Podcast: Testing Jund Part 3 5/5/09
Will Price | May 6, 2009 | 3:35 pmMike, BDM and WillPoP test Jund Ramp against LSV “Persist” Tokens and GB Elves and discuss the virtues of playing Gift of the Gargantuan at Regionals next week.
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I am ecstatic that someone is finally talking about how good Gift of the Gargantuan is. I’ve been trying to convince friends that it’s essentially a Harmonize for one mana and one card less since it was spoiled. I have been running it in a Bloodbraid Elf aggro deck and its almost always a 2 for 1. Even when you only flip up a land you’re usually filtering away lands you don’t want to the bottom.
You mentioned Martial Coup here-due to the control bias in both of the big Planeswalkers in block (Ajani and Elspeth), Martial Coup turns out to be one of the defining cards in Block Constructed (at least in pre-Alara Reborn). It’s really hard to out-aggro decks running those planeswalkers, and when they hit that seventh mana it’s over unless you have a sweeper in response for it-it’s huge card advantage. Lately the only card that’s seen more play than it in Block is Elspeth. Every deck runs Coup, even white weenie runs it in the board.
It’s one of those “cadillac cards” that might be in a lot of the Pro Tour Block Constructed Decks, but it’s important to note that the card really shines because of the two format-defining planeswalkers in block.