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@Serracollector it still comes into play tapped then amulet untaps it so that won't work.

@stormanimagus Having played a lot of jund, I don't think we're currently in a good format for it with all the tinker running around.

Its more of an esper mentor deck that I call doomsday for fun. Doomsday won me one game that was already pretty locked up, I almost had a turn two doomsday against smennen when he mulled to 3 but he hit multiple cabal therapies off some good dredges. It closes out the game fast when you've locked things up with teferi and narset and can be a surprise win game 1 that makes people board weird but it gets sided out in almost every matchup. Mentor is the main win I just really like the card doomsday and played it for fun. That said it makes sideboarding really easy since the doomsday package is usually about how many cards you want to bring in +/- a preordain.

@stormanimagus if you're are planning on playing it online, I would not play maddening hex. Last I heard it was bugged and deals no damage.

@botvinik A new article was just posted today. You can also find the archive of past articles here.

@darkspiredragon Just announced this morning. Legacy events are the weekend of November 19-21 and Vintage events are the weekend of November 26-28. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-announcements-october-12-2021

@chubbyrain1 I can't really speak to saga mirrors as I haven't played saga much myself but I actually think saga was great for the format in that it made things a lot more interactive. Saga, and to a lesser extent ragavan, making it more important to interact with permanents on the board helped increase the range of viable decks. I had a really good run with jund during that time because suddenly tinker decks cared about you interacting with their board. I haven't found ragavan mirrors to be that bad either. As a 2/1 ragavan can't attack through anything so even if you can't immediately remove it you can just keep it from attacking by having a blocker. I think a lot of these cards like hullbreacher and Narset that suck to play against in the mirror are really not that bad if you just play a different deck. That doesn't help so much when the decks you want to play are hosed by those cards but I think they have plenty of counterplay. I agree lodestone golem is probably a safe unrestrict in a force of vigor world but since I am biased against shops I would still rather not see it happen. Unrestricting mentor on the other hand I think would just make every non mentor non combo deck completely unplayable.

That gush impression inspired an esper doomsday list I took to 3-3 in the challenge last week. It seems like the combo of lavinia and teferi is pretty powerful. Teferi definitely opens up a lot of interesting lines. Did you have a hard time playing leovold at all? DRS probably helps with that but what do you think about narset?

It could also work pretty well in a grixis deck with dreadhorde arcanist.

@john-cox I've played a lot of jund online. The format has been pretty hostile with doomsday being the best deck but whenever shops or bug is good jund is fine. I 5-0'd with this list in March and I think it is representative of how I would build Jund these days:
Lands - 18
1x Badlands
3x Bayou
1x Strip Mine
2x Taiga
1x Tropical Island
4x Verdant Catacombs
4x Wasteland
2x Wooded Foothills
Artifacts - 6
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Soul-Guide Lantern
Creatures - 14
4x Deathrite Shaman
4x Dark Confidant
1x Collector Ouphe
3x Tarmogoyf
1x Klothys, God of Destiny
1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
Instant - 16
1x Mental Misstep
1x Ancestral Recall
2x Lightning Bolt
3x Pyroblast
4x Abrupt Decay
3x Assassin's Trophy
2x Force of Vigor
Sorcery - 3
1x Time Walk
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Green Sun's Zenith
Planeswalkers - 3
3x Wrenn and Six

Sideboard - 15
3x Mindbreak Trap
1x Pithing Needle
2x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2x Yixlid Jailer
1x Opposition Agent
3x Ravenous Trap
1x Collector Ouphe
2x Force of Vigor

As Jund your gameplan is usually to grind out your opponent with 1-for-1 trades while putting stuff on board that accrues you value over time. Playing more mana dorks to let you drop a bomb on turn 3 runs counter to Jund's strengths. You want your spells to be as flexible and to do as much as possible. Your spells are cheap, you don't need the extra mana. You really don't want to draw a hierarch later in the game. Ragavan could be interesting. I don't think Jund wants Void Mirror at all.

Recent oath lists playing rune-scarred demon like this one have mostly been using it to set up a kill using underworld breach. Getting two pieces of the combo seems pretty good and can be fairly resilient letting you make a pile from breach, lotus, brain freeze or sevinne's reclamation depending on what you need/what you milled over with oath.

@lienielsen You shouldn't need to use the wayback machine. If you're just looking at the popular decks/metagame section on mtggoldfish it will show you the most recent decks but if you are interested in finding decks from a particular time period or using a particular card you can use their advanced deck search to find those. For instance here is a list of all the tournament finishes for vintage decks containing at least one copy of ragavan from the beginning of October to today.

@john-cox I don't think this interacts with dauthi voidwalker.

Seems like this could be alright as thoughtcast 9-12 in 8cast.