Im running GB over RG. Main reason to run black over red is discard, LL vs "mirror", and you can even use Flayer manipulation. Demon is a nice hit vs aggro and is not dead vs control as you can reanimate (even dead bluehulks). 3 Grasp seems light, I preferred having 4. Ulamog is clunky (no option of Voice or Reunion discard), either out or compliment it with self discard (Collective Brutality). Trackers MB is a meta choice. I moved them to the SB, in a Vehicles/eneRGy meta.
@Ren_Ji: After seeing your list i would stray away from naya if i was you.
All it does is make your deck clunky and playing one less forest than usual just seems very wrong.
Edit: sorry i meant 1 less mountain
The Naya version can't be compared to RG Titan Scapeshift at all. It plays differently, and more of a control role. I am very comfortable with the version.
It's okay to play 1 less basic Mountain as I am not running Khalnis. The total number of "mountains" is still good at 12.
Went 4-0 today. I can say that I did win the matchup lottery.
R2 - Merfolk - I mis-Scapeshifted after Scaping once already and lost game 1. I take games 2 and 3 seeing only 1 negate from him.
R3 - Grixis Delver - Game 2 was won from a back-to-back Baloth hardcasted after a Path on a Tasigur. I would die if he had a counterspell for my 2nd Path, as he was racing me with 2 Delvers flipped and unflipped, and 2 Snaps, but he doesn't have it.
R4 - UW Control - Game 1 he gets a flipped Jace milling me, which does some damage. I hold my 1st Scapeshift till I am forced to cast it or get a 2nd one and 8 lands. I get to 8 lands and draw my 2nd Scapeshift and cast the 1st, which he taps out to Cryptic. I cast the 2nd one and win. Game 2, I Scape without resistance, his hand was full of Paths and Wraths.
R5 - RG Breach - Game 1 I miss my 7th land drop and lose to Emrakul. Game 2 He has Leyline of Sanctity, and we both do nothing for a while waiting for cards to win us the game. I get mine first, Beast Within his Leyline and win. Game 3, Breach is a turn faster so he wins with Emmy. I could handle the 0-1 Emrakul lists, as I can easily Path a Titan, but can't handle the 3 Emrakul list.
R6 - Bant Eldrazi - He mulls to 5 game 1. By the time he had 2 Though-Knot Seers out (turn 4 and 5), I was killing them and him with Valakut/Omen triggers. Game 2 he has a slow start and no answer to triple natural Valakut, no Omens.
2 Scapeshift decks made top 8, the RUG and Breach versions.
As for the new Nissa, I do like her as a 1-of alternate win con, but more likely in an RG list, not in my Naya list.
@Suicide Zoo MU: Swap Lightning Bolts for Path to Exiles. This has worked for me in my testing at FNMs (along with two board wipes in form of EE or Anger MD). Though, requires to splash white. Fog was mentioned too and saves you for a turn.
@nookularboy: Have you been working on your RGw list or staying RUG for know? Curious to see any developments.
I tried out Thalia, Guardian of Thraben over the Spellskites last night at my LGS TNM. There were two matches where she made a difference. vs Soul Sisters where the First Strike did a bunch to help me, and vs Zoo slowing down removal. vs Zoo it would have been fine having the Spellskite over her. Thalia also made a difference vs Jund slowing down removal and First Strike holding Finks, but was not that big. There was also one Ancient Stirrings which missed where I saw 2 Thalias in. Overall, I think Spellskite fits the 2 slot better and can protect our Displacers better.
For Elder Deep Fiend, I think 1 is preferrable and maybe even just in the SB vs the mirror to breakout lethal. Everywhere else, I feel like Drowner and Displacer is enough.
Went 6-2 in total for GP Toronto side events, single eliminations. Ran 2 Relic of Progenitus in the flex slots. My first loss was to Eggs where I didn't have Summoner's Pact in my 75 and had Commune with Lava instead, which deemed to be a turn too slow vs Eggs. I immediately picked up the Pacts and played again. The second loss was vs Breach-Shift. I would win game 3, but lost due to forgotten Pact trigger (mistake learned the hard way). I made sure to remember the next flight and won 3 in a row in that. The MD Relic has been very suppressing against most decks I played against(Jund, Living End,Abzan) except for three of my match-ups (Breach-Shift, Soul Sisters, and no-goyf Zoo).
I love that the BW Processor is back. Anybody have success with BW Processor with Displacer? (I can test it when I get mine in the mail) I feel like it is spicy with Wasteland Strangler or Thought-Knot Seer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/comments/4z8160/bw_processors_sb_guide_modern/?ref=search_posts
Congratz to the success RidetheIguana
The Naya version can't be compared to RG Titan Scapeshift at all. It plays differently, and more of a control role. I am very comfortable with the version.
It's okay to play 1 less basic Mountain as I am not running Khalnis. The total number of "mountains" is still good at 12.
Went 4-0 today. I can say that I did win the matchup lottery.
Bant Eldrazi 2-0
Burn 2-1
Grixis Thing 2-0
Bant Eldrazi 2-0
I went 4-2 and got 10th place at a 40+ man PPTQ today with Naya Scapeshift. I missed top 8 due to breakers.
I have settled on this list after thoroughly testing Naya:
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Primeval Titan
2 Obstinate Baloth
3 Wall of Omens
Spells
4 Path to Exile
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Explore
2 Farseek
2 Prismatic Omen
4 Scapeshift
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
2 Cinder Glade
3 Stomping Ground
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Temple Garden
2 Forest
6 Mountain
1 Plains
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Vexing Shusher
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Rest in Peace
1 Back to Nature
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Beast Within
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Crumble to Dust
R1: RG Ponza - 0-2
R2: Merfolks - 2-1
R3: Grixis Delver - 2-0
R4: UW Control - 2-0
R5: RG Breach 1-2
R6: Bant Eldrazi 2-0
Notes:
R1 - RG Ponza - Pretty much an autoloss for me.
R2 - Merfolk - I mis-Scapeshifted after Scaping once already and lost game 1. I take games 2 and 3 seeing only 1 negate from him.
R3 - Grixis Delver - Game 2 was won from a back-to-back Baloth hardcasted after a Path on a Tasigur. I would die if he had a counterspell for my 2nd Path, as he was racing me with 2 Delvers flipped and unflipped, and 2 Snaps, but he doesn't have it.
R4 - UW Control - Game 1 he gets a flipped Jace milling me, which does some damage. I hold my 1st Scapeshift till I am forced to cast it or get a 2nd one and 8 lands. I get to 8 lands and draw my 2nd Scapeshift and cast the 1st, which he taps out to Cryptic. I cast the 2nd one and win. Game 2, I Scape without resistance, his hand was full of Paths and Wraths.
R5 - RG Breach - Game 1 I miss my 7th land drop and lose to Emrakul. Game 2 He has Leyline of Sanctity, and we both do nothing for a while waiting for cards to win us the game. I get mine first, Beast Within his Leyline and win. Game 3, Breach is a turn faster so he wins with Emmy. I could handle the 0-1 Emrakul lists, as I can easily Path a Titan, but can't handle the 3 Emrakul list.
R6 - Bant Eldrazi - He mulls to 5 game 1. By the time he had 2 Though-Knot Seers out (turn 4 and 5), I was killing them and him with Valakut/Omen triggers. Game 2 he has a slow start and no answer to triple natural Valakut, no Omens.
2 Scapeshift decks made top 8, the RUG and Breach versions.
As for the new Nissa, I do like her as a 1-of alternate win con, but more likely in an RG list, not in my Naya list.
@nookularboy: Have you been working on your RGw list or staying RUG for know? Curious to see any developments.
For Elder Deep Fiend, I think 1 is preferrable and maybe even just in the SB vs the mirror to breakout lethal. Everywhere else, I feel like Drowner and Displacer is enough.
I feel like using a heartless version with Spellskites and Shriekmaw (maybe SB).