Thrun is usually good enough, but the thing is the control decks have Baneslayer and Baneslayer 2.0 now, thrun doesnt match up well against those. When you board in carnage tyrant, it allows you to board in hour of devastation vs the control deck as well. Gives you another option on taking out jace/teferi and sweeps up both angels as well.
But I love that list! It has everything i want in and even finds space for dead/gone. That will be my base list now for sure!
Glad you liked my list
In hindsight I was just "okay" with it, I wasn't particularly happy with dead//gone but felt that I had to pick a direction to hedge in as oppose to spreading myself too thin. The decision was between that or slaughter games, so in a sense, I was okay with dead//gone even though it felt like the weakest card in my 75.
The biggest issue though was the amount of burn floating around. The black leylines were new this weekend and I was previously on white leylines before (taking the exact spots as the black ones this week), I could've been mightily punished by facing just even one more burn deck or facing one of the two in the top 8. Unless burn had an absurd day 2 conversion rate (meaning a very small pool of burn total in all 800+ players), I felt not having white leylines was the incorrect read.
That being said, still happy with the tournament overall. The only mistakes I made were on camera (embarrassing, I know) but I played cleanly for the other rounds. The benefits of being essentially a one trick pony is that i've pretty much seen it all and from the technical rules to the match up specifics and even mulliganing is like muscle memory at this point whereas my opponents were constantly second guessing themselves and were somewhat unsure of how to approach the match up.
So, going forward, what would you change if anything with your list? If you expect some graveyard shennanigans black leylines, and combo/burn, white leylines? Also do you have a brief way of how you sideboard? Alot of the things in the deck do the same thing so im wondering what do you usually cut first, etc. Most of it is straight forward, but im wondering where your numbers are at.
So, with the spirit meanace inbound, what are we doing to beat them? I've been playing a copy of Hour of Devastation to beat out spell queller and selfless spirit. Also a decent sweeper vs all the other aggro lists. Anyone got some sweet tech they wanna share?
Kind of a lurker here, but have been playing RG Titanshift for a long time. Just took down a 41 person PPTQ, and posted a small tournament report. Feel free to respond on reddit as i dont check MTGSalvation often.
So, going forward, what would you change if anything with your list? If you expect some graveyard shennanigans black leylines, and combo/burn, white leylines? Also do you have a brief way of how you sideboard? Alot of the things in the deck do the same thing so im wondering what do you usually cut first, etc. Most of it is straight forward, but im wondering where your numbers are at.
Thanks and congrats!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scapeshift/comments/98tlwq/1st_place_pptq_with_rg_titanshift_report_inside/
Lands (24)
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
1 Gemstone Caverns
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
2 Wastes
Spells (16)
1 All Is Dust
1 Batterskull
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Dismember
4 Expedition Map
1 Spatial Contortion
2 Warping Wail
Creatures (20)
3 Endbringer
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
3 Walking Ballista
Sideboard (15)
1 Karn Liberated
1 Oblivion Stone
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 All Is Dust
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Pithing Needle
2 Spellskite
1 Basilisk Collar
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Warping Wail