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Too many television show references?<\/p>\n

Hey! It’s Chris Adraneda again. I’ll be leaving for Grand Prix Chicago soon and wanted to drop some thoughts before I make the trip home. I am 99% sure I’m playing Jund since it has a really good game against the field and is very resilient. At the same time I don’t know if I’m good enough to beat the mirror match every other round. When it comes to the mirror match, obviously the better player will win a majority of the time. As a lot of players at my local shop know…I’m pretty bad at Magic: The Gathering. And they keep reminding me that I’m the guy that forgot Inkmoth Nexus<\/a> has flying and let a Snapcaster Mage<\/a> block it. I’m the guy that thought Diregraf Captain<\/a> gives ALL my zombies death touch AND convinced my opponent of this (in both instances the format was brand new AND my cards are almost always in a Foreign language. Ugh).<\/p>\n

Truth of the matter is I’m pretty bad at this game. I don’t play enough. I don’t practice enough. Being a family man can really hinder a player’s addiction to Magic. Between soccer practices, bed time, bath time, birthday parties, and making lunches, Magic becomes the last of my priorities. All excuses aside, when I’m at the Grand Prix I just have to slow down, concentrate and see every angle of play as best as I can.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I will be playing the mirror a lot at the Grand Prix. A lot. This fact is really causing me to doubt my deck choice since I hate playing mirror matches. I hate seeing all the same cards across the table being used to savagely beat me to death. At heart I’m a rogue deck builder. Historically I’ve prided myself on trying to break bad cards and trying to make them good, i.e. Worldheart Phoenix<\/a> in a 5-Color Control deck (c’mon! recurring 4\/4 flyers!), Kuldotha Phoenix<\/a> in a Big Red deck (see a trend here?), e.g. I have been wanting to build a Jund styled midrange deck but not be playing Jund per se. The past few days I have really been thinking about what makes Jund so damn powerful?<\/p>\n

The answers are easy. Disruption. Removal. Big threats. Inherent card advantage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a deck that I used to play that has all of these strengths. The difficult part is finding a way to make it Modern playable. I’ve taken a shot.\u00a0Here is what I’m talking about:<\/p>\n

GOLD DECK WINS<\/h4><\/div><\/div>