My LGS players are starting to have a real disdain for playing against me. 9/10 times I'm on RG Titan-Shift and I've been the King of the Hill so to speak for the past few months just about in our meta.
Usually when I sit down it turns into an eye roll fest and players talking about how the round is gonna be pointless for them or along those lines.
sounds like they need to up their game! you're playing a reasonably competitive deck but not top-tier unbeatable, and we all know ramp has its weaknesses. are the people in your shop just reluctant to switch around in the modern card-pool? If i knew Titan-Shift was in the meta and often at the top-tables, i'd be playing something with a positive matchup (maybe even RUG scapeshift haha!)
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Modern: G Tron, Vannifar, Jund, Druid/Vizier combo, Humans, Eldrazi Stompy (Serum Powder), Amulet, Grishoalbrand, Breach Titan, Turns, Eternal Command, As Foretold Living End, Elves, Cheerios, RUG Scapeshift
For a big mana deck, it breaks some traditional rules for ramp decks. Ramp decks used to suffer from having to draw Rampant Growth when you needed threats.
these are all cards Tron *needs* to run in order to have any sort of consistency, or even just to survive the early game. that's 24 cards just to "grease the wheels" and I didn't even include Ancient Stirrings. Basically half the deck is durdly-setup-cards or "keep me alive pls" cards. of course it suffers from dodgy topdecks, and *especially* now that Eye of Ugin is gone, so the land-tutor spells can no longer indirectly get you a threat when topdecked. now the deck is much worse.
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Modern: G Tron, Vannifar, Jund, Druid/Vizier combo, Humans, Eldrazi Stompy (Serum Powder), Amulet, Grishoalbrand, Breach Titan, Turns, Eternal Command, As Foretold Living End, Elves, Cheerios, RUG Scapeshift
sounds like they need to up their game! you're playing a reasonably competitive deck but not top-tier unbeatable, and we all know ramp has its weaknesses. are the people in your shop just reluctant to switch around in the modern card-pool? If i knew Titan-Shift was in the meta and often at the top-tables, i'd be playing something with a positive matchup (maybe even RUG scapeshift haha!)
just FYI:
4x expedition map
4x chromatic sphere
4x chromatic star
4x pyroclasm (or equivalent in another colour)
4x oblivion stone (maybe 3 at a push but it's debatable)
these are all cards Tron *needs* to run in order to have any sort of consistency, or even just to survive the early game. that's 24 cards just to "grease the wheels" and I didn't even include Ancient Stirrings. Basically half the deck is durdly-setup-cards or "keep me alive pls" cards. of course it suffers from dodgy topdecks, and *especially* now that Eye of Ugin is gone, so the land-tutor spells can no longer indirectly get you a threat when topdecked. now the deck is much worse.