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I wrote a small tournament report from playing RG Scapeshift in SCG Regionals this past weekend. For spoilers, I finished 7-2 for 22nd.

https://fetchshockblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/scg-regionals-modern-report-rg-scapeshift/

My biggest thing is I have been hardcore testing against affinity and a timely bolt can be all you need to get to your combo of put them low enough to win. As for eldrazi, they still have mimics and endless ones when they try to go ridiculous, and their slower beat down lose to our combo so long as they don't though-knot seer it away. I will admit I'm not an e left on the eldrazi match though, and I can see fog doing work against infect though.

Well, so I think I'll try the Bolts again with Joey's list saturday

For SB : Jaddi Offshoot or Baloth ?

Well Heenock: does your play testing disagree? I would never tell someone their wrong unless I know so. To be honest I am really new to the deck and just decided to start play testing because I needed a deck that could handle the new meta (G/B life of the loam featuring prime time wasn't doing it) and have fallen in love. I only kno against affinity I think bolt is better but I could be wrong. As for sideboard, I like jaddi but he dies so easily. You have to play him turn two so you immediately get the life gain at least before they bolt him, so maybe a 2/1 split? I admit once again I have a crush on ballots though so I could be wrong. But he can be another win con, can't be bolted and can block all day against burn and a lot of zoo decks.4 mana can be slow I admit, but he can also come in against other matchups too.

Its fine if Jaddi is immediately bolted because that is one less bolt that goes to your face. They only get so many turns before you combo them, so the long game value plan isn't as important.

That is true but Obstinate Baloth can come in versus a wider range of decks, against and Liliaa of the Veil deck, any deck that can use Slaughter Games for our wincons, or a Crumble to Dust or anything of the likes. It also blocks better versus zoo and burn. Granted, Jaddi Offshoot is harder to skullcrack and comes down sooner. Really it depends on what you expect in your Meta. If you go blind, I always go with the Baloth. Besides, he looks cute and cuddly.

I'm not a fan of the Baloth. Sure, it's cute that you can discard to lilly, but I'm not impressed with stats. If you want to go the route of a green lifegain fatty, I'd rather have thragtusk. I'm not necessarily worried about the clock or hand disruption against the BGx decks; what I am worried about is LD. For this, Pulse of Murasa and Greater Gargadon are decent options, where the pulse gains life against burn decks. However, I feel that burn and infect are the scariest decks to play against. For this reason, Jaddi Offshoot and Spellskites are premier sideboard options. If you don't like Jaddi, courser of kruphix is a good addition to the maindeck.

Drmcninjalite : Yes I have test vs Infect with 4 bolts main deck and 2 fogs in side, 6-2 for me, So I changed my judgment, bolts can save us vs Infect, Fog is also good but no needed in MD just in sideboard.

In cased anyone missed it, Thien Nguyen wrote a small report on his Pro Tour 8-2 showing

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/455h9v/hi_im_thien_nguyen_and_i_went_82_at_the_pro_tour/

RG Titan Shift promoted to Developing Competitive!

For more on the 2/13 metagame update, please read the post in the metagame thread here:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/566735-modern-metagame-discussion-thread-updated-1-15?comment=1026

Excellent, thank you!

That is awesome!!!!

Are the fogs better than sudden shocks versus infect? Also, with summoners pacts we could play Melira out of the board. It sucks but if that is a matchup we can't beat than we got to push it right?

Cinder Glade does so much work in this deck. I've tried running 2 Stomping Ground/3 Cinder Glade and did not notice much of a difference.

Also, its' not the worst hand to keep. You can opt to not T1 Search and just hardcast it on T3, which will still allow you to play a two mana spell in the same turn.

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Cinder Glade does so much work in this deck. I've tried running 2 Stomping Ground/3 Cinder Glade and did not notice much of a difference.

Also, its' not the worst hand to keep. You can opt to not T1 Search and just hardcast it on T3, which will still allow you to play a two mana spell in the same turn.

I have been playing this deck on Xmage a lot lately, and i can't wait to finish building it on paper.
my current deck i have built is mono Utron, and i like the deck but it is not so great right now....but I'm getting side tracked now. i have been playing with four cinder glade and two stomping ground.
so far it has been great like that. also i play three courser of kruphix in the MB and Two anger of the gods MB (plus four bolt) and it also has been good with all the aggo decks right now.

I decided to start making this deck today. I was wondering if there was any videos on how to properly play Titan Scapeshift?

The top 8 of the Toronto 2016 open was streamed and featured GR in all 3 rounds.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_F5vlRZ_Mpl02vHe5KAmg

I would also suggest reading through Thien's posts on Reddit. Some of his comment history has a Sideboarding guide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/3u6tmh/hi_im_thien_nguyen_im_the_guy_that_top_8d_gp/
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/455h9v/hi_im_thien_nguyen_and_i_went_82_at_the_pro_tour/

It just 5-0ed on mtgo yet again. So there is a least eveidence this deck can survive, if not thrive in the new meta.

SCG Louisville had a RG Scapeshift finish top 32! Nice!

SCG Louisville had a RG Scapeshift finish top 32! Nice! Smile

Has a deck list been posted? I just finished this deck this weekend. My local meta is Eldrazi, Lantern, Infect, AFFINITY heavy right now. Thoughts on this deck list I just finished for that Meta?