be releasing the new Primer over the next couple of weeks. I have some ideas to work out still and don't want to put anything out there until it's completely finished. To my TO friends/fans I'll be showing an early release of this before hand to get some feedback from the community so keep an eye out for that in your messages. Cheers everyone! Be safe.

LeMonado says... #1

What do you think of Nimble Mongoose in Jund? The question is always "What do you cut?" but you would know more about that than I.

June 5, 2019 3:05 p.m.

Chasmolinker says... #2

DarkStarStorm I really like Nimble Mongoose I just don't know if it's cut out for Modern right now. There really isn't anything to cut for it. Maybe a Scavenging Ooze , but the ability to exile an imposing Arclight Phoenix is a high priority in the current meta. If the deck takes a more aggressive approach than Mongoose would be a lot better. It might just be too slow in a deck that isn't built around filling the yard.

June 5, 2019 3:11 p.m.

LeMonado says... #3

Maybe it would be good if Traverse Shadow ever gets traction again. And who knows, Nimble Mongoose might be the traction that Traverse Shadow needed.

June 5, 2019 7:49 p.m.

Chasmolinker says... #4

Gurmag Angler doesn’t play nice with Threshold. But maybe the deck doesn’t run Angler in the new list.

June 5, 2019 7:59 p.m.

LeMonado says... #5

Gurmag also doesn't work that well with Delirium, though it's slightly better than Threshold in that regard. Either way Mongoose is a nice card to have in Modern.

June 5, 2019 8:06 p.m.

Fallentesla says... #6

Couple cards from Horizons that I was possibly thinking of for the sideboard as one of's are Force of Vigor and Collector Ouphe . Thoughts?

June 5, 2019 10:49 p.m.

Chasmolinker says... #7

Fallentesla If this Karn deck makes a lasting impression on the format. Force of Vigor will be crucial to stopping that deck. Aside from that it might be good against affinity. I’m not gonna dump Ancient Grudge just yet though as the 4 cmc hurts on Bob triggers.

Now Collector Ouphe is Jund’s Stony Silence . It dies to Galvanic Blast though so I think I’d rather have Ancient Grudge. Unless Karn, the Great Creator becomes a deck.

June 6, 2019 7:28 a.m.

LeMonado says... #8

Force of Vigor does not stop Mycosynth Lattice . It makes all of the cards in your hand colorless, meaning you are unable to pitch a green card to Force of Vigor 's alternative cost.

June 6, 2019 1:21 p.m.

Chasmolinker says... #9

Oh Wow..... Totally missed that.

June 6, 2019 2:17 p.m.

LeMonado says... #10

I did too, initially. Jund's best bet in that matchup is leaving up Assassin's Trophy mana and floating it in response to Mycosynth Lattice .

June 6, 2019 3:01 p.m.

DrkNinja says... #11

@Chasmolinker did you do your own CSS? It's gorgeous!

Also really feeling the deck man... I do think you should be playing the new Ouphe in your sideboard though, I'd cut that 4th Force of Despair for it personally. I also love that Cindervines tech against Storm and the like!

June 11, 2019 10:17 a.m.

Chasmolinker says... #12

DrkNinja Yes and No. The color scheme and background is my CSS thanks to some careful studying of FancyTuesday's tutorials and additional browsing the World Wide Web. The incredible card name format is from Wihito. There's links to both in the deck description as well as a copy of my semi-annotated stylesheet.

I do like Collector Ouphe . It's a lock for Rock SB's everywhere it's legal. Thanks for the input

June 11, 2019 12:34 p.m.

pokejerk20 says... #13

Hexdrinker looks really good in Jund and Rock at the moment. I'd consider putting it in, it's not quite as good as Goyf but it lets you have an uninteractive threat.

June 11, 2019 10:22 p.m.

Have you considered running one or 2 copies of Unearth? Or is it too cute in the long run?

June 23, 2019 12:55 a.m.

Chasmolinker says... #15

Heretic_Dragoon. I don’t think Unearth has a place in the deck. Cutting interaction for it doesn’t seem good

June 23, 2019 9:35 a.m.

Chasmolinker says... #16

Heretic_Dragoon I'm gonna try Unearth as a sideboard option for more grindy match-ups in place of Maelstrom Pulse .

June 27, 2019 1:59 p.m.

Chasmolinker Best of luck my dude!

June 27, 2019 9:39 p.m.

LeMonado says... #18

Is something wrong with TappedOut? The special formatting that this deck tech had isn't present.

June 27, 2019 9:51 p.m.

Chasmolinker says... #19

DarkStarStorm I've seen some oddities with the formatting over the life of this deck. I haven't noticed much as of late though. Save some card images from the Sideboard section spilling out of the accordion. But that seemed to be more on my end.

Everything seems good now. May have been a temporary update with the card format CSS as it is not all my own.

June 28, 2019 7:47 a.m.

EpicFreddi says... #20

Darn, I must've clicked on the wrong deck. I was not looking to play Jund in Modern. Anyway, have a good day Sir/Madam.

June 28, 2019 9:46 a.m.

Chasmolinker says... #21

Hahahaha EpicFreddi! Thanks for the love. Reminds me of the very first comment on this deck from leomlg9000

June 28, 2019 12:08 p.m.

LeMonado says... #22

Chasmolinker Whatever you did worked, since it is fixed now.

June 28, 2019 4:34 p.m.

I feel like with Wrenn and Six you are doing yourself a disservice to not be running Raven's crime. Problem is I have no idea what you would possibly remove to make room for it.

June 28, 2019 11:36 p.m.

Chasmolinker says... #24

MagicalLyricalNanoha It might be OK in place of a Thoughtseize or Inquisition of Kozilek . I’d have to test that and see how it performs. Perfect information is tough to beat

June 29, 2019 12:12 p.m.

I suspect Raven's Crime is really bad right now. Between Phoenix and Hogaak, there are a lot of decks which want to discard specific cards in their hand. You want your discard to pick away Stitcher's Supplier and Pyromancer Ascension , not Bridge from Below and Arclight Phoenix .

June 29, 2019 12:34 p.m.