u/hipstevius

After goldfishing, watching the small amount of content that currently exists on it, and exploring all possible existing decklists, I landed on Jund Hawkeye Combo, and this particular list, as being best.

After signing up at my LGS I immediately faced the most difficult possible matchup against someone I’ve never played and of course they’re on Izzet Terror and of course I’m not playing my mono blue terror (Which I have at every event so far)! I tried my best but it was basically impossible. If i had been running a more-artifact-centric list with [[Krark-Clan Shaman]] and [[Toxin Analysis]] I think I could’ve taken the games. I lost in two even after, in game two, running them completely out of cards and mana because I didn’t have QUITE enough mana to slam the combo. I had Bitter Reunion on board, both combo pieces in hand, and I was literally one mana short!

I ended up grinding out the second round and continuously getting back [[Twisted Landscape]] and [[Writhing Chrysalis]] with [[Call Damage Control]] against Dimir Terror (wtf!! Literally no one else plays terror at my LGS except me and all of a sudden I face it twice in a row lol) as I grabbed lands out of my deck with landscape, I drew some card draw spells to dig deeper and even flashed back multiple copies of [[Eviscerator’s Insight]] to keep churning.

Anyways, that worked out and I won in two! They eventually exhausted all their removal and between Call Damage Control and [[Tamiyo’s Safekeeping]] and slapping down combo pieces while they were tapped out, playing [[Duress]] at the right times, and having [[Bitter Reunion]] on board, and strategically blocking with eldrazi spawns and scions and sacrificing them before damage to power up my Writhing Chrysalises, I was able to grind through the matchup until I could get the combo and win! Twice in a row!

In the third round I played against a [[Golem Foundry]] combo deck. I was even lucky enough to get the combo in my starting hand (no mulls!) and was able to lay it down turn one and two and resolve it on my third turn for an ultra-quick game one! The game probably didn’t even last a minute. Everyone around was shocked and perhaps even a bit disgusted by the swiftness of the combo. I said yeah it will probably eat a ban. I don’t really believe that though. As you know by this point, it’s not like I went undefeated. They were shocked but not enraged. Flabbergasted might be the word. In the second game I was able to assemble it after a few turns and win again despite a little bit of interaction, it just wasn’t enough to stop me from casting Duress, then playing out the combo with Bitter Reunion on board while they were tapped out, and equipping the bow to Seeker, giving it haste, and doing the thing! They had a playset of [[Foundry Inspector]] on board and apparently were close to comboing as well but had trouble getting the pieces.

I had to kind of make up my sideboard for this deck. For what I have been seeing consistently in the meta the past three events, my sideboard was tailor-made! Elves, white weenies, mono red decks, Bogles, Lotleth Giant…guess what? Zero of those decks were present today! It was terror decks and nothing but!! Again, after zero Terror decks not played by me for weeks! Basically the worst matchup I could ask for but I still made Izzet Terror desperately work for it, and Dimir Terror made me do that too. The last round was fairly easy and getting the combo in my starting hand was incredibly lucky.

Did I mention I originally had the bye in the first round and my opponent signed up late so he automatically got paired with me? I was even thinking before I left for the event, because I almost did 3 [[Breath Weapon]] and a [[Fiery Cannonade]] but then I thought “You know what? There’s a reason that doesn’t see much play! Just my luck I’ll get matched up against a deck playing that giant pirate creature and this card will be useless when I need it most” so I switched it and that’s exactly what happened! It’s like I manifested it! Why can’t that happen with things I actually want to happen? Hahaha

Really I’m glad for the games though because I learned more and got to find out critical information about how the deck plays. Certainly more fun than just sitting around! After I lost horribly I even got to try out my Flicker Tron list.

So I lost in 2 the first round and won in 2 in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. However, by this point, the people who won in the first and second rounds had already won all the prizes and there were none to be won!! Plus my LGS friends had already shown up and convinced me to play in the pre-release (I actually built my deck while playing the final round of Pauper) and I’m glad they did!
I didn’t just get a foil Call Damage Control for my newest pauper deck, I also opened a foil copy of [[The Mind Stone]] as my promo card!! Not that you could tell since they don’t do the stamp anymore lol

I’ve been thinking about the sideboard a lot and I really feel that anything you would board in comes at the expense of making the deck worse at securing the combo. So I think what this deck maybe wants to do is actually slot out 15 cards from the main deck in game two and slot in 15 cards to completely alter the game plan of the deck. Then in the third round, if there is one, it will be tough for your opponent to figure out what “deck” you’re playing. In that scenario I don’t think the list looks exactly like this one, but it may lean more in the direction of the Jund Wildfire-style builds (or shifted Broodscale Combo lists) and perhaps even a sort of “Jund Affinity” that plays [[Tithing Blade]], [[Krark-Clan Shaman]], [[Toxin Analysis]], [[Ichor Wellspring]], indestructible Bridge lands, and maybe a good amount of untapped artifact lands, [[Makeshift Munitions]], [[Chromatic Star]], and [[Myr Enforcers]]? Or some balance of some of those cards. I was also thinking [[Hopeless Nightmare]] can be a 2nd, if less ideal, set of [[Duress]] but could also hit different cards. You can get it back with Call Damage Control and [[Living Lightning]] (or perhaps [[Ardent Elementalist]])seems like it could keep funneling Tamiyo’s Safekeeping, Duress, and Call Damage Control back into hand along with all the draw spells to make it as resilient as possible! I wonder if it’s a bit too expensive though? Perhaps the deck is resilient enough as it is? But it starts getting pretty dicey with resource battling Terror decks after both players have exhausted many spells. I really don’t see getting around that board without the use of Krark-Clan Shaman and [[Toxin Analysis]].

I’ve also had thoughts that maybe the deck could try to run multiple combos in the right build, but that is likely too clunky. Against cards that tap seeker down, like [[Sleep of the Dead]] I think we could use [[Guac & Marshmellow Pizza]] to untap, or to survive cards like [[End the Festivities]] and [[Breath Weapon]].

Anyways I’m tired and this is likely more than anyone wants read as it is so I’m gonna stop for now.

I don’t know where the deck will ultimately land but it sure is fun to play! I hope to get to play it at least a few more times and hopefully actually go undefeated in some events before people get wise to it or it gets banned.

Jund Hawkeye Combo

This is where I originally found the list, but there's no sideboard. Had to come up with my own based on my meta and what I had available.

I really think KCS and Toxin Analysis are needed to deal with terror decks, but that requires running a more artifact-centric version of the deck which is slower and grindier than this already fairly mid-range-y grindy deck. I feel this decklist is strong but needs a bit more juice to go undefeated.

I took an old mono blue terror list to locals for pauper recently now that we finally have it at my LGS after I tried to get it going to no avail for months on end.

EVERYONE is utilizing their GY it seems, with the exception of one player on mono white weenies (and maybe Bogles, I'm not familiar with that deck right now as I haven't looked at it in ages). I don't really want to branch out of mono blue if I don't have to but basically every deck is pouring into their graveyard and winning faster and faster with every card they chuck in there.

One idea I had was, since my [[Delver of Secret]]s are just trading with my opponent's fliers anyway, why don't I run [[Sneaky Snacker]] instead? I could get [[Contaminated Aquifer]] with [[Lorien Revealed]] if I have to, and I could even maybe run [[Bojuka Bog]]?

See, I'm already outside of mono blue haha
That's probably fine as long as I can keep the deck pretty consistent, but is it what's best? I don't know. How can I tweak my terror list to turn off my opponent's graveyards and shut down their engines so I can win?

Or is this the wrong path? Maybe I need to figure out how to make my deck go faster than their's and use [[Gigadrowse]] to tap their blockers down and swing out with a few terrors for the win.

Decks I faced were Mono Red Snacker, Grixis Affinity, White Weenies, Lotleth Giant. There was also someone playing a Mystical Teachings/Mono Blue Tron list that they tweaked based on an existing deck and started playing again because [[Bonder's Ornament]] was unbanned along with another card. They were playing against a Bogles deck. That covers all the decks. I'm not sure if it's going to be all these same decks next time, but...

What do you think? How would you build based off of mono blue terror for achieving this sort of goal? Should I try to outpace my opponents, or shut down their graveyards?

EDIT: Current Decklist

Thinking of Trying This Affinity Homebrew at Locals Today...Do You Think It Has Legs? Or should I use one of these other lists?

Played Jund Hawkeye Combo Today!

Re-worked my "Mono Blue" Terror List for this week to hopefully thrive in my meta.

Which tron list is the most fun to play?

Mono Blue Terror build that can GY hate out opponents?