Dear Mark, Mimic Jund will Devour All!

Dear Mark,
We were texting earlier today about Extended and what a viable deck would be, and while I mentioned I really like Mimic Vat Jund, let me explain a little more. First, I feel like it's really important to be a beatdown/rock deck right now simply because there's no meta established, which makes control weird. I found this article on BlackBorder.com which gives a very minimal amount of insight to the format. I think it's really weird though that Treehouse wasn't mentioned considering how well it did and how little it loses relative to the last Pro Tour.

But enough with the other decks, let's talk about Jund! By Jund I really mean BGR, considering the Devour mechanic is bad. In Jund of old, here were the cards that defined the deck:

BLOODBRAID ELF
Maelstrum Pulse
Bituminous Blast
Blightning
Sprouting Thrynax
Putrid Leech
Terminate

All of these cards except for Sprouting Thrynax are contenders for the deck, although based on where i am going to go with this deck, I think Blightning is actually going to be the first cut. This new form of Jund will still have those old cards, but with great tools that stretch to all ends of the Extended sets. What works well with Mimic Vat? You mentioned Fulminator Mage, and I must agree, that card is nuts! The mana fixing is SO good that there's no reason to NOT play a multi-colored deck. Fulminator Mage + Mimic Vat is pretty much good game unless they get a Naturalize or a Shatter. But by the time they get that, you may have already Stone Rained them twice, and theres no coming back from that disadvantage. Some other cards that would be wonderful to have under a Vat are:

Vampire Hexmage
Skinrender
Cloudthresher
Mournwhelk
Shriekmaw
Siege-Gang Commander

These are all pretty good choices, and I would also like to add that having any legendary creature (your opponents, as you probably shouldn't play any - it doesn't work well with cascade) under a vat is devastating. I mentioned to you before, but I will say it again, if you want to crush Treehouse, just get a Doran under your Mimic Vat, then they will be left with a bunch of walls.

Here is a list I thought up:

4x Bloodbraid Elf
4x Putrid Leech
4x Fulminator Mage
3x Shriekmaw
1x Vampire Hexmage
1x Mournwhelk
2x Skinrender
2x Grave Titan

3x Bituminous Blast
4x Maelstrom Pulse
3x Terminate
4x Mimic Vat

25x Lands

It's 1am so im not going to get into the mana right now, but what I would start with is 2 Reflecting Pools, 4 Savage Lands, Raging Ravines, and Shadowmoore/Eventide Lands.

We were also talking about sime sideboard stuff, and I an obvious one is Volcanic Fallout and Great Stable Stag for Faeries, and Volcanic Fallout can be used for other token/low toughness decks. The only danger with it is that many of your creatures have low toughness, so be sure to have a couple Vats on hand. Treehouse should be a very easy matchup, but Scapeshift may be interesting. In that matchup, you just need to race and hope to get your Fulminator-Vat combo going to slow them down.

This deck should do well against other creature decks because there's 15 creature removal spells. Also, another thing of note is that there is 7 cascade spells. There is almost nothing that you wouldn't want to cascade into except maybe Terminate on an empty board.

Overall I think this would be an awesome deck to work with for any upcoming Extended events. I look forward to hearing your response.

Sincerely,
Ryan