buried alive phoenix jund

Modern BRG (Jund) Budget Burn Competitive

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Lands (20 min) (20)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mount Doom
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Spikefield Hazard  ^Flip
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

Buried alive phoenix engine (16)

• 4x Arclight Phoenix
• 4x Buried Alive
• 2x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fear of Missing Out
• 2x Highway Robbery
• 3x Profane Tutor

Burn engine (8)

• 2x Lightning Bolt
• 2x Monastery Swiftspear
• 3x Slickshot Show-Off
• 1x Unholy Heat

Jund interaction staples (7)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Tear Asunder
• 2x Thoughtseize

Free mana (9)

• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 4x Manamorphose
• 3x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pyretic Ritual

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Sideboard

Silver bullets (7)

• 2x Culling Ritual
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Meltdown
• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Generically good (5)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 2x Defense Grid
• 1x Dismember

Silver bullets anti thoughtseize and lightning bolt (3)

• 3x Leyline of Sanctity

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Maybeboard

Free casts if manamorphose finally gets banned try these like suspend (5)

• 1x Faithless Salvaging
• 1x Pitiless Carnage
• 1x Rift Bolt
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Strike it Rich

Mdfc lands (3)

• 1x Boggart Trawler  ^Flip
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Discard and draw creature (4)

• 1x Ashling, Flame Dancer
• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 1x Invasion of Ergamon  ^Flip
• 1x Rix Maadi Reveler

Green protection (4)

• 1x Commune with Nature
• 1x Defend the Rider
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Veil of Summer

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Oppressive mid range power or Jund with the disgusting synergy of MH3's buried alive with 4 arclight phoenix.

Note this is a budget competitive deck. Don't expect to win much because there's so much gy hate in the meta and sideboard.

This is the deck I personally own and toy with. As much as I hate how modern horizons ruined the creativity formerly in modern, MH3 finally made modern affordable. The nonland core of this deck is around $60 and its support is around $30.

The superb hand goes like this:

1. Land. Thoughtseize
2. Land. Desperate/pyretic ritual, Manamorphose getting 2 black mana, cast Buried Alive.
3. Bury alive 3 Arclight Phoenix.
4. Move to combat. Attack for 9 damage. T2.
5. Move to turn 3. with the prevelance of fetchlands in the format, another attack should end the game.

Otherwise, profane tutor, and the usual jund midrange staples will help secure the game to get a win.

I opted NOT to run the t2 win version. That version either wins by t3 or loses in my opinion as hands get clunky.

tips

• Mulligan hard until you get a win line: profane tutor or buried alive or dark confidant hands are all worth keeping.
• white control is the nightmare. Exiling the phoenixes is the most effective way to remove them. Side in a boardwipe against these.

2025 slick shot edit

The addition of Slickshot Show-Off has enabled a lot more damage and consistency, and even a t3 win.

A few t3 wins went as follows:

1. nothing / thoughtseize
2. profane tutor/ slick shot. 1 damage.
3. 3 instant/sorceries, including one buried alive (e.g. manamorphose, profane tutor) = 3 arclight phoenix= 9 damage. 3 slickshot triggers makes 7 damage. Total 16 damage. If including around 4 life lost to fetchlanda and a shockland, that is 20 damage.

2025 burn addition

The problem with buried alive phoenix is inconsistency due to gy hate and hand attacks.

I added a small burn engine to supplement it. The usual June engine of goyfs does not help it.

Date added	8 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 12 Rares 20 - 3 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.89
Tokens	Plot
Folders	Modern Decks I Did Not Make