Jund Midrange: Anathemancer, Bloodbraid Elf and Maelstrom Pulse win games.

Friday Night Fights

It is official, Jund colors are good. Anybody looking at the metagame with a discerning eye can see the possibilities of the colors red, green and black. This is why most of the new Alara Reborn inspired decks run those colors. Also, when 5 of the top 8 players at my 60 man FNM were playing some form of Jund Midrange, I start thinkin’.

Damn, Chapin is right again. Anathemancer and Bloodbraid Elf are that good.

The best part about the Jund showing is the deck that took home the money was designed by me and my brother, who piloted it to victory.

Here is the Jund Mid-Range we built, which I have nicknamed the KADA deck.

Jund Mid-Range (KADA), by Colin & Morgan Merry

Creatures
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Anathemancer
4 Bloobraid Elf
3 Broodmate Dragon
2 Chameleon Colossus
2 Shriekmaw
2 Cloudthresher
Sorceries
4 Maelstrom Pulse
Instants
4 Terminate
2 Jund Charm
2 Magma Spray
2 Makeshift Mannequin
Basic Land
4 Mountain
2 Swamp
1 Forest
Non-Basic Land
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Savage Lands
3 Ghitu Encampment
2 Fire-lit Thicket
2 Graven Cairns
3 Karplusan Forest

Sideboard
3 Thought Hemorrhage
3 Stillmoon Cavalier
3 Volcanic Fallout
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Slave to Bolas
4 Blightning

Several things about this deck.

First of all, KADA stands for “kill-all death-all”, a phrase a childhood friend of mine used when we were small children to describe something that caused devastation on a massive scale.

Ex: “Quick, use your kill-all death-all spell on those zombies!”

Second, the deck is an amalgamation of the Jund Mana Ramp Mike Flores was working on at Five with Flores and the Jund Aggro suggested by Patrick Chapin several weeks ago on StarCity Games. Basically, my brother wanted to run something with massive amounts of creature kill and a few win conditions. However, it is hard to win without some bodies on the table these days, and resilient finishers are hard to come by. Even 5CC ran with some muscle. We decided to stick with the overload of kill, but adopted more of a mid range solution as far as creatures went.

Here is a quick breakdown of the deck.

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