Mtg Deck Tech: Jund Midrange in Aether Revolt Standard!

[@JasonBals]

I enjoy the addition of your thoughts on side boarding for some match-ups. Thank you.

[@aleckwright1607]

I like your mention of dark dwellers as a budget torrential gearhulk. I think I'll add it to my budget grixis tower deck. Thanks dev!

[@absolumx6676]

Big thanx for how you explain your sideboarding against most popular deck in the format. very useful. great job. I might just have to try this deck as well ;)

[@refuse2lose1985]

I like the idea of laying out a sideboard guide. Good change and keep up the great work!

[@SavageD-qi2ti]

Dev this may be your best deck yet. Great stuff sir! I was definitely on the dark dwellers plan but I like this so much better.

[@anderwubb_4560]

Awesome deck tech man! Hope this gets popular. Can't wait for the gw rallier deck!

[@bommking137]

I really liked the sideboard detail you gave :). Deciding what to take out is usually the hardest part of boarding imo.

[@SBMTG]

I like the idea of Live Fast (I've seen this suggestion a few times in the comments). In a non-tower deck, I might be comfortable going down to 2 Harnessed Lightning, but in a Tower deck, I'd really like a playset. We could take out a Fatal Push but then we lose some ground vs. Vehicles. What do you guys think could come out (I wonder if the most popular answer will be Tower itself - I considered just going Chandra and Painful Truths over Tower for a more traditional midrange deck).

[@Arghore]

After some consideration, i would like to suggest: 1. Cut one Attune for a Live Fast (both give 2e, and with 6 'tutors' and 22 lands mana should still be fine) 2. Cut one Unlicensed Disintegration for a Life Fast (still 8 ways (see 3) to deal with PW including the tower) 3. Cut one To the slaughter for a Life Fast, but put it in the side for a Chandra. (still 8 ways to deal with PW see 2) Now the Unlicensed Disintegration is strong, but with 3 in there it doesn't loose to much strength, and the Tower performs somewhat the same function late game (basically 3 to the dome), this is replaced by 4 energy (with a tower out) and 2 cards drawn, this is almost an activations (aka 3 to the dome) and card advantage, which feels like a fair trade off for a removal spell you might draw into (which then gives 2e if a tower is out, and thus 6e total). Most in doubt about the To the Slaughter, esp. seeing a UD already went out to make room for card draw, hence i put this in the board. With 3 towers, 3 UD and 1 TtS and a Transgress, that still leaves 8 main deck answers for a planeswalker (besides just turning threads sideways). Which, statistically speaking is 'nearly' reliable... Also think the transgress is just extra powerful if you get it early game, just to see what you are up against. The above obviously without testing the deck as is, and seeing how well the energy generation is right now, i could see going say 2 Live Fast and 1 Painful truths, just for the extra 'umpf' carddraw, while not loosing much energy and thus tower activations. With a tower out, this packages gives exactly 10 energy, and 7 cards (as opposed to 12 energy and 6 cards)

[@Arghore]

ps. Yeah, after studying the list a bit more (besides just where to make room), i think adding the card draw might actually help the deck a lot, mainly as far as consistency goes. You need some gasoline to keep the fire going, esp. with just 11 creatures and the amount of removal that is actually in the meta atm. Trading it off for some later game removal and a bit of fixing feels like the right trade off.

[@Arghore]

lastly, Maybe trying 'resourceful return' could be an option for late game card draw too, it seems to fit the strategy of the deck well, as long as there is a tower out, but it's a late game card draw/recursion spell for sure ... still interesting, but maybe to circumstantial...

[@captainamaze-o9009]

Strictly Better MtG hey I've been trying to find your email haha...my buddy and I tweaked your bestiary deck to be able to literally play your entire deck turn 4 or 5 for super cheap...if you'd like the list let me know!

[@darthtonier]

Arghore thank you so much about your suggestions! I found them helpful.

[@anthonymentalewicz5143]

solid deck and I'm going to try it. on first look I'd consider a glint sleeve siphoner instead of the delerium path but that's just me (I've really enjoyed the energy mechanic). also based on my local meta blossoming defense or heroic intervention would need to at least be a one of. when I get a chance to scoop up the cards I'm going to switch my temur tower deck over to this and take it for a spin.

[@adrianokitani5243]

I tried this deck with Goblin Dark-Dwellers and it's super sweet. The deck has a very good match-up against Mardu. Nice job, this is my favorite deck of this channel.

[@Chapterhouse86]

Great video Dev! I really liked your banlist update video as well, you should do more videos like that! Love you Dev!

[@empyrion8789]

Haha that intro had me in stitches :-) CAKE! great as always bud.

[@Grimm_HD]

It's beautiful Dev, u never disappoint lol. Keep up the great work.

[@scholtzspider]

Thanks so much for adding the sideboard match-up tech!

[@ukcrumpets2024]

I have been testing this deck and at my local store o had a few raised eyebrows but after play testing I can say this is a brilliant deck which pushes saheli and mardu. I have tweaked a few cards but this deck I will be using for RPTQ event soon so let you know how It does. Brilliant Deck Tech

[@mambagrizz5316]

I can see lifecrafter beastiary for tireless tracker, doesn't help for the delirium, but it smooth out the card draws and it's harder to deal with pre-sideboard

[@NathanA-mk9ne]

Great tech Dev. Keep up the hard work.

[@ginoginoh]

I would love to put Goblins in here, it's one of my favourite card and I think a lot underrated, it also goes really well with Pulse of Murasa, a common card which many don't even know it exists.

[@JWAL1983]

Just used a similar deck to win my local FNM 4-0 overall 7-1 over four rounds. This deck wrecks Saheeli and Vehicles. I use Nissa voice of Zendikar instead of Lilliana. I believe the Nissa Vital force may be better for this deck. I also run 3 Verderous and one Noxius, also Ob is a one of. I now want two. He does great work.Also Will be sideboarding some Grapples. I think they would be great.

[@TheRockGiant]

Couldn't the Snake net you a ton of extra energy?

[@JeremyDeere]

Love this series! Fight the meta!

[@ashylarrymp]

I think this list can come down a few removal spells and add glint sleeve siphoner.

[@Arghore]

Hmm, really intriguing deck (do think there is some room for card draw btw. responded to your question of 'where' below). When i see these 11 creatures though i'm so 'sad' that i have hardly ever played control, as this feels like you need good knowledge of that playstyle to pilot this deck. Looks like you will just be removing stuff until turn 4 or so, before ever landing a creature, after which it turns into a midrange creature jund creature deck with a recursion longgame plan.

[@ohword620]

hey i mean with no bans, now i'm even more hyped for Ahmonkhet!

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

I hear about Saheeli so much on this channel, but in my local meta, the only thing I see is g/b snake ballista.

[@hoots711]

If one did not want to spend/invest in the Liliana(s), what would be a good option to replace her 2 of? (budget?)

[@gonzalomb5026]

I'd swap it for either (Painful truths) or (Cathartic Reunion/Tormenting Voice/Graple with the past)

[@Teeppss1]

If you're looking for some extra energy production and card advantage, Glint-Sleeve Siphoner good be a decent option.

[@manolvitanov2571]

I would try kaladesh Nissa since her minus ability is almost the same.

[@shaozzt1873]

Stephen Cole with everyone running ballista, glintsleeve is a sideboard card at best and only used against Saheeli.

[@willyoriley374]

Goblin Dark Dwellers! I'm actually very surprised Dev didn't include any in this deck... With all that great removal + Towers, it's like a pseudo-Torrential Gearhulk. To be honest, I think the only thing this deck is lacking are some more higher-curve finishers. Even though there are only 22 lands, this deck actually sits low on the curve for having 4 Attunes + 3 Traverses... you can even use Dark Dwellers to buy back a Traverse that you used earlier for ramp, only now it has delirium so you can find anything!

[@iSpitboxer]

I been playing with this and I think we need like 2 live fast. I run out of gas even with the 3 tireless and 3 harness you mentioned.

[@Wicked-Tech]

Perhaps Cathartic Reunion for card advantage? helps drive delirium, plus card draw in red. Thoughts?

[@LosRudosdelRock]

Can you upgrade and update the UW Spirits to compete in this Standard???? Thanks for all Dave. Greetings.

[@ashylarrymp]

I'm not convinced there will only be 2 decks. I think there are some ways to get Aethersphere harvester to work and also Torrential Gearhulk is just so good.

[@Omegaroth666]

A young Dev! My goodness!!

[@atomainthavingit5844]

dev, i think you should add herald of anquish as a midrange finisher you got the towers to improvise 5/5 flyer and makes them discard you can sac a clue and give something -2-2

[@joshuadilbeck7253]

love the deck. jund is just great

[@DarthSleepless]

I like the deck. I'm curious and wanna try out like 2x winding constrictor, I've liked it with energy.

[@stevenrankin6672]

This deck is pretty awesome but I'm not investing any more in standard until Amonkhet. I'll stick with my R/G Pumler deck and race them.

[@killerreviewscom]

Love these videos. Thanks!!

[@BlaineTog]

For card advantage, what about Live Fast? Easier casting cost, plus it gives us an extra 2 energy.

[@EvilLuisito]

I fail to see how green is better than blue in a tower strategy. Blue gives you Anticipate and Glimmer of Genius which are crucial cards. But the only thing green does in this list is fix your mana, replace card draw/velocity with Tireless Tracker and replace Gearhulk with Hydra/Ishkanah. Scrapheap is a little random, you don't have enough creatures to make it a recurring threat. It seems to be just there to turn on Unlicensed Disintegration but it doesn't really fit otherwise. So imo having 4x Trackers seems just better and can also turn on Unlicensed. Renegade Map could be interesting since it triggers Revolt for Fatal Push, but then you have to cut either Traverse or Attune, but then that works against the Tower plan. But you can't have too many creatures either because that also works against the tower plan. So to me when I look at this I think: Ok Tower is kind of preventing me to make an actually good jund deck. Imo blue is a must in any Dynavolt Tower deck.

[@blaudemon]

Dev, is Nissa, the vital force an option to replace liliana? (for budget reasons)

[@MrTompann]

Hey man, First of all, great channel. I'm a new player and your channel have helped me out a lot when trying to learn magic. I was wondering why you don't play Chandra maindeck here. It seems like you want it vs both mardu and copycat. What matchups makes you not include it in the main?

[@thyetyeyryeretyery]

Hey Dev, as a with a BGSnake without Verdurous Gearhulk, how would you answer a UW spirits/control feat. Avacyn deck? Got one in my meta I just can't seem to beat.

[@grymgungus3933]

Hydra is actually an interesting idea for temur tower sideboards against control I wonder if anyone's tried it

[@ryanholland5131]

I like me some go to Jund. good job dev

[@madviolentchicken]

Here before release... I think!

[@mgrose75]

What about deadlock Trap instead of Scrapheap Scrounger, thoughts?

[@felipebelmiro7200]

what is the game the intro song is from? I just can't recall it! I think it's from xenogears but idk which one

[@RMGringo2122]

Yo dev, why did you stop putting links to your social media in the description?

[@cyrus1469]

Why no hissing quagmire? And why not 2 ishkana

[@MrNajie]

interesting take! I like my creature based strategy a bit more though.

[@glenpoulsen7153]

Is It just me or does sultai look like it could have more potential?

[@jacquespansegrouw5513]

Glen Poulsen Sultai for the win

[@joestaks9395]

Glen Poulsen actually i've built a sultai control dynavolt. Went 1-2 on a 4c Saheeli and 0-2 on Mardu Vehicle

[@Jakar_Umbra]

I'm actually playing Sultai Dynavolt now. I kind of slammed by U/G Energy and U/B Summonings which had Dynavolt tower in the sideboard together and I'm working with it now. It seems okay thus far.

[@joestaks9395]

Jakar Umbra decklist please

[@demetriusa.phofolos7184]

Glen Poulsen i feel like this format could handle a Temur black deck only splashing for unlicensed and fatal push

[@lawfullyblind8403]

if we had 300 bucks we would play G/B counters. can you do it under 150?

[@stephendugas3405]

Why not add live fast for card advantage? It produces 2 energy and draws you 2 cards. if you have a tower out it produces 4 energy.

[@cameronreese8126]

Hey Dev, could you do me and so many others a favor and talk about how to draft modern masters 2017?

[@gonzalomb5026]

I'd play Glint-Sleeve siphoner for card advantage. And maybe a 2x Wood puzzleknot SIDEBOARD for some lifegain (plus its a sacable artifact, that gives energy)

[@gonzalomb5026]

CANT WAIT FOR RENEGADE SQUAD!!!! Both Narnam and Rallier look sick. Dont forget to include *Eldrazi Displacer* , at least as a two-of.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Gonzalo MB , Woodweaver's Puzzleknot is pretty underrated. In an energy deck, it is bonkers.

[@dvorak2676]

crazy good videos

[@kps_polis1357]

No room for Lost Legacy? Disassembles the entire combo. Maybe 3 CMC is too slow and vulnerable.

[@coltenrockford578]

You said with Harnessed Lightning you could use at the opponent's face... It says choose target creature.

[@madviolentchicken]

And now I'm here again :')

[@RobtimusPrime6]

with my playtesting this, i cant stop drawing lands. feels heavy

[@crispyimmortal]

Any replacments for lilly? She is too expensive for me!

[@willyoriley374]

Goblin Dark Dwellers! I'm actually very surprised Dev didn't include any in this deck... With all that great removal + Towers, it's like a pseudo-Torrential Gearhulk. To be honest, I think the only thing this deck is lacking are some more higher-curve finishers. Even though there are only 22 lands, this deck actually sits low on the curve for having 4 Attunes + 3 Traverses... you can even use Dark Dwellers to buy back a Traverse that you used earlier for ramp, only now it has delirium so you can find anything!

[@ernestocruz8793]

Man, I've been playing RB Tower Control and is being awesome against 4c saheeli and Mardu. Downside, is not that great against Temur Tower since they do the same game plan more efficiently. RB has all the removals (shock, fatal, unlicensed, Harnessed, inciendiary) which gives instant answeres to the combo and cheap removal against mardu. Also plays walking Ballista and dark dwellers (pseudo gearhulk), the deck can win without attacking

[@patrickferullo4961]

Could you possibly do some budget modern deck techs? It may attract knew players who want to start Standard or Modern and you could get more Subscribers.

[@WarriorFromV4LH4LL4]

Props for that there Chrono Trigger music :D

[@BEENOBAGamingWithBloodstone]

moqensen i thought it was from portal

[@snekkers5600]

+Strictly Better MtG This deck is amazing in amonkhet standard. With a couple tweaks of course, hmu if you want this list and reasons for tweaks. Or just revisit on your own.

[@gemyniraptor8626]

honestly, I feel Glint Sleeve Siphoner is a better Card Advantage engine than Oath of Nissa or Painful Truths.

[@empil98]

so basaicly your playing 29 lands its a bit much maybe take out a land and aswell add some chandras or somthing i mean like. chandra is a better wincon tbh then lili is and better card draw aswell for the deck. but else love the deck

[@aedaillon]

No, he is only playing 22 lands. You can't really count traverse or Attune. They give mana fixing, not more mana.

[@empil98]

+Villagerslayer10 you can acctualy count that. Because thats what they do. Sure if you got delirum or tower it changes. But mostly its still 1 mana get 1 land

[@87539319]

Still gotta cast the spells that find lands; they don't count quite the same

[@horsebones727]

Not to mention, Traverse is mostly there to grab Gearhulk or Ishkanah.

[@horsebones727]

I really like Attune for this as well because it will feed that Hydra beautifully. And the Towers. And the Harnessed Lightning's. And the Hubs. Oh, and don't forget, they also fix your greedy manabase for those Walkers and Disintegration.

[@sharkattack1218]

dev sorry to say I looked at the list below saw lilliana and was like I can't afford that. and can u make anothe commander video

[@fgc_7433]

I feel like ive come back to MTG at a bad time. Is it always been pay (alot) to win. Kinda have a hard time getting my wife to let me spend $250+ on mtg just to be competitive.

[@67silverhazey]

Se7enty4 Gaming better than about a year ago decks were near 1,000 dollars

[@shorewall]

The best decks always cost.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Se7enty4 Gaming , yes, it has always been "may the richest man win." There is plenty of fun to be had in this game, but if 'fun' to you means winning tournaments, then you are not going to without spending multi hundreds to a thousand $$ every year.

[@Confidential2U]

kinda really wanted to see the gitrog monster

[@Juhheli]

Il just make the cheap aggro one where i splash black for snake and unlicensed

[@Juhheli]

From rg aggro

[@Remedy_X]

saheeli Rai is a crazy cat lady

[@chavsnaps]

You should start showing test games

[@dawidmoscicki4865]

sweet t-shirt :)

[@hollowhughes198]

Thanks for putting the video out so fast, but my deck I currently had was 90% the same, painful truths saves your nips when a tracker gets shanked right off the batt, I was using woodweavers for extra life, an artifact and extra energy, very good card. And snake, oh snake how he boosts the tower, boosts my drana, boosts my energy gain, boosts my hydras, just boosts my tits off. Anyway nice to see your tech in think the removal is just a weeeeee bit overkill and some more beef needs to be on the table.

[@darthtonier]

Could you share your deck, i was looking to build a snake tower deck... But to no avail.

[@hollowhughes198]

20 lands, 4 hubs, 3 marsh, 1 quagmire, 1 forboding ruins, 2 game trail, 2 wilds, 3 forest, 2 mountain, 2 swamp. 4 push, 3 attune, 3 traverse, , 3 harness, 4 unlicensed, 3 towers, 1 painful truth, 1 slaughter, 2 lil, 1 kalitas, 1 noxious, 1 ishk, 3 snakes, 2 cubs, 2 scrounge, 2 tracker (or 1 and 2 painfull truth) 2 drana.

[@hollowhughes198]

darthtonier sideboard is everything in this deck you chooses how many copies but good cards to have are as follows that I use. Collective brutality, transgress, pulse of marasa, natural state, appetite, pick the brain, to the slaught, painful truths, walking ballista, or more snakes or cubs.

[@XxXx-gd5qc]

needs Arlinn Kord.

[@thesmuguwu381]

i want cake

[@Fearfulocean]

no card control you will run out or resources and top deck between turns 6-7 on

[@SBMTG]

I usually don't hit topdeck mode before turn 8 (there aren't a lot of turns where we're casting more than one spell), and by then Tire Tracks is doing his thing

[@iSpitboxer]

Fearfulocean yep every time basically lol

[@kamakazi339]

I really think that jeskai Saheeli is the way to go

[@67silverhazey]

its crazy i have not lost a game against gb counters or mardu with my grixis tower but im 0-5 against saheeli

[@bjons5044]

Uh... 117th!

[@axelbloodmoon9841]

Do a bant flash deck tech please!

[@cptcolgenltmajor9246]

crackdown construct combo deck please

[@lostsoul9987]

i predicted jund energy to be a thing

[@thewarriorofboros]

The mana is so ridiculously fucking absurd anyway, why not just play 4 color tower w/o white

[@jacobusstefanusvandervyver4211]

expensive as well ....

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

I want Cake

[@jaiwavy1401]

ABZAN AGGRO

[@colecates5554]

Hmmm

[@djcree420]

I want cake too

[@paperman8352]

deck tech. Mardu dash into revolt tigers

[@randallferguson1981]

Paper Man modern much?

[@paperman8352]

Is that a deck? I was just thinking about Mardu strike leader and shadows pear would trigger a bunch of cool interactions.

[@randallferguson1981]

Paper Man not to my knowledge bud it would be sweet though. This guy posts standard almost always. I wish he would do more modern decks though

[@IrritatedIndex]

I too want cake...

[@firstandlast.1254]

Should be Hund (hate jund).

[@steventinker3958]

I wish I cared about standard, but Wizards just admitted that infinite combos are ok now so....

[@87539319]

I still think the combo was intentional in the first place..

[@steventinker3958]

But why? I would hope to believe that more people would get disgusted with the combo than would want to invest into it.

[@xanaxkamikaze]

The thing that annoys me about Tireless Tracker is that it is the best Landfall creature, but the card doesn't say Landfall! Stupid!

[@bdoghomes3]

gotta put my 2 cents in I lose the channel man been watching your videos before I go to bed but I hate to say it but aggro rules standard right now control literally can't do anything I'm a control player been playing grixas in standard before at her revolt came out at.my local card store I was winning and doing great and now aggro is in control can't compete or keep up I just think everyone who plays control needs to wait for the next 2 sets to finnaly be able to play again but standard aggro ruined the fun for me

[@leonin6864]

FOURTH!!!

[@jaiwavy1401]

ABZAN AGGRO

[@fujiclodo]

I want cake