Pauper Jund Dredge

by TheSwarmer on 04 February 2024

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

My take on the Dread Return deck. I think 14 lands is too low, Crawling Infestation is too slow, 4 Gnaw is necessary because of mono red, 3 Lotleth Giants are enough for games devoid of graveyard hate, and running 1 mountain and 1 Oliphaunt is necessary for games 2 & 3 due to just how impactful Ancient Grudge and Breath Weapon are.

I am currently experimenting with Exhume. The rationale is that the explosiveness the card provides is worth sacrificing:
1 Gnaw (which in some matchups does less than nothing)
1 Triton (which mills the fewest cards out of our 2-drops and is often cut when sideboarding.
1 Acorn Harvest as the card is rather slow, something we rarely want to draw, and the first thing to get boarded out against many decks, mono-red included.
1 Forest - running 15 as opposed to 16 lands increases the number of 0-land hands by 1.9%.

A turn 2 exhume is simply game over against some decks. A late-game exhume can also come unexpecedly where the opponent assumed a single piece of counter magic would be sufficient to prevent a lethal reanimation for example.

The sideboard is geared towards beating aggro decks with Ray of Revelation existing solely to blow up All that Glitters. The reason for this is that the deck already extremely good against slower and midrangy decks because even if you get your graveyard blown up thrice you can still easily pull through by reanimating and hardcasting 6 drops on one or two key turns.

The fact that some 36% of your lands are in fact not lands but creatures that end the game on their own in 4 turns flat means the deck is extremely resilient and can win long grindy games with relative ease.

How to Play

You play sub-optimally statted creatures on curve while developing your gameplan which is quite literally just fully agreeing with the flavor text on Lotleth Giant and trading the small and skittering for the large and looming, dealing lethal damage in the process.

The deck also comes with a built in plan B in the form of casting 6 drops, something that comes up very often and usually translates into a win in long games as these creatures take up the deck space that lands occupy in our opponent's library.

Deck Tags

  • Pauper
  • Jund
  • Dredge
  • Reanimator
  • Midrange

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

0026118

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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