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Jund 'Em Out

SorceryBlack manaRed manaGreen mana

Six cards, one name, and each one a Jund midrange staple you could recite in your sleep: Abrupt Decay, Blightning, Bloodbraid Elf, Lightning Bolt, Liliana of the Veil, Tarmogoyf. That is not a random spread; it is the archetype's greatest-hits list compressed into a single spell that names the deck it's saluting. The build only reads as coherent if you already know the good-stuff curve it's referencing, which is the whole point: it does cultural work before it does gameplay work. Mechanically, it copies the card chosen at random and lets you cast the copy for free, so three mana can pay out anything from a Lightning Bolt to a full planeswalker to a Bloodbraid Elf whose own cascade chains further down the pile. Retrace is the lever that turns one roll into a habit: pitch a land, pull it back from the graveyard, spin again, converting flood and dead cards into repeated pulls. A genuinely random spell wed to a repeatable recursion cost puts it closer to the coin-flip and dice-roll tradition of joke design than to anything you'd tune a curve around: a slot machine wearing a shrine's clothes, built to be recognized before it ever resolves.

Jund 'Em Out (mb2)
MB2 · #596rare
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Retrace (Sorry, no room for reminder text.) Choose one at random. Create a copy of the chosen card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. • Abrupt Decay • Blightning • Bloodbraid Elf • Lightning Bolt • Liliana of the Veil • Tarmogoyf
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