DeepSummary
Rachel Weeks and Josh Murphy discuss upgrading the Graveyard Overdrive preconstructed deck from Modern Horizons 3, which is a Jund (black, red, green) deck focused on the Lurgoyf creature type and self-mill strategies. They break down the deck's strengths, weaknesses, and key synergies, and provide a $50 budget upgrade guide by suggesting 10 cards to add and 10 cards to cut.
The hosts analyze the value of reprints in the precon, such as Tarmogoyf and other expensive staples. They aim to streamline the deck's strategy around Disa, the featured commander, by adding more evasive threats, self-mill cards, and card advantage engines. Notable additions include Dark Confidant, Liliana the Veil, and Greater Good.
Murphy and Weeks emphasize the importance of having evasive threats and self-mill in the opening hand to enable Disa's abilities. They discuss lines of play, combos, and synergies made possible by the upgrades, aiming to create a powerful and synergistic Jund deck that can grind out value and overwhelm opponents.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- The Graveyard Overdrive precon from Modern Horizons 3 is a Jund (black/red/green) deck focused on Lurgoyf creatures and self-mill strategies.
- A $50 budget upgrade aims to streamline the deck's strategy around the Disa commander by adding more evasive threats, self-mill effects, and card advantage engines.
- Notable additions include Tarmogoyf, Dark Confidant, Liliana the Veil, Greater Good, and synergy enablers like Invasion of Mercadia and Mimic Vat.
- Having evasive threats and self-mill in your opening hand is crucial to enabling Disa's combat damage and graveyard cheating abilities.
- The upgrades enable powerful lines of play, combos and haymaker turns where you can potentially draw your whole deck and bring all your Lurgoyfs into play.
- While focused on Disa, the hosts suggest an alternative self-mill focused build with Coram as the commander could also work with more dedicated self-mill support.
- The goal is to create a powerful, synergistic, value-grinding Jund deck that can control the board while overwhelming opponents with huge Tarmogoyf threats.
- There is analysis of the precon's reprint values and discussion of optimizing your opening hand and sequencing your plays for maximum effectiveness.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “If you have grist out on the battlefield and you also have a masquewood nexus, and you, mill grist, you cheated grist into play.“ by Rachel Weeks
- “If you don't have that self mill, then your deck is doing absolutely nothing.“ by Josh Murphy
- “Whenever you're mulliganing, I think those are pretty important things to have. If you don't have those in hand, even if it's like, yes, I have lands and I have spells. If you don't at least have both of those things, I'd at least think about throwing it back.“ by Josh Murphy
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The Command Zone
The Command Zone
6/14/24