For this set of videos, Reid requested I play the three breakout decks from Pro Tour: Return to Ravnica, which were Second Breakfast, robots, and infect.

"Stanislav Cifka’s Eggs"

• Spells (43)
• 2 Silence
• 4 Faith's Reward
• 4 Second Sunrise
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 3 Sleight of Hand
• 4 Reshape
• 4 Serum Visions
• 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
• 4 Chromatic Sphere
• 4 Chromatic Star
• 4 Conjurer's Bauble
• 4 Elsewhere Flask
• 4 Lotus Bloom

• Lands (17)
• 1 Plains
• 7 Island
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 2 Misty Rainforest
• 2 Scalding Tarn
• 4 Ghost Quarter

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Echoing Truth
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Grapeshot
• 4 Leyline of Sanctity
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 2 Pithing Needle
• 2 Silence

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I don’t know everything there is to know about this deck, but there are a few things I have noticed from playing with it (against Jund) and against it (as Jund). The matchup against Jund is very good for a few reasons.

Second, you can leave most of your cantrips in play (Chromatic Sphere, Chromatic Star, and Conjurer's Bauble) to try to draw into Faith's Reward or Second Sunrise the turn you need to go off. Doing arithmetic on how much damage Jund can deal you on any possible turn is very important since waiting increases the chance you can go off successfully.

In post-boarded games, I wouldn’t bother boarding Echoing Truth or Pithing Needle unless you know for sure the Jund player has some sort of permanent-based hate spell (Leyline of the Void and so forth). I boarded as follows:

+1 Grapeshot

+4 Leyline of Sanctity

−3 Sleight of Hand

−2 Silence

I went 1–1 in matches against Reid’s Jund list as above, losing Game 2 of the second match by failing to play around Jund Charm when I could have done so. It would still have been really hard for me to win that game, but it was certainly possible.

"Gabriel Nassif’s Robots"

• Creatures (26)
• 2 Master of Etherium
• 4 Arcbound Ravager
• 4 Memnite
• 4 Ornithopter
• 4 Signal Pest
• 4 Steel Overseer
• 4 Vault Skirge

• Spells (18)
• 4 Thoughtcast
• 2 Welding Jar
• 4 Cranial Plating
• 4 Springleaf Drum
• 4 Mox Opal

• Lands (16)
• 1 Island
• 3 Glimmervoid
• 4 Blinkmoth Nexus
• 4 Inkmoth Nexus
• 4 Darksteel Citadel

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Ancient Grudge
• 3 Dismember
• 4 Etched Champion
• 1 Ethersworn Canonist
• 1 Rest in Peace
• 2 Thoughtseize
• 1 Torpor Orb
• 1 Whipflare

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This is Nassif’s list from Top 16 of Pro Tour: Return to Ravnica. His list eschews red (which has Galvanic Blast and Shrapnel Blast) for blue (for Thoughtcast and Master of Etherium). I suspect his list is slightly softer to Jund since he has no main-decked Etched Champions, but the matchup is still probably quite favorable. Thoughtcast lets the deck recover from Jund’s attrition, and Master of Etherium is a big guy that only Terminate, Maelstrom Pulse, or Abrupt Decay can really handle.

I sideboarded as follows:

−4 Memnite

+4 Etched Champion

The theory was Memnite just plays into all of the hate cards that Jund boards into (Jund Charm, Pyroclasm, and so forth) while being very easy to block.

I went 2–0 in games against Reid’s Jund list as above, and the matchup felt pretty easy.

"Kelvin Chew’s Infect"

• Creatures (14)
• 4 Blighted Agent
• 4 Glistener Elf
• 4 Noble Hierarch
• 2 Ichorclaw Myr

• Spells (27)
• 2 Apostle's Blessing
• 4 Groundswell
• 4 Might of Old Krosa
• 4 Vines of Vastwood
• 3 Gitaxian Probe
• 3 Serum Visions
• 4 Sleight of Hand
• 3 Rancor

• Lands (19)
• 1 Island
• 2 Forest
• 2 Breeding Pool
• 4 Inkmoth Nexus
• 4 Misty Rainforest
• 4 Verdant Catacombs
• 2 Pendelhaven

• Sideboard (15)
• 3 Creeping Corrosion
• 2 Dismember
• 2 Negate
• 4 Spell Pierce
• 4 Spellskite

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I went 1–2 in matches against Reid. There is a ton of play and interaction in this matchup, so I think if I were to play more games in this matchup, it is certainly winnable. I think the blue cantrip version here is worse against Jund than Ari Lax’s G/b build with more pump spells and Plague Stingers.

I am still not sure of the optimal sideboard plan against Jund here (since you want all of your Spell Pierces and Spellskites, but I think that makes the opponents’ Ancient Grudges too good against you, and I could see a plan that involves taking out Ichorclaw Myr).

Overall, I think all three of these decks are powerful enough to warrant consideration for the Grand Prix this weekend. I will not be in attendance, but I wish all of you the best of luck in the Grand Prix and in any Return to Ravnica Limited Pro Tour Qualifiers you choose to play in.

I will try my best to respond to any comments here or on Twitter.

Thanks for watching!

Jarvis