Modern Boomer Jund | Reid Duke

[@WilhelmScreamer]

I really love that boomer is a recognized as a distinct class of deck

[@kikimdo]

I just really hate the name

[@Calibrex_Gaming]

@@kikimdo nothing wrong with it. It’s a term to differentiate a time period. You have a tainted definition of the word because of social media and the new generation attempting to use it as slang.

[@maximus574]

@@Calibrex_Gaming hard agree 👍

[@Luke_Powers]

@@Calibrex_Gaming The term that differentiates a time period is the slang though. They're using the slang here. This deck isn't from the Boomer era. How does your comment have four likes?

[@Calibrex_Gaming]

@@Luke_Powersnever heard of the term baby boomer? Not only is it a derivation of the boom in births but also It’s a generation name (like X, Y, millennials, etc). And secondly, when looking at US generations, this MTG deck is from an earlier time just like how baby boomer is the same.

[@Serouzo]

I think this is the happiest I've seen Reid Duke in a Jund video, celebrating his good cascades

[@terraqueo89]

1:06:35 I love how happy he gets with the bloodbraid into pillage!

[@arutzuro2555]

You know the products have gone crazy when "boomer" Jund has Modern Horizons cards.

[@andreabaj5529]

Jund by definition is a “best cards in BGR colors with minimal synergy”. If all the best cards in the format were all from 5 years ago it would mean that the game is dead.

[@CraftyChicken91]

@@andreabaj5529 they hated Jesus, for he spoke the truth.

[@NathanJ666]

Thank you for moving the 2nd Ultimate Guard text to the bottom right

[@jhunter123ful]

24:50 I think the argument for plusing Liliana here is very strong. Ulting lili is not playing around a removal spell because you have to draw a threat in order for ulting to be good and that threat is pretty much always going to die to the same spell that lili would (prismatic ending). Sometimes they even have something that doesn't kill lili but does kill your threat like a solitude or a jace/teferi bounce if you draw it later than the next turn. Ulting is a way to play around the second blue mana getting jace into play but either way you have to draw a threat so imo keeping lili around is better

[@clancyjames585]

Agreed I was thinking this. And he got punished. His reasoning was thinking "how many answers to Lili does he have" but Reid did not think "how do I lose if I ultimate Lili" - and clearly there are ways.

[@IntegralKing]

23:55 -- + Lily That seemed odd to me. He has 5 cards in hand, it hurts him much less. And if there's a verdict incoming, K Command would be perfect to scoop up the BBElf. Additionally, K Command is always a 2-for-1, so he's losing let's say 0.5 resources, you're losing 1.5 resources, all for a Lily point of loyalty. And Lily's at 5 already, so you can edict 2 more elementals on the way down. Yeah, all in all, I would have ignored Lily that turn

[@artoosala]

I agree. The Verdict was coming for sure and KCommand would have helped to keep on the pressure. Obviously things might still gone differently without the land flood.

[@SnapD24]

I completely agree with you. That's pretty much how I thought of it, but he had his reasons. I just wouldn't have bet on the top of my library as opposed to the Kommand sitting in my hand.

[@lucarr1041]

+ Lily gets her to her ultimate a turn earlier. It also frees up mana next turn if he hits action. Considering the high average card quality of the deck, it's not unreasonable to hope you'll hit something good in the next couple of draw steps. You're probably more likely to win if you ult Lily and play something like a Seasoned Pyromancer/Kroxa/Goyf than if you play K command as Discard+Disentomb and ignore Lily for another turn. I also don't think holding up the edict is particularly relevant, seeing as that's going to be face up against a Jace. It's a close call, but I think Reid's play was probably the right one

[@SnapD24]

@@lucarr1041 That's a lot of words to be wrong. The ultimate requires quite a few turns of things going wrong for the opponent as well as Reid not drawing garbage. That's a big bet on bad odds when you have a very good card in-hand already.

[@ogolthorp]

@@SnapD24 a good but slow card. By the time Reid commands back, then replays BBE jace has brainedstormed twice and they’ve probably found an answer to the BBE, which they can just hold up mana for. Jund isn’t winning this matchup through card advantage, they’re winning by keeping the opponent in the back foot and applying pressure. Destroying 2 lands and keeping them off colors does that. Taking 2 turns to replay a 3/2 that might hit a relevant spell is not doing that.

[@petzkuh]

1:19:00 - isn't the upside of hitting the Terminate much higher? you'll be able to tick up Liliana then, and be at 5 loyalty instead of 4 (if you edict first, then hit Lili and plus the new one) so 1 turn closer to that ultimate.

[@rekenner]

45:30 - my thoughts (paused and thought out before you started your discussion), were Saga, Amulet, 1-2 Valakut vs the rest. I was considering just 1 Valakut because 2 Valakut + Saga is enough to activate Saga without a land drop. I think if I was in opp's shoes, I would have kept double Valakut, Saga, Amulet, but I'm not an Amulet player. But getting 2 karnstructs vs empty handed Jund doesn't seem like a bad place to be, post-board. It somewhat depends on what random value artifacts they have - but Expedition Map is pretty stock, so I'm happy chaining 2 Sagas and aiming for that win.

[@messedupforsure]

I've never seen Reid so excited like that that was awesome

[@Dementia55372]

Absolutely heartbreaking match vs Tron, how do they always have it?

[@Destinati0n2202]

The BBE into Pillage in R2G3 was awesome!

[@choccymilk7913]

Reid please please please, revisit your temur huntmaster midrange deck! Thanks for the awesome content!

[@Trebbih]

Good ol classic boomer jund with wrenn and six and seasoned pyromancer

[@williamrussell5521]

12:30 what a fuckin tilt. Such a feels bad.

[@elmaestroalberto1786]

I'm a simple teacher. I see Reid duke and i hit like and watch the whole video.

[@gpgp9198]

The Duke with another Jund masterclass! Cheers!

[@gregorykelly8000]

Considering wrath when you could have taken it seems like the better time to consider your thoughts with us please?

[@drifter4943]

I think you should be using Ashiok on yourself mostly, especially at 49:53 against amulet, because you can mill a land for W&6 or mill Kroxa and be really far ahead here. Think that's way more relevant than potentially exiling a titan or two from the opponent's deck.

[@guilhermecosta27]

Now we can see the oponent's hand. Thank you, Channelfireball. P.S.: what are the chances to see a Channel + Fireball combo deck in a video?

[@bofaybaykweh]

Vs nassif couldn't you have not upticked lili for the turn to play around verdict? Cuz if you resolved kcommand you could buy back bbe and maybe you'd be in a better spot?

[@ogolthorp]

That’s really slow and Nassif will have 2 planes walkers in play and 3 more lands.

[@blizzfreak245]

@@ogolthorp they mean when Reid cast the 2nd bloodbraid into pillage to kill both Jace and wrens and six: instead of plussing Liliana to 6 and discarding k-command, to keep the k-command in hand and then buy back a bloodbraid after the verdict

[@ogolthorp]

@@blizzfreak245 Yes. I know. And my point stands.

[@ImprezaOZ]

ragavan would fit like a glove, imagine casting lili on turn 2

[@emceemikey]

true! And maybe just slim down the curve a bit by adding some value rocks and urza's saga package. To make room for it maybe cut the BBEs and pyromancers, since our card advantage is better now. And since we're already playing such cheap creatures, might as well throw in lurrus as a companion since all we're really cutting is the lilis. I think these changes would make the deck much more competitive

[@matthewworley5302]

i would have scooted the slayers stronghold to the saga pile at least that way they cant cast titan and nug you in the same turn

[@reslime]

3 words and lots of love: MODERN BOOMER JUND ♡

[@woutervan8019]

Hi Reid, I like your content. About this video: would you mind moving your camera window? I'd like to be able to see the opponent's graveyard

[@Arthur-ux9ez]

This deck being called "boomer jund" makes me feel old...

[@CraftyChicken91]

BOOMER DETECTED

[@frasert8779]

@@CraftyChicken91 😂

[@terraqueo89]

Reiderabbit vs Bobthedog, the battle of the century!

[@canadianbakn]

Is there actually a way to tell which planeswalker was activated with magic online? It's insane to me that this product has been out for 10 plus years and it's still not usable.

[@9sharps]

I believe if you right click a newly controlled permanent, it says "newly controlled"

[@theatog]

45:00 Saga itself is not too bad is it? He has 10 mana. I think you can split it in a way he can't cast Titan. Titan is almost instant lose. (as demonstrated by the opponent choosing the Titan pile over Saga pile) Saga you will have time. Also if you have his top deck titan stuck in hand, it also makes you draw live on thoughtseize, an otherwise dead card at this point (or Liliana for that matter). I think i will do 5-5 mana split. Green mana split from Castle. Amulet split from Saga. Saga split from stronghold. Stronghold from activating mana. Castle (no green mana), Saga (no free artifact), Valakut x2, Bog Bounce lands, stronghold (no red mana), vigor As for second question, will keep Saga.

[@wetwillyis_1881]

You know what, I have been thinking of building boomer jund, but with dauthi voidwalker and ignobler heirarch, is this a good idea?

[@kylemitchell2052]

Maybe? It's a bit more proactive than the version reid's playing.

[@currymacking6262]

the hierarch is low key bad because one of the strengths of this deck is all of the cards except the thoughtseizes are really good in topdeck mode, adding more cards that are bad to draw turn 7 seems really bad. voidwalker is pretty good, just know the not being able to block is kinda weird/bad for this deck that is very often a "control deck' vs the most aggressive strategies

[@TheMattmatic]

Voidwalker is great vs graveyard decks and Tron but not great vs aggressive decks necessarily, so it might be a meta call. What you expect to play against and what you want to beat.

[@wetwillyis_1881]

@@TheMattmatic That is what I was thinking and seeing in my testing, I am thinking of dropping the heirarch, as much as I love it.

[@marvellion6872]

if you right click it says newly controlled

[@TheSchmandarinOrange]

Game 2 match 2 was artful

[@beelor5777]

One of the big problems with jund now is that 1 for 1 card effects are just not great anymore. You need to have some 2 for 1s now. bloodbraid is good but thats one of the only good 2 for 1 in jund. And with things like bolt unless you are trying to race 3 damage isnt as good as just plain destroy or exile. You said it yourself, you had to spend a lot of resources to remove 1 wrenn and six, with things like bloodchief thirst you couldve only spent 1 card. That 1st round made it clear where you went 1 for 1 a lot and were still down on cards in hand and cards in play.

[@lexist7]

Wow round 1 nassif vs reid

[@crooker23]

And nassif opens with a "wow big fan" lmao

[@ggpt9641]

In this vid: Someone loses to a pact trigger.

[@ChaosForce08]

Have fun in Vegas, Reid.

[@Gyarodos]

Reid Duke refusing to play Assassins trophy over Terminate, facing down a Jace game 1. Classic

[@Leo-pr7ly]

00:34:00 Bolt doesn't kill anything, Priority #1 is killing the amulets / titans / constructs, I don't see how bolt helps. It's my first card to cut, together with W6.

[@peterkirk8510]

Surprised you didn’t minus on yourself m2g2, looking for kroxa or a target for your k command

[@BiCuriousGeorge1]

23:06 is hilarious to me

[@TheEppypens]

Play Jund in Vegas!

[@derekmachiele4133]

I'm a simple man, I see Reid and Jund and I watch

[@elementaleighteight]

I mean i made mythic in 2 weeks using a mardu dungeon deck in standard

[@LeianXu]

Reid duke + boomer jund = 👍

[@1ridethemathematician809]

Jund great, Reid duke great

[@frasert8779]

Omg… the picking the wrong Wrenn was sooooo brutal to watch 😬

[@ドン-y7f]

I LOVE JUND！！！！

[@alexdavis3938]

Is Bob just no longer a viable option as the meta progresses?

[@nebDDa]

you just don’t need it because wrenn and six gives you the card advantage, it’s a less vulnerable permanent, and it can kill creatures too

[@ozfan6]

@@nebDDa Not to mention avoiding the life payment of bob is helpful against a lot of the aggro decks.

[@ChaosForce08]

I'd add that the removal spells have gotten better too with Ending and Unholy Heat both which trade at least at even mana.

[@jhunter123ful]

The card also play's terribly against wrenn and six

[@NidasRichmount]

you really need to tone down that intro though, it comes in at a 100db, and then the video continues in 5db, so either lower the volume before playing the video, or proceed hearing nothing of what Reid says

[@kasteenfoil2389]

I see jund i click

[@alessandroverrecchia5763]

You know its boomer jund, when the user can't use mtgo interface and keeps the wrong planeswalker 😂

[@boxer4u2nv]

I'm a huge Reid Duke fan but this JUND deck is hot garbage. During this past week, I have won 2 out of 20 matches using this list. So painful.