Welcome back everyone! Today we explore the... Explorer format on MTG Arena. We played Omnath on Wednesday and today we are playing a sweet Jund deck with Demonic Bargain and Bolas's Citadel.
Let us go ahead and look at the decklist!
Time Stamps:
02:55 - Match 1
30:51 - Match 2
Jund Demonic Citadel | Explorer | Ali Aintrazi
- Creatures (26)
- 2 Callous Bloodmage
- 4 Gilded Goose
- 4 Llanowar Elves
- 4 Mayhem Devil
- 4 Priest of Forgotten Gods
- 4 Prosperous Innkeeper
- 4 Woe Strider
- Planeswalkers (4)
- 4 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
- Instants (4)
- 4 Collected Company
- Sorceries (2)
- 2 Demonic Bargain
- Artifacts (6)
- 2 Courier's Briefcase
- 4 Bolas's Citadel
- Lands (22)
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 2 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
- 2 Ziatora's Proving Ground
- 4 Blooming Marsh
- 4 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
- 4 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
- 4 Overgrown Tomb
- Sideboard (11)
- 2 The Meathook Massacre
- 1 Ray of Enfeeblement
- 3 Ray of Enfeeblement
- 4 Thoughtseize
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
The idea of the deck is to try and get out Bolas's Citadel as quickly as possible. We can do it on turns three, four, and five if we have the right ramp creatures. After Citadel is out, we are looking for Mayhem Devil so we can activate the Citadel and deal our opponent's twenty damage in a single turn. This will go up if you have multiple Mayhem Devils out! Innkeeper keeps our life up so we can keep using the Citadel and Woe Strider is great at clearing the top of the deck of lands. If all else fails, we are still a sacrifice deck with Collected Company as back up! It is just fun a nice to have the "Oops, I win" button when playing Bolas's Citadel!
That's it for today, thanks for reading/watching!
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Ali Aintrazi
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