In the absence of a formal poll, may I nominate a playthrough with Infect?

I think you’re misinterpreting my comment. Given that Bob already draws you cards, Tasigur’s activation isn’t quite as impressive (he used it once that I saw, and it didn’t move the needle when he did). Hence, I was wondering if Trevor would consider swapping it for a Gurmag Angler (more power) or a Huntmaster (less painful to flip, gains life, brings extra bodies). I’ve opted for Huntmaster, and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

Match 1 Game 2: I’m not sure I would play into the Remands. I’d consider trying to strand them in his hand as we have an active Bob and he desperately needs to hit a land to have a chance. On the turn in question we know his hand is: Remand, Remand, Snapcaster, Snapcaster, unknown. The only combination of cards I’m upset to see if I just go, attack with Bob, land, pass, is EOT Bolt he draws and plays a land, pass. You go with Tasigur, gets Remanded, and as you say “he has a decent opportunity to draw out of this now” after you Thoughtseize and I think that may have been because you gave him an extra draw with Remand. I’d consider not even Thoughtseizing him until he hits that 3rd land. What do you think about that line?

Match 2 Game 2: Why Abrupt Decay in response to Exarch tapping your land? Is there any argument to play Stomping Ground untapped and pass? You have a Bob and a Liliana in play with an Inquisition on the stack. I guess if he draws Electrolyze he can get you pretty good, attack with Liliana with Exarch, you don’t block, Electrolyze your board. I always wonder about forcing your opponent to go for the Splinter Twin for the blowout versus just removing Exarch immediately. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Not sure why’d you want Gurmag Angler over Tasigur if your concern is Bob. Also considering Gurmag doesn’t draw you cards.

Agree here ~ I do like to watch without spoilers. Adding it at the end satisfies everyone/ with the SB summary.

Enjoyed the article/vids and also a convert to the Abbot plan.

The main area I need to improve on is Sideboarding so when you do a summary it would be nice to see a list of cards you added/removed rather than only having it in the video.

Thanks man! I can’t decide if I want to record a video with that list now, or maybe wait until after BFZ so we can see if Gideon, Ally of Zendikar fits into the list. Decisions, decisions.

I’m sure I’ll record a Grixis vid eventually, but probably after a little while as about half of my articles have been about Grixis. U/R Twin, or maybe Grixis Twin if I feel like cheating seem like interesting decks that I might record with soon. Thanks!

Sounds great! Affinity is definitely a deck I want to pilot in the near future, and I think a video will be helpful as there are a lot of interesting lines/sequencing that might not be immediately apparent that are worth talking through. Thanks for the suggestion!

Excellent points, thanks for all the suggestions! That makes perfect sense and I can see how basically all removal, even narrow options, are necessary because as you said, that’s the only way we lose the matchup is if we don’t draw our removal. The matchup seems very favorable for Jund assuming our removal light/Lightning Bolt draw doesn’t line up against their Spellskite draw. Thanks for the tips!

I’ve found Hangerback Walker to be a great option over the Abbot.

I’m not a great Jund player by any means but I do have a lot of experience with the Infect matchup. I feel like you under-sideboarded a bit for it. Basically, as Brad Nelson said, “you win the matchup if you don’t lose”. If you can keep them from killing you, you will get there with Bob/Goyf beats and don’t really need additional threats that much.

My general plan is to side in any and all relevant removal – this includes Ancient Grudge and Fulminator, since Inkmoth Nexus is usually the most problematic creature. I also like an Anger of the Gods or two, since it clears the board of annoying Hierarchs. Most of the time I lose to Infect it’s not against the super fast turn 1 Elf + tons of pump spells draws, but rather against the multiple Inkmoth + multiple Hierarch draws. Siding in artifact removal/Fulminators as well as ways to deal with Hierarchs help a lot against these kinds of draws. You also have to watch out for Spellskite as it will be bad news if your hand is bolt-heavy. Ancient Grudge answers a Skite very well. Night of Soul’s Betrayal locks them out of the game, if you are running it.

For cuts I usually begin with Tasigur, as you pointed out he is clunky and slow and really not necessary in this matchup. Scooze is also fairly underwhelming because his lifegain is irrelevant most of the time, and he does nothing against 2/3 of their creatures. On the draw, Liliana can actually be a bit lackluster as well because of her edict getting blanked by Hierarch and her inability to deal with Inkmoth.

Here’s my list: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=91777

I would like to see some UR / Grixis action in the near future.

It’s a good suggestion, but I’d add that if you want to have a summary like this it should be at the very bottom of the article. Some of us who do want to watch the videos would prefer not to have “spoilers”.

I’m very glad that you’re doing this video series btw, it will be great to have more video resources available in addition to Channel Fireball and SCG.

Great suggestion, will definitely do this in the future. The goal is to have the text be a supplement to the videos, but I am aware of the desire to have a “snapshot” of results/main points in text. Thanks!

i.e.
Round 1: 2-1 vs Temur Twin
Round 2: 0-2 vs whatever

etc.