Another National Championship

Last Sunday, I tried again to qualify for the national championship at glorieta 5. I brought the Jund Build my friend recommended, having 27 lands, 3 bituminous blast and no dragons. here's my tournament report:

round 1: Vs Mythic Conscription

He mulled to six in our first match. at first i thought he was playing Next level bant so i just played thrinax, leech and bloodbraid elf. on game 2, i boarded in all of my removal spells and boarded out my thrinax and blightning. no creature lived on the opposite side of the board.

1-0














Round 2: Mythic Conscription again...

This time, i had the first blood of the day. it was a quick combo by turn 5 which i conceded fast to proceed to sideboard. after boarding, i made short work of her creatures while beating with bloodbraid elf.
game three end quickly as she mulled down to 5 cards and has only 2 land drops.

2-0










Round 3: still Mythic Conscription?


Well, nothing to tell here. It has the same result as my last round. the only difference is he played Baneslayer angel and I ripped a terminate on the top of the library in the nick of time. very close fight.











3-0

Round 4: RG Beats

On the first few turns, I thought i was playing with Jund mirror. But after seeing a birds of paradise, I had the wrong information. I was at twelve life when he suddenly hits me with overrun, dealing 13 damage( thanks to 2 life @ putrid leech ). after seeing vengevine, I boarded out 4 copies of blightning and replaced them with 4 duress. bad choice for me as later he revealed he boarded out his overruns and replaced them with goblin ruin blasters. As a cascaded a Duress again on my bloodbraid elf, i suffured my first lost of the day...









3-1

Round 5: RDW


My first bad match-up. My opponent's build is Devastating summons/ Goblin bushwacker. its a little bit inconsistent than the all haste build. I beat him miraculously in game one as he was overwhelmed by thrinax and bloodbraids.

Sideboard:
+4 duress
+3 doomblade

-4 blightning
-2 sharkhan the mad
-1 siegegang commander

This game wasn't in my favor as my only creature was a lone putrid leech while on the other side of the board was a plated geopede and a kiln fiend. I conceded to a lock down of a manabarbs on 10 life... very critical life point on red. On the Deciding match. he mulled down to 5 which kept my hopes up as my openning hand was duress, lightning bolt, putrid leech, savage lands, verdant catacombs, forest, mountain. turn 3 i duress him to pick up a lightning bolt(drawing another duress on turn 2). it was an easy match as he lacks the number of cards to deal decent damage to me.

4-1

Round 6: Blue White control

my opponent on round 6 was joseph basilio, one of the veterans here in the philippine MTG community. I was a little bit worried on game 1 because of my past UW match ups which mostly loses. Lucky for me, He mulled to six cards and was on the play. Time to capitalize! I had an early drop of leech and thrinax which added pressure plus a well timed blightning hitselspeth which made quick work on him.

Sideboard
-4 lightning bolt
-4 sprouting thrinax
-2 terminate
-3 bituminous blast
+4 duress
+4 Goblin Ruin blaster
+3 doomblade
+2 malakir bloodwitch

Game 2, His openning 7 was good. after turn 3, he missed his 4th land drop which i capitalized playing aggressive bloodbraids and ruin blaster. I got lucky to cascade another ruin blaster which made quick work. whooo!!!

5-1

Round 7: Next Level Bant



Not the match-up you wanted when carrying a jund deck, vengevines gives you a lot of headache. I played an aggressive start with a leech and a thrinax, bashing through walls and pumping it. on my 5th turn, still I played blightning... guess what hits the graveyard... a pair of vengevine. Luckily, vengevine never saw the light of two creatures as I hit lethal damage after targeting two wall of omens with a maelstrom pulse. that was a close game!

sideboard
-4 blightning
+2 doomblade
+2 jund charm

Game 2, as i remembered, was very very close match. We where trading combats with Rox War monk and putrid leech. I was at 1 life when i recovered with Dragon tokens thanks to sarkhan the mad. I almost cost the game when i made an error attacking my dragon tokens. luckily, i cascaded a removal on the bituminous blast, killing the war monk with a +3/+3 flying because of Elspeth.

Round 8: Mythic Conscription Still!!!!

this round, we both agreed to intentionally draw to guarantee a spot in the Top 8 play-offs. As we take a brake, Earl told me to revise my plan when facing a mythic conscription. here is the plan:
-4 putrid leech
-3 sprouting thrinax
+3 doomblade
+2 jund charm
+2 malakir bloodwitch

This makes almost all cascade spells have an instant removal card( except blightning which kills the spell from the hand ). I had two possible opponents,RDW or Mythic Conscription. RDW spells defeat, Win if mythic. Its all up to the results after round 8. here's the Top 8 line up.


My opponent in the top 8 is Mythic Conscription.


Game 1:


My opponent kept his opening 7 cards while i mulled to 6 cards. having only two lands in hand, a swamp, dragon skull summit, terminate, leech and a bolt, i kept my hand. I never drew another land card till my opponent killed me with the combo... despite of the lose, i was confident on my deck post sideboard match-up.

Game 2:

I kept my opening 7 cards while he mulled to 6 cards. my deck was running smoothly as I played removal cards constantly on every creature he controlled. Finally he ran out of creatures giving me the signal to cast my siegegangs and sarkhan the mad.

Game 3:


We both kept our opening 7 cards. my opening was 3 lands and all removal, from lightning bolt to maelstrom pulse. After killing all of his creatures including a baneslayer succumbing to a bituminous blast and a lightning bolt, malakir bloodwitch made short work of his life total. I'm back in the national Championship!!

here's my decklist:

Jose Marie Sabale
Winner - Jund
Maindeck
Lands:
3 Forest
3 Mountain
3 Swamp
4 Savage Lands
4 Raging Ravine
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Rootbound Crag
2 Dragonskull Summit
2 Lavaclaw Reaches
---
27 Lands Creatures:
4 Putrid Leech
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Sprouting Thrinax
3 Siege-Gang Commander
---
15 Creatures

Other Spells:
4 Blightning
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Bituminous Blast
3 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Terminate
2 Sarkhan the Mad
---
18 Other Spells

Sideboard
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Jund Charm
3 Doom Blade
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 Duress
---
15 Sideboard Cards

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Jund for national qualifiers

a few hours from now, again.. i will try to qualify for the national championships. after losing in the top on a Jund mirror match-up, I've learned my lesson. I'm going to try this build recommended by my friend.


4 putrid leech
4 blood braid elf
4 sprouting thrinax
4 blightning
4 lightning bolt
3 maelstorm pulse
3 bituminous blast
3 seigegang commander
2 sarkhan the mad
2 tearminate

4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Savage Lands
4 Raging Ravine
3 Rootbound Crag
2 Dragonskull Summit
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
4 Forest
2 Mountain
3 Swamp

sideboard

2 Malakir Bloodwitch
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 duress
3 Doom Blade
2 Jund Charm

the original build of the deck has 2 rampant growth and 26 lands. after losing to jund mirror, we replaced the rampant growth with an addtional forest plus 2 bituminous blast, cut with the seigegang commander.

i tried this build last FNM tourney. here is my match-up report.

round 1: mono black control


after casting a putrid leech on turn two, he cast a wretched banquet, giving me a hint it was MBC. after a couple of blood braid elf and blightning, he lost to the thrinax tokens.

game 2 sideboards:

-4 lightning bolt
+4 duress

game 2 started with 1st turn duress, dropping mind sludge from a couple of removal spells and a planeswalker. turn 3 thrinax hits the board and dies to tendrils of agony. he casted the Ves then tutored for a card. hinting it was mind sludge. 5th turn I attacked the planeswalker, killing it, then passed a turn. he sludged me keeping my bituminous blast. He cast a gatekeeper, dealing bituminous to bloodbraid to thrinax. good game!

1 - 0

game 2

vampires: old bud RJ payad! nothing trilling here, after a few thrinax, it made short work of the undead.


game sideboard:

-2 sharkhan the mad
+2 jund charm

almost all of the vampire creatures dies to 2 damage except 3 kinds(bloodwitch, nighthawk and nocturnous). lucky for me, i didn't see any of these in game 2 as i made a SB error, not removing the blightning. after casting jund charm, killing all of his men, thrinax made short work of him. go thrinax!!

2 - 0

round 3

Naya Allies:

This round, my opponent is Jonee Tolentino and his Naya Allies. tough game 1 for me as I lost early to a perfect curve. damn so good in playing allies ( and i drew a blightning... errr...)

Sideboard:
-4 blightning
-4 thrinax
-1 terminate

+4 ruinblaster
+3 doomblade
+2 malakir bloodwitch

game 2 was bad for him as he mulled once and every creature met a removal spell. blood braid and leech does their job! game 3 was even more bad for him as he mulled down to 5 cards. his 1st turn was zigurat and a hada free blade. turn 2 was another freeblade while for me was a leech. it hold the attack of the two creatures as he passed a turn without a land drop. turn 3 , i pulsed the freebalde a swung for 4 damage, 4th turn was bloodbraid and another leech. all was history.

3 - 0

round 4: Monowhite tokens

May last opponent was fox. his first few turns was sky fisher, wall of omens and a blademaster. for me, almost all of my creature got pathed, i was down to 6 life when I drew a blast which cascaded to bloodbraid and i pulse. lucky for me i recovered and won that game.



Sideboard:
-4 thrinax
-3 blightning
+3 doomblade
+2 bloodwitch
+2 Jund charm

Turn 1 for him was a lynx. after that another lynx. after that... that was all. bad play for fox, he played an empty hand which jund takes advantage of. i noted that i should remove the remaining blightning for a least a ruinbalster for his emeria, sky ruin.

4 - 0

after the FNM, i hoped that i get to play againts jund mirror to hone my skills.the new build runs great as i'm not afraid to cascade into a rampant growth and having 3 bituminous blast comes handy when low on gas spells. Good luck to me later as I embark again a national qualifier to earn the crown back to the south. how i wish to be there in the championship and to be a member of the national team in japan. GO ACE PLAYER JUND!!!!

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