Kolaghan's Command is optional, but it can generate aggressive card advantage for 1BR by destroying artifacts, Shocking targets, forcing discard and returning creature cards from the graveyard to the hand. Maelstrom Pulse is a bit expensive and slow, a sorcery costing 1BG, but it can hit any nonland permanent and all others with the same name (great against tokens). Green and black combine to form flexible removal with the likes of Abrupt Decay, an uncounterable instant that destroys any nonland permanent with CMC 3 or lower (1-3 copies).Īssassin's Trophy can hit a permanent of any CMC, but it does have a Path-style land tutor effect for the opponent.

With black mana, Jund can perform hand control via Inquisition of Kozilek (2-3 copies) and Thoughtseize (2-3 copies), and its burn comes from the famous Lightning Bolt (full playset). This deck relies heavily on merciless instants, sorceries and planeswlkers to grind down the enemy and make way for its creatures. Jund can go without it, but 1-2 copies can be helpful and generate a lot of advantage. This deck's spells are typically cheap, so the Confidant's life loss ability won't hurt too much.īloodbraid Elf, now unbanned, is an aggressive 3/2 with haste that can Cascade into nearly anything (0-3 copies), and Huntmaster of the Fells is a 2/2 Werewolf that can gain life, make tokens, deal damage to targets and transform into a 4/4 beater with trample.

Dark Confidant is a card-draw maniac in black, costing life points in exchange for more cards every single turn. Scavenging Ooze may appear as a two-or three-of, a mainboard graveyard hate card that also gains life and gets bigger (it also costs just 1G). With Jund's diverse cards and many removal spells, it should be easy to have a 4/5 or even 5/6 Tarmogoyf by turn four. It's cheap at 1G, and it scales up in size with each player's graveyard.

Jund's creatures are efficient and varied, and the central creature is Tarmogoyf, which will nearly always be a four-of. Related: Magic: The Gathering - Tarkir's Mardu Horde Clan, Explained

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