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Yesterday I posted an article on building Jund Midrange for Ravnica Allegiance Standard. Today I’m incorporating feedback from that article and taking another crack at it.

I’m not going to reiterate the card descriptions from yesterday’s article, but may add more here if I end up discussing any that didn’t show up there.

There are three major points that I got out of the discussion on yesterday’s article:

Don’t get greedy on the mana base (curve and color).

The explore shell/package is too good not to include.

Ramp.

Today I’ve decided to start from an explore shell with Llanowar Elves for creature-based ramp, and then take it in two different directions. First, we’ll look at a G/B/r build that basically takes Golgari Midrange from current Standard and splashes Red for cards like Gruul Spellbreaker and Domri, Chaos Bringer, then we’ll look at a G/R/b build that focuses more on ramping up to bigger creatures and splashing Black for removal and Midnight Reaper (thanks to redditor /u/Milskidasith for pointing me in this direction).

Here is the shell we’re starting from:

Creatures

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Merfolk Branchwalker

3 Wildgrowth Walker

3 Jadelight Ranger

Planeswalkers

2 Vivien Reid

Sideboard

2 Deathgorge Scavenger

2 Thrashing Brontodon

After adding in cards that fit well into one build or the other, I end up with two (quite similar, but subtly different) decks, as listed below (they both end up being riffs on Golgari Midrange from current Standard). I think that these can be pulled further in two different directions, but I was being a bit conservative at this time.

RNA Jund Midrange (G/B/r)

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RNA Jund Midrange (G/R/b)

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Do you prefer one of these builds over the other? How would you change these to set them more apart from one another, or in general? What would you do differently in the sideboards?

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Peace.

Joseph Eddy is a Father, Husband, Son, Brother, Software Developer, and Gamer. Magic is his favorite hobby, and he’s looking forward to seeing you all on Arena. He streams Magic Arena on a weekly basis (or more), but currently is unable to keep to a set schedule.