Magic: the Gathering

19/7/2026 - My first constructed tournament win!

Today I split the blog into different sections. In this one, I will post about anything related to Magic that I want to share, like talk about my tournament results or a deck tech.

Last week, I finally won my first constructed event ever! It was a Pauper Win-a-box event, that I won with my Jund Wildfire list. This has been a big deal for me, since all the tournaments that I have won until this one were limited events like Drafts and Prereleases.

Jund Wildfire is a grindy deck with a big focus on generating artifacts and sacrificing them to get value with cards like Fanatical Offering or wipe the board with Krark-Clan Shaman. In fact, is pretty similar to Grixis Affinity, with a little twist.

The deck plays the card that gives its name to the deck, Cleansing Wildfire, targeting its own indestructible artifact lands, acting as a rampant growth ramp effect that also replaces itself, drawing a card. This pairs very well with the main reason the deck is playing green, being this Writhing Chrysallis, since you can cast Cleansing Wildfire on turn 2, play your 4th land on turn 3 and then slam this 4-drop a turn earlier.

This would be good enough by itself, but you can also target your opponents lands, since some decks in the format like Grixis Affinity don't play any basics lands, so you can attack their mana base. Other decks, like Dimir Terror, have basic lands of just one type, so you can also target their Ice Tunnel and cut their access to black mana, even if they get an Island.

The biggest weakness of the deck is that it really needs time to get going, so aggro matchups can be a little rough, specially Elves since the decklists usually run 4 mainboard copies of Masked Vandal, which can really hurt our mana base.

Burn and other red aggro matchups are not easy but definitely much more winnable since the deck features some life gain in the main deck in the form of Lembas and Pulse of Murasa and we are playing a full playset of Weather the Storm in the sideboard.

The good part is that it really shines in grindy matchups, like Grixis Affinity and Control decks.

Another issue with the deck is that it really needs time to finish the matches, so it's not unusual to not have enough time to finish your three matches per round.

In fact, this is kinda funny, because this happened to me in the first two rounds of the event and I started to think that I should switch to Grixis Affinity for the next tournament given it's a pretty similar deck but with some explosive openings a lot of the time, sacrificing grinding potential in exchange. It seems that I was wrong!