Jund Ember Attrition

A Jund (red-green-black) attrition deck that uses cheap removal and hand disruption to survive the early game, then closes with efficient threats like Emberheart Challenger, Overlord of the Boilerbilges, and Scavenging Ooze while chipping in with burn.

Bakersbane Duo and Emberheart Challenger provide cheap early pressure that Giant Growth and Bushwhack can protect and push through combat. Duress strips key answers from the opponent's hand while Murder and Abrade clear blockers, and Lightning Strike and Shock finish the game by pointing directly at the opponent. Scavenging Ooze eats graveyards to shrink opposing creatures and gain life, buying time for your bigger threats.

Keep hands with two or three lands, at least one cheap threat or removal spell, and access to both a red and a green or black source. Mulligan hands with no early play, no colored source for your spells, or only expensive cards. An opening of Duress or Lightning Strike plus a two-drop is ideal.

Early game: disrupt with Duress, trade removal with Shock, Lightning Strike, and Abrade, and deploy Bakersbane Duo to start pressuring. Mid game: resolve Emberheart Challenger or Scavenging Ooze, use Murder to answer large threats, and attack whenever profitable. Late game: close out with Overlord of the Boilerbilges, Demonic Junker, and Season of Gathering while top-decked burn finishes the opponent.

The mana base relies on taplands, so it can stumble against very fast aggro draws. Decks with heavy card advantage can out-grind this list, and it has few answers to planeswalkers, enchantments, or graveyard hate that shuts off Scavenging Ooze. Flooding on lands with few creatures is a real risk.