{"ops":[{"insert":"Alright so to preface this deck, I started playing with Prossh and ever since then my Jund portfolio has grown to 14 decks. I love my Jund, but something was missing. A political deck. "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/ncc/92/vazi-keen-negotiator"},"insert":"Vazi, Keen Negotiator"},{"insert":" was my first build and the deck worked for a time. But as playgroups started getting wise to this political deck I found if I couldn't adequately protect my commander, then I had just given my opponents a bunch of free mana and I had no way of benefitting from it. So it was back to the drawing boards where I stumbled across Vaevictus. Now when Vaevictus came out in M19 everyone agreed paying 6 mana and waiting to swing was not worth 3 chaos warp triggers. But what if we didn't do that. What if we leveraged Vaevictus triggers into a sort of political advantage. That way we can blow up problem permanents and reward other players for being an ally by targeting a permanent they want gone. Now all the sudden I don't just have 3 chaos warp triggers, I can stack everyone's decks to give them exactly what they want and in return they can aim those big baddies elsewhere.\n\nNow I present to you Jund Grouphug:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Stacking the Deck"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/dst/39/chittering-rats"},"insert":"Chittering Rats"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/pca/61/brutalizer-exarch"},"insert":"Brutalizer Exarch"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/nph/118/noxious-revival"},"insert":"Noxious revival"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/emn/101/prying-questions"},"insert":"Prying Questions"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/m20/113/scheming-symmetry"},"insert":"Scheming Symmetry"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/2ed/213/natural-selection"},"insert":"Natural Selection"},{"insert":"\n\nMany of these cards were early jund staples repurposed to stack our deck as well as opponent's decks-for favors. Noxious Revival is an absolutely busted card and I bet up until now 90% of it's users didn't realize it says \"a\" graveyard. Not just your graveyard any graveyard. That means in response to Vaevictus' trigger we can slip any card from any graveyard to the top of that player's library. If someone is being a jerk face and doesn't like your political deck. Great Noxious Revival that counterspell to the top of their deck. Now they lost a permanent and they don't get anything from Vaevictus' trigger and they lose a draw. Your friend over there lost their Avacyn put it back on top of their library for them and have them promise their board doesn't look your way. So on and so forth with all these cards. Oh yeah, and if WOTC can release proxies then I don't think anyone in their right mind should pay $300 for a proxy non-tournament legal version of an Alpha card, Natural Selection. Natural Selection is a color break but a useful card nonetheless. We don't have access to blue so top deck manipulation is a luxury.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Group Hug"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/c13/131/widespread-panic"},"insert":"Widespread Panic"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/ons/291/tempting-wurm"},"insert":"Tempting Wurm"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/174/gate-to-the-aether"},"insert":"Gate to the Aether"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/card/mmq/248/game-preserve"},"insert":"Game Preserve"},{"insert":"\n\nThose of you who have played grouphug before are probably familiar with Tempting Wurm and Gate to the Aether. Relatively straight forward symmetrical effects, however something grouphug decks have issues with is someone tends to run away with the game when given such easy ways to put their hand onto the battlefield without having to pay the mana costs. Luckily we are in Jund and we can get rid of problems very easily. Next a card you have only seen if you played against or with a Prossh precon from 2013, Widespread Panic. This was in the early days of precons where the scope of the deck was... a little unfocused. This card has nothing to do with Prossh and kind of struggles to find a home. According to EDHrec less than 1K decks run this card and for good reason, what's the point? Well it's originally designed to punish tutors by forcing you to put a card back on top of your library after you shuffle. But here this card effectively allows symmetrical topdeck manipulation so the next Vaevictus trigger packs a guaranteed punch. Game Preserve is another equally unpopular card as it requires very specific circumstances to be good and even then allowing your opponents to also have a free creature is usually bad. This is group hug though everyone wants free creatures and we can make it hit with relative frequency.\n\nGroup Hug decks can be game warping and offer unfun play patterns where the person with the best deck runs away with the game even faster. As such discuss with your pod before whipping this guy out, people have to be in the mood to play a commander sub-game, Arch-Frenemy. Also as touched on above, people have become wise to group hug decks. They usually politic their way to a sneaky victory by exhausting your resources and grinding out the game or allowing the best deck at the table an easy W. Jund grouphug offers a way out, but this deck still makes for grindy games and rewards turtling strategies. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Play at your own risk!"},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}