He included 4 Geralf’s Messengers over Kitchen Finks for added percentage points in the mirror match, and Messenger does this quite well. This list is a bit different than normal Jund lists, and I chose it because it’s the list Cedric Phillips has been running in Modern Dailies while streaming. Often you look at an opener and say ‘well this sucks if he has discard, but if I mulligan I’ll be even worse against discard.’ When I playtested Scapeshift against it I felt almost hopeless, as I could only ever play when he let me, and being able to consistently cast Inquisition of Kozilek and strip my two-drop ramp spell made many of my hands very bad very quickly. I like this deck a lot because of all the 1-mana hand disruption. If your deck doesn’t have reasonable game against Jund, then you need to seriously reconsider your options. Jund is public enemy #1, similar to Pro Tour Nagoya with Tempered Steel. Oftentimes Tron can just produce a Karn Liberated or Wurmcoil Engine before the red player has enough mana to cast Sowing Salt, rendering it useless. The only truly effective sideboard card against this deck is Sowing Salt, and it costs four. This deck, like many others, has access to sideboard Ancient Grudge. Once it’s down you can’t really mount an offense to try to win before they can recover from the Blood Moon, and on top of that I lose a number of games to a Wurmcoil Engine. Oblivion Stone gives you serious trouble, as they can cast it off all Mountains. You basically never get to just cast a Blood Moon and watch them flounder with no outs. Logical thinking would tell you that Blood Moon is an awesome sideboard card against this deck, but in my experience it’s actually underwhelming. So, simply by coincidence this deck is decent against Jund. Pyroclasm is a great answer to Dark Confidant, and Relic of Progenitus can handle Tarmogoyf. It has access to Pyroclasm and Relic of Progenitus, which, while unassuming, do quite a bit in this metagame. It’s not a stretch to say that it can assemble Urzatron every single game. It’s the only deck in the format with this kind of consistency (note: all 4-ofs) and reliable search. Red/green Tron is one of the most polarizing decks in the format, because it tries to fight the game on an axis that basically no other deck can compete with. I have a pretty good handle on the format so far, and I’m going to provide a run down on some of the top decks, and why I think they are performing as well as they are. I figured it would be good to give everyone some insight into my starting point for Modern, which so far has only been my prep for the Players Championship and grinding it out on Magic Online. Unfortunately, this is going to be my last article until after the Pro Tour, because tomorrow I leave for California to start my preparation.
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