I won't argue with Reid, because he is the best Jund player alive, but I feel like modern Jund wants main deck Tear Assunder. In early turns its hate for problematic stuff that you can't bolt, and by turn 4 it's a Vindicate.
Only 3 Ragavan is bad, to much graveyard hate in the Sideboard. Not a good List and only a decent deck, you lost against the Tier 1 Decks. And you have won against some brew and Burn (Burn is a easy matchup for Jund)
It’s Reid, he’s mastered the midrange/high interaction archetypes. It fits him so he’s always tinkering and tuning these decks, sometimes seeing his DL I find things counterintuitive but once you step back and see the gameplay it makes sense. 8 discards + lily? That seems excessive…oh wait just discard them in late games to lily, oh obvious to me now, but not before. Keep up the great content Harry
The Idea of Streetwraith in burn is to thin your deck. So you're basically playing with a 56 card deck instead of 60. Burn rarely cares about its own life total. In Burn you either get your opponent to 0 or you lose, so Streetwraith works fine as long as its not Burn vs Burn.
Just looked it up on MtG Top 8. The Streetwraith Burn player wasn't playing Burn. They were on Death's Shadow and just didn't draw any Death's Shadows. The Crash Through @7:04 is a major tell. With the Soul-Scour Mage, that deck is looking to play a cheap creature on turn one or two and then follow it up with a bunch of prowess triggers or dropping their life low enough that Temur Battle Rage is lethal as early as turn three.
Your concessions in that creativity match felt very premature imo, like you were definitely behind in both situations but I don't think they were unwinnable
Pretty sure you don't play Lilly game 2 against the creativity player and just play stone brain plus bolt. The bolt to kill the tef. Then discard I'm pretty sure goyf and play lily next turn to kill archon. Then they get one more turn to find archon again or to answer the second stone brain.
Ya, and even if they do combo, you can make them sac the archon with Liliana (which you could have just done on the next turn instead of scooping even on your current line).
I was thinking Seasoned Pyro and ditch Command+Kroxxa. We can sac a token for Archon and Lily comes down the following turn to answer Archon and Pyro to kill Tef3.
The thought process, or at least when gitaxian probe was legal, was to play less optimal cards and cheat on the mana base. Burn commonly needs to use six burn spells as, historically, fetch shock or just shock land takes your opponent to 18. These built used to play fewer creatures and went all in on the burn spell plan; some tinkers went three colours with this plan playing Bump as an extra three-damage spell while keeping the deck as fast as possible. The height of this idea was when treasure cruise was legal in the format of blue burn. The reason to or not to play this typically boils down to a meta. If you're playing a lot of combo decks and it's about racing, having the fastest kill could be involved with playing fewer "dead" cards. Regarding Reid's deck, it overall seems solid, I wouldn't question a Jund Master, and I've been a student of his for years and learned a lot from watching him on tournament coverage or his writing. I'm surprised Jund wins a lot in the current Modern Meta, but as a long-time rock control player, it does make me happy! Great Video. I really enjoyed it!
Watching back the few moments you showed, the burn player was also playing Mishra's Bauble (I think), which adds to the idea of trimming on lands and hoping for some consistency and burning the face at all costs.
Gitaxian Probe is significantly better than Street Wraith because you gain information. I played Treasure Cruise burn when it was legal and the information was hardly relevant, so it was better to run 0 probes and instead have more fetchlands. I ran 12 fetches at a time when they were very expensive, so the deck cost about as much as a top tier deck.
3:50 I would have played the stone brain and bolt teferi. The brain incentivizes them to play a creativity if they have one, but we dont get too blown out if they do because we dont sacrifice anything and can discard kroxa, and on the following turn we still have lili to make them sac it. And if they dont go for it we threaten to brain them next turn. Instead, playing lili on t3 accomplished very little in front of opp's full hand, and made a potential archon even juicer cause we have to sac our pw and only current removal for it.
I would have played Spyro, discarding Kroxa + bolt. Then the next turn play lotv and edict their archon. Interesting position and could have played it a lot of different ways
Most likely as a deck thinner since Burn is going to go faster than most decks and doesn't care about its own life total. I was also thinking Death's Shadow and the opponent just didn't draw any. Going fetch -> shock -> Streethwraith -> red 1-drop into turn 2 Death's Shadow seems decent enough. edit: Yeah just looked it up on MtG Top 8. The decks with Crash Through and Streetwraith are mostly Death's Shadow variants. Opponent likely just didn't draw Death's Shadow and didn't need to because of two prowess creatures.
I've been playing burn for 2 years and the only reason to play street wraith is more consistency in your deck, or maybe some crazy tech like pulse of the forge
The 2 Leylines in the sideboard should either be 4 Leylines or 0 Leylines. The whole point of the card is getting it on the field on turn 0 and you need 4 for that to work. If you can't spare the extra 2 slots, I would remove it for other graveyard hate.
8:08 The synergy is you lose 2 life and draw a card. You’re basically paying 2-8 life a game to have a 56 card deck. Not worth imo, but that’s likely the logic
Very dumb loss playing lotv g1-2 when your seasoned pyro is the best play there vs them potentially having an archon on curve, then you just kill it with liliana after they cast creativity
I agree the better play was Spyro, you have Liliana after they creativity or if they don’t, hopefully you’ll draw 1 land in 3 draws in order to stone brain + activate
@@gabrielmurillo3084 right… like what does playing Liliana there even do. He doesn’t even explain what his reasoning for that play is. I have been playing lotv since it’s first printing, and it’s almost always stronger to hold onto until they walk into a situation where it will punish them if she is in play. Running it out into a blank board while they have a full hand typically results in her being ignored while they kill you or they just remove her on their turn with pEnding or similar. She is great bait, but in this situation, the dude played directly into the opponents deck with zero follow up. Massive punt
I have been playing mardu midrange in modern for awhile and found Lili kinda bad. She only hurts you if wrenn and six is on the board so I am surprised to see so many lilis in the list. Maybe wrenn and six's popularity has dropped more than I thought but I am not sure.
What do you think of this list?
Not a fan of Jund personally but it seems really solid. Are we still going to get to see a 1v1 with Reid? (you on UW control and him on this deck)
Love jund and think it's pretty good. I prefer the deck with saga and a companion, though it's still sweet like that.
I won't argue with Reid, because he is the best Jund player alive, but I feel like modern Jund wants main deck Tear Assunder.
In early turns its hate for problematic stuff that you can't bolt, and by turn 4 it's a Vindicate.
Only 3 Ragavan is bad, to much graveyard hate in the Sideboard.
Not a good List and only a decent deck, you lost against the Tier 1 Decks. And you have won against some brew and Burn (Burn is a easy matchup for Jund)
run afoul in the sideboard
It’s Reid, he’s mastered the midrange/high interaction archetypes. It fits him so he’s always tinkering and tuning these decks, sometimes seeing his DL I find things counterintuitive but once you step back and see the gameplay it makes sense. 8 discards + lily? That seems excessive…oh wait just discard them in late games to lily, oh obvious to me now, but not before. Keep up the great content Harry
The Idea of Streetwraith in burn is to thin your deck. So you're basically playing with a 56 card deck instead of 60. Burn rarely cares about its own life total. In Burn you either get your opponent to 0 or you lose, so Streetwraith works fine as long as its not Burn vs Burn.
Yeah basically like how in Yugioh people were running 3 Upstart Goblin to run a 37 card deck.
It also lets you stock your graveyard for underworld breach and you can cast it off a Manamorphose if you're on a Prowess variant
It also acts as an easy creature for Delirium if they are playing DRC
Wouldn't Mishra's Bauble make more sense though? Unless they run both of course.
@@lordflashheart3741 street wraith can draw you a card at anytime instant speed. The effect is not the same although they are similar.
Just looked it up on MtG Top 8. The Streetwraith Burn player wasn't playing Burn. They were on Death's Shadow and just didn't draw any Death's Shadows. The Crash Through @7:04 is a major tell. With the Soul-Scour Mage, that deck is looking to play a cheap creature on turn one or two and then follow it up with a bunch of prowess triggers or dropping their life low enough that Temur Battle Rage is lethal as early as turn three.
The Burn with the Street Wraiths may have been playing Dragon Rage Channeler. Love Jund, it is amazing the variety you can make out of it.
Keep in mind that its usually an idea to stone brain creativity since most creativity players are prepared for necromentia effects
Your concessions in that creativity match felt very premature imo, like you were definitely behind in both situations but I don't think they were unwinnable
Pretty sure you don't play Lilly game 2 against the creativity player and just play stone brain plus bolt. The bolt to kill the tef. Then discard I'm pretty sure goyf and play lily next turn to kill archon. Then they get one more turn to find archon again or to answer the second stone brain.
Ya, and even if they do combo, you can make them sac the archon with Liliana (which you could have just done on the next turn instead of scooping even on your current line).
I was thinking Seasoned Pyro and ditch Command+Kroxxa. We can sac a token for Archon and Lily comes down the following turn to answer Archon and Pyro to kill Tef3.
Great content as always! I think it would be cool if you tried some super budget legacy decks (like
The thought process, or at least when gitaxian probe was legal, was to play less optimal cards and cheat on the mana base. Burn commonly needs to use six burn spells as, historically, fetch shock or just shock land takes your opponent to 18. These built used to play fewer creatures and went all in on the burn spell plan; some tinkers went three colours with this plan playing Bump as an extra three-damage spell while keeping the deck as fast as possible.
The height of this idea was when treasure cruise was legal in the format of blue burn. The reason to or not to play this typically boils down to a meta. If you're playing a lot of combo decks and it's about racing, having the fastest kill could be involved with playing fewer "dead" cards.
Regarding Reid's deck, it overall seems solid, I wouldn't question a Jund Master, and I've been a student of his for years and learned a lot from watching him on tournament coverage or his writing. I'm surprised Jund wins a lot in the current Modern Meta, but as a long-time rock control player, it does make me happy!
Great Video. I really enjoyed it!
Watching back the few moments you showed, the burn player was also playing Mishra's Bauble (I think), which adds to the idea of trimming on lands and hoping for some consistency and burning the face at all costs.
Gitaxian Probe is significantly better than Street Wraith because you gain information. I played Treasure Cruise burn when it was legal and the information was hardly relevant, so it was better to run 0 probes and instead have more fetchlands. I ran 12 fetches at a time when they were very expensive, so the deck cost about as much as a top tier deck.
3:50 I would have played the stone brain and bolt teferi. The brain incentivizes them to play a creativity if they have one, but we dont get too blown out if they do because we dont sacrifice anything and can discard kroxa, and on the following turn we still have lili to make them sac it. And if they dont go for it we threaten to brain them next turn. Instead, playing lili on t3 accomplished very little in front of opp's full hand, and made a potential archon even juicer cause we have to sac our pw and only current removal for it.
I would have played Spyro, discarding Kroxa + bolt.
Then the next turn play lotv and edict their archon.
Interesting position and could have played it a lot of different ways
The classic Jund 5/0 aka 3/2
I guess Streetwraith is a weird deck thiner? i have no idea honestly
Most likely as a deck thinner since Burn is going to go faster than most decks and doesn't care about its own life total. I was also thinking Death's Shadow and the opponent just didn't draw any. Going fetch -> shock -> Streethwraith -> red 1-drop into turn 2 Death's Shadow seems decent enough.
edit: Yeah just looked it up on MtG Top 8. The decks with Crash Through and Streetwraith are mostly Death's Shadow variants. Opponent likely just didn't draw Death's Shadow and didn't need to because of two prowess creatures.
I just realized I haven't commented on a video in a while, gotta boost the algorithm for this great video
The Street Wraith is probably just a free card draw outlet
I've been playing burn for 2 years and the only reason to play street wraith is more consistency in your deck, or maybe some crazy tech like pulse of the forge
Personally I’m liking 3 bumping it up to 4 always seems a bit excessive to me
The 2 Leylines in the sideboard should either be 4 Leylines or 0 Leylines. The whole point of the card is getting it on the field on turn 0 and you need 4 for that to work. If you can't spare the extra 2 slots, I would remove it for other graveyard hate.
I would add a 4th Wrenn and Six to the list. It's the best card in the deck and the strategy should hinge around him.
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My guess with wraith is that it's burn. Your life total barely matters when you're playing burn, and having a 56 card deck is a small edge
8:08 The synergy is you lose 2 life and draw a card. You’re basically paying 2-8 life a game to have a 56 card deck. Not worth imo, but that’s likely the logic
So did people learn to beat it or did you not play it well or what’s your final analysis?
Day one of asking for a triskaidekaphobia deck please!
That's the old 56 card burn 🔥 😐
good stuff!
He aight
Play a deck that uses tunnel vision to get a card to the bottom then mill them to their last card
Jund 'em out!!
Would one of you kind folks point out to me the name of the outro song?
Very dumb loss playing lotv g1-2 when your seasoned pyro is the best play there vs them potentially having an archon on curve, then you just kill it with liliana after they cast creativity
I agree the better play was Spyro, you have Liliana after they creativity or if they don’t, hopefully you’ll draw 1 land in 3 draws in order to stone brain + activate
@@gabrielmurillo3084 right… like what does playing Liliana there even do. He doesn’t even explain what his reasoning for that play is. I have been playing lotv since it’s first printing, and it’s almost always stronger to hold onto until they walk into a situation where it will punish them if she is in play. Running it out into a blank board while they have a full hand typically results in her being ignored while they kill you or they just remove her on their turn with pEnding or similar. She is great bait, but in this situation, the dude played directly into the opponents deck with zero follow up. Massive punt
Reid would have took game one down
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I have been playing mardu midrange in modern for awhile and found Lili kinda bad. She only hurts you if wrenn and six is on the board so I am surprised to see so many lilis in the list. Maybe wrenn and six's popularity has dropped more than I thought but I am not sure.
Premature concessions. My first downvote ever
Jund em out
Pretty good Jund 5-0 there.
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I'm so disappointed that he's playing ragavan. The card is a plague on modern.
What a click bait, jaja