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If scapeshift is taken out of the deck then it is not titanshift already. it is more of a r/g aggro deck instead. lol..
I just play back magic fairly recently after 1 year or so not playing magic and I did up the R/G titanshift deck namely because I have the RUG scapeshift shell and with current heavy aggro meta in my LGS, it seems like a control version of RUG shift is not very good and hence I did up titanshift instead and found it to be relatively nice. Some questions and I hope you guys can help me answer abit on the deck. Appreciate any answers.
1) Is 4 Valakut, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle too many? Are there any situations whereby 2 or 3 valakuts is not enough? From what I remember, most RUG version play 2 valakut previously so im wondering if there are special rationale to use 4.
2) What matchups do you guys think is the worst for Titanshift? Aggro like affinity, infect? Control like Jeskai Nahiri or RUG scapeshift? midrange like jund/abzan? or Combo like Ad nauseam, storm?
3) Are there any Sideboard cards that will shutdown this deck? Like how 1 stony silence can affect affinty and etc?
Thanks for all the advise again in advance.
Whenever a player plays a spell, that player keeps priority.
Whenever a spell resolves, the active player gets priority.
You as the active player have the priority.
You casted Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and have nothing to do after casting Ugin and so you passed the priority to your opponent who cast dig through time and since he have nothing else to do after casting DTT, he passes the priority back to you and since you have nothing to do as well, spells start to resolve.
Stack will be like this:
Top of the stack
Dig through time
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
Bottom of the stack.
Spells on top of the stack will resolve first and hence Dig through time will resolve and he get to look at the top 7 cards and choose 2.
After DTT resolves, the active player which is you get the priority back and you have nothing to do and thus you passed the priority back to your opponent and the opponent now have the chance to response again which he in turn cast Disdainful Stroke and pass back the priority to you and since you have nothing to do, spells will start to resolve and hence your Ugin is countered upon the resolution of dislainful stroke.
Hope the above helps..
I used DTT very well in a uwr shell and it often help me closed the games but when I added it to my twin or scapeshift deck, it is very obvious that no doubt the card is very good in control but it also at the same time pushes combo up very well.. so in reality, most control usable cards would somehow find a way into the combo decks that can make uses of them as well and this will never help a combo vs control matchup.
I play both twin and scapeshift and occasionally make my playgroup and friends play scapeshift for me to try out twin.. It isn't that bad but can hard to combo off at times..
Edit: scapeshift does run izzet charms and most recent version always have bolts as well plus electrolyze for removal. different verison have sweepers though I think with recent list, they might have taken out since cruise was banned so that does make the tempo plan so much better at the moment.
I mean the main point is what is the thread aiming to accomplish at the end? If it is to have high quality discussion for competitive play, I guess some organization will be necessary at the end to prevent the diluting of quality discussion and have lesser players asking the basic questions that are not relevant to the style of play all the time.
Will be good if in the beginning of the primer, there can be links to the different threads if split.. I guess quality discussion should be prioritized over the convenience purposes of being able to find all the information in 1 thread. In fact, the only convenience you get is just that you only have to stick to one thread to look but if you really think carefully, sometimes the hassle of having to look through so many different pages just to get some information regarding the variations that you want is actually more time consuming than the fact of having to just go another thread that is more specialized in that sub archtype.
The only cons I do see with the spliting of the sub archtypes is that generally getting good discussion in other threads will be an issue.. Even in the UwR thread which was set up more than 1/2 yr ago, it took only 4 days for this newly posted twin thread to have more posts than it. Which means people are still going to flock back over to UR twin thread to find suggestions and ideas if other twin thread is inactive or does not have very active discussion..
Welcome to Magic and there is alot to learn and take your time to slowly learn and have fun. Just some tips for you.
1) FNM stands for Friday Night Magic so it is usually on Friday's night.. lol.. Do make sure that you check out if the FNM format is standard or modern or other format though. Most is standard although some stores run modern FNM as well.
2) And if you have a smart phone, you can go and download apps like mtg familiar and it have usually all the information of the cards. Useful tool for browsing and looking at cards like when you are bored or travelling and stuff.
3) Try to decide on format that you wanna play first before you spend money on buying packs, singles and etc. In general, it is harder to form a decent deck just by purchasing boosters or packs. Singles are more expensive but can save you some $ in the long run but make sure you check the prices of the singles on mtg websites first before you buy in case traders over quote you.
4) Be sure to understand that standard format do rotates though. lol. this means if you play standard, after rotation, cards from the rotated block will no longer be legal to be used in standard format and hence playing standard format means your deck constantly have to change cards here and there.
4) Yes. You should try to make more friends. Having friends to play together will make your game alot more enjoyable.