Stuck on BBE Shift, I'm refining my deck for many months I won or made top 8 at many store tournaments (40-50 players), a lot of 5-0, 4-1 on MTGO...
Sunday is the big day of the PPTQ.
I much prefer BBE than the others flex spots, this way to put the pressure at the same time as to play a ramp spell is devastating against most decks of the meta which is very "control" in my country and on mtgo.
I took the deck on MTGO and fell in love with this weird mechanic who is called "dredge"
I took @Sodekk / Sodeq's list (thanks dude !) and I did 2 Friendly league.
4-1 both league :
2-0 vs White Eldrazi Taxes
1-2 vs Burn
2-0 vs Green Tron
2-0 vs Elves
2-0 vs Mardu Pyro
2-0 vs Hollow One
1-2 vs Hollow One
2-0 vs Jeskai Control
1-0 vs UW Control (he finished without time after having lost the first game)
2-1 vs Affinity
so 8-2 and I find the deck extremely solid in the competitive meta.
Often my opponents keep a hand not great with graveyard hate and is punished for that.
Before running this through a competitive league I cut 2 Ooze and the 1 Huntmaster for 2 Blood Moon and a 21st land. I also cut the 2 Crashers and the Finks in the SB for a Thragtusk and 2 Roast.
I ended up going 4-1 in the league, only losing to a Hollow One/Vengevine deck who, in game 3 on the play went T1 cycle Street Wraith, land Looting discard 2 Vengevine, cast 2 Hollow One. There isn't a deck in modern capable of beating that draw so I guess i'm ok with that being my only loss. But the deck did feel pretty good, I had been playing stock ponza online for about a week before this and was winning at a somewhat decent rate but there are a handful of games where you draw Stone Rain and it's just a blank piece of cardboard, I wanted to try this to have more individually powerful cards while keeping the busted mana acceleration of Elf+Sprawl and the best disruption in the format, Blood Moon.
titanshift numbers have been dropping, it does too little vs storm, especially when they play the fetchless manabase (then they have only gifts for searching), it does little vs etron, nothing vs humans, nothing vs affinity and most control players play uw with only a small number of fetches.
haha nice joke ! Etron is bye for titanshift, human too (i'm 10-1 vs human in comp league), affinity is 50/50... just agree that storm is bad
no Hour was not good enough during my test, often I would have liked to have hate instead of hour, and hour is not synonymous with "cast = I won" in contrary
with scapeshift.
Vs faerie I have cut 4 bolt for EE, Guttural Response and Witchbane Orb.
I hesitated to remove Anger and add Baloth for putting pressure, I may have to do it...
Round 1 : 2-0 vs Eldra Tron
Round 2 : 1-2 vs Temur Delver
Round 3 : 2-1 vs Bant Knightfall
Round 4 : 2-0 vs Eldra Tron
Round 5 : 2-1 vs RG Aggro (with 4 magus of the moon!)
I finished first but get crushed 0-2 in 1/4 vs UB Faeries ...
Yea, who cares about those cards. Prismatic omen is the only one that bothers me, and they run 0-1. If it matters, we have other counterspells, and can always cryptic bounce it.
Sunday is the big day of the PPTQ.
I much prefer BBE than the others flex spots, this way to put the pressure at the same time as to play a ramp spell is devastating against most decks of the meta which is very "control" in my country and on mtgo.
List :
wish me good luck for sunday
I took @Sodekk / Sodeq's list (thanks dude !) and I did 2 Friendly league.
4-1 both league :
2-0 vs White Eldrazi Taxes
1-2 vs Burn
2-0 vs Green Tron
2-0 vs Elves
2-0 vs Mardu Pyro
2-0 vs Hollow One
1-2 vs Hollow One
2-0 vs Jeskai Control
1-0 vs UW Control (he finished without time after having lost the first game)
2-1 vs Affinity
so 8-2 and I find the deck extremely solid in the competitive meta.
Often my opponents keep a hand not great with graveyard hate and is punished for that.
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/12/7/1521989635-btl-shift.png
Nice, What match did you faced in the league ?
0-2 vs GW Tron
2-0 vs UR Delver
2-0 vs GW Hatebears
2-1 vs Affinity
2-1 vs 4c Traverse Shadow
Draw vs Bant Coco
1/4 : 2-0 Vs Mardu Control
1/2 : 2-1 vs RG Ponza
Final : 2-0 vs Burn
haha nice joke ! Etron is bye for titanshift, human too (i'm 10-1 vs human in comp league), affinity is 50/50... just agree that storm is bad
4-1
2-0 vs Junk Delirium
2-1 vs 5c Human
2-1 vs BW Eldra Taxes
0-2 vs Mardu Burn
2-0 vs Eldra Tron
The singleton Thragtusk saved me more than once !
with scapeshift.
1-2 vs UR Storm
2-1 vs UG Merfolk
2-1 vs UR Storm
2-0 vs UG Merfolk
2-0 vs Eldra Tron
List :
the list is optimized to confront Aggro/Storm and have a better Game 1 match against the new meta (Affinity, UG Merfolk, Storm, Human...) . (MD : 4 Lightning bolt , 1 Sweltering Suns, 1 Anger of the gods, 2 Relic of progenitus)
The 1 Suns / 1 Anger split is willing to play around Meddling mage
Bonus :
@CthuluHoops : I recommend to remove 2 Scapeshift vs Affinity for not drawing too much win condition and make room for hate.
vs Eldra Tron :
-1 Sweltering Suns, -1 Anger of the Gods, -4 Lightning Bolt
+2 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, +1 Beast Within, +1 Ancient Grudge,+1 Obstinate Baloth, +1 Thragtusk
Vs faerie I have cut 4 bolt for EE, Guttural Response and Witchbane Orb.
I hesitated to remove Anger and add Baloth for putting pressure, I may have to do it...
The Guttural Response was useful to me vs Bant (Flashfreeze) and Temur Delver.
I anticipated a lot of Tron and Control so 2 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss and 1 Guttural Response in the sideboard.
Round 1 : 2-0 vs Eldra Tron
Round 2 : 1-2 vs Temur Delver
Round 3 : 2-1 vs Bant Knightfall
Round 4 : 2-0 vs Eldra Tron
Round 5 : 2-1 vs RG Aggro (with 4 magus of the moon!)
I finished first but get crushed 0-2 in 1/4 vs UB Faeries ...
Deck list :
// 2 Artifact
2 Relic of Progenitus
// 9 Creature
4 Primeval Titan
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Wood Elves
// 2 Enchantment
2 Prismatic Omen
// 6 Instant
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Summoner's Pact
// 27 Land
3 Cinder Glade
2 Forest
6 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Windswept Heath
1 Anger of the Gods
3 Farseek
4 Scapeshift
4 Search for Tomorrow
1 Sweltering Suns
1 Explore
// 4 Artifact
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Witchbane Orb
// 4 Creature
2 Obstinate Baloth
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Thragtusk
// 4 Instant
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Beast Within
1 Nature's Claim
1 Guttural Response
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
Advice to sideboard vs Faeries please ??
You play 4 leyline SB ?
Can you share your list please ?
Sorry but Prismatic Omen is 2 in all lists now.