 Hello everybody and welcome today. We are going to be taking a look at Titan shift in modern it is May of 2019 and The mythic championships recently finished. We've had the London Mulligan rule. We're back now to the old Mulligan rule of Vancouver whatever it is and This was the deck. I think that went top 8 in the in the mythic championship Really keen to give this a spin I'm not normally a green player Or a ramping kind of player, but really you're going to give this one a go I hate playing against Tron and I just love the Acid mosses here just you know a couple of test games. I've played with this already where Tron has just crumpled like paper underneath Underneath this ramp followed, you know, obviously up by primeval and or scape shift for the win So those of you who are already familiar with the build, you know You could skip ahead a little bit, but just a quick recap of what's going on here We've got 27 lands in the main And then a whole pile of ramp cards. That's cards like far seek search our library for a Mountain put it into play tapped same thing with secure tribe elder does the exact same job except Also provides a 1-1 body that can jump for a turn and or even attack for a couple of turns and Maybe talk about that a little bit later There's a subtlety at play with this deck where you kind of incentivize to try to get the guy to 18 And so beats from secure tribe elder can be relevant for that This is in the wrong places. This is our this is the main thing we want to be doing on turn 1 is suspending Search for tomorrow plan B is to play a relic and hope that it has some meaning or at worst it'll cycle for itself We have three lightning bolts to just do general stuff Tope with what our opponent's doing as well as provide a little bit of reach we can obviously put them to 17 before we scape shift scape shift itself for those of you not familiar is Kind of the the chief gimmick of the deck is that we build up to seven lands cast scape shift It's combo as all this time itself and there's probably other videos out there that you can check out just Tutorial and what's going on here But we bring seven lands into play one of which is Valak at the modern pinnacle And then six mountains As you can see almost all of our non fetches are mountains And deal 18 damage all in one go. That's the scape shift combo once you've got seven lands and scape shift basically win the game The key innovation I think in this deck that the fellow played at the championship is acid moss which goes and fetches a forest card Which includes stomping ground and or syndicate out of our deck while destroying the opponent's land fantastic against Tron and Actually has quite a lot of applications elsewhere as well Chandra has some weird things. I'm still learning the ropes with how she bolts into the deck But the trick is The long story on this is that you're supposed to the short story even is that you're supposed to Use her plus one ability to add mana quite liberally If you have an opportunity to Another key card here, of course, is primeval titan We have six copies of him in the deck Someone's pack just allows us to go and get one. We have to pay a tax the following turn Um, and what he does of course is when it comes to play brings two lands into play They can be mountains to um bolt our opponent or targets if we have valokite valokite out It can also go and fetch the valokites if we haven't gotten that far yet in the game Once you play one of these it's pretty hard to lose Unless your opponent's already about to burn you out or about to kill you Engineered explosives is sort of a general answer all sort of card Um, I've actually been boarding it out quite a lot Uh in my test game. So we'll see how that goes Um in the sideboard I've tweaked things a little bit compared to the Uh compared to the internet version or the version that was played at the championship Um, I've really found primal command to just be a fantastic Catch all card to bring in because it answers So many different things, you know gaining seven life can be massively relevant against really aggressive or burn decks Um You can destroy a land obviously with the second ability Um shuffling away their graveyard can be massive in modern as we all know And then of course its last ability is also really relevant. Uh, it's it's effectively the seventh copy of primeval titan Um, I'm not sure where the thumb is necessary, but I don't I feel we feel vulnerable against counter spells against remand and cryptic command um My early testing against that Is actually been quite successful that you can cast scape shift he counters it and you shrug and just You know try primeval titan the turn after if that doesn't work try summon his pack for primeval You know, eventually he needs an answer to every single thing you're doing because everything you're doing ends the game wins you the game So we'll see uh as to how Attractive he is obviously very unattractive But um to bring it how attractive the proposition is to bring him in Um ball of spin fantastic in everything. Uh, he almost always comes in against creatures Certainly against burn uh an aggro I'll just separate things out here a little bit so we can see what's going on. We got some counter artifact counters here Three main deck. That's also an enchantment answer And you can go to obviously awesome shatter storm very very important against your sort of prison chalice sort of decks Dampening sphere for mainly storm There are a lot of other decks that don't like it like a thing in the ice as well Against tron probably do bring it in but you know, you've got to get rid of relics and stuff So you're looking for other things to bring in but again out and match up against tron is so so good from the main deck anyway um Answering creatures we have a flame slash You could argue for a fourth lightning bolt, but flame slash does hit thing in the ice um One extra relic for dredge and any of that other Uh wickedness anger of the gods as humans mo folk spirits and that type of thing Tireless is a really good catch all as well alternative wind condition if you suspect Layline of sanctity and stuff like that playing one of these guys on turn three if you've already searched Or if you've already fast-seeked Means that you can play him on turn three and then play a land and immediately get the clue um, and so I haven't played much with them out of the board yet, but we'll see how that goes Um, yeah, so that's the deck. Uh, we will jump into some matches And see how it goes. Uh, depending on how much fun I'm having I'll continue to play and do a few do a few of these games Do a few of these matches. We'll see what happens along the way. I hope you enjoy. Um, as always, please do leave comments If you like what you see hit the like button If you don't like what you see you can hit the dislike button I suppose. Um But I'll leave it up to yourselves Um, I would love it if you would subscribe. Uh, that would give me a little bit more encouragement to continue doing these It's been a while since I've done any magic stuff, uh, on youtube Um, anyway, that's it. Um, so Without further ado, let's get started And we are ready to begin. We won the dice roll Just really good Straight off the bat no lands 27 land deck everybody 27 land deck Just saying Take it on the chin Keep this one Um I think we keep this arid mesa Yeah, keep that Um, now a rule of thumb hypothesis i'm working to Is that maybe guys can confirm this I could what I could have done here is played the basic forest and avoid taking the two damage, right? But What you're supposed to do is play a mountain Because there is a chance that the game goes Long to the point where you just naturally get to seven lands and you care about hitting mountains for If I look at trees And if this is the mirror match, that's a great great start, isn't it? It's not okay Temple gardens, I might be humans Okay, so what can we do here Next turn we have acid moss. We have chandra next turn Uh, I could play engineered for either two or one Um That might be the best thing to do here if we strongly suspect humans which I like really really do Um, so I think that's what I'm gonna do. I think I'm gonna explosives for two And then acid moss, uh the turn after Um, I'm gonna be a little bit conservative here and go for a basic mountain My life total is Something that I'm eager to protect Okay So I always find with humans, usually with noble hierarchy or anyone playing noble hierarchy You're tempted to kill the hierarchy But because humans has so many fast ways to bring out Okay, yeah, normally humans have so many fast debris to dump its hand onto the table That killing the hierarchy isn't really worth it. You're better off saving your removal for Uh, a nasty human like a You know mantis rider or what have you So Search comes off suspend It's got to be a basic So we go another mountain saving up the mountains here Okay, so we've got two choices. We can either acid moss or chandra. Now if we chandra That's really interesting chandra is interesting now having said that that's got to be it's got to be acid moss. He's missed He's missed playing anything unless he's flashing in a spirit Uh, but if he's flashing in a spirit, I don't really want to leave chandra up for that. So Let's go ahead and acid moss Spell Quella You can feel it spirits Chandra will kill that if it resolves If she resolves But we'll have to wait and see now Whether we have game here spirits is an interesting one I haven't faced spirits before with Uh type shift so it's an interesting combo Prime time, baby So i'm thinking chandra negging to blow up spell quella Uh acid moss eats temple garden and sets up primeval titan for sure Now can he counter primeval titan with this deck? I don't think he can So For damage, so she'll go down to one loyalty and get killed the following turn, but that buys us a bit of time primeval seems Yeah, I don't think you can stop this You don't run remind you don't run anything like that kill the quella. Okay. I can't stop that Do I still get the spell When it leaves the battlefield I get the spell. Oh, wow. He values the land. Wow I wasn't caring about the land. I was caring about the ramp But sure Blow up fountain Go and get a stomping ground Uh, it's tapped anyway. Yes, I don't have the option. You know, as it was untapped and then I could uh Hold up explosives, but I can't do that Okay, happy with that happy enough So why wouldn't he keep his path and kill me? He's got another path for primeval Who you going for? Yep, so she just bought us four life there as well See now what what can happen here? I mean Crypto command can he do that? He can't cast crypto command If he reminds I don't care. I'm still going for it He hasn't seen my hand so he doesn't know about it. We obviously can't cast spell koala Now I have five mountains in play already So I'm very tempted to go and get Falkett and one other Uh mountain and then I can kill the noble hierarch So this is another thing. I'm not sure about yet with this deck is do I get two valokites here knowing that I have One trigger coming from secure try builder So if I get two valokites, I deal no damage now But I can deal two lightning bolts when I cast secure try builder next turn and if I draw a mountain Or a fetch land Um, I'll be able to deal 12 damage So the alternative is that I go and fetch one valokite and lightning bolt So I think the right answer is that I get two valokites here I invest in the long game and the reason for that is that I'm not at immediate risk of death Like if I was on five life or something That would be different. I think I'm supposed to get two valokites here I suppose you'd have spreading seas as well The thing is that in order to continue to hurt me he needs to Remove the titan Which is gonna. Yeah, so path here is okay Or even cocoa. Okay So do these decks run to deputy of dismissal? I don't know Oh god, this is exciting Why is that a creature instant? Okay, yeah blow up the engineer maybe or What does this do again? destroy target artifactor and charon that's fine Yep So in theory, I suppose if you can remove the titan you could maybe alpha me here I am going to be dealing hopefully At least six damage maybe 12 Okay Well, I fetch a mountain You know what and I will blow up You And I will blow up Should I kill this no kill us anyway, man See this is part of what happens with this deck is that if you if if you're allowed to get to seven or eight lands Even without scape shift. I mean I could top-deck top-deck scape shift for the win, but it's like It's so hard for them to overcome it with You know creatures with We have two etb triggers on their way. I think what we'll do is we'll far seek first now So the trick is What do we blow up? Comes in tapped. All right, do we Start hitting his life total I just feel like killing the hierarchy and the birds is a waste of time A secure a tribelder on chump duty Um Actually see because if you if he attacks if he has it depends if he has a play if he has a play he has a play If he hasn't an attack with both voices I can actually attack with secure a tribelder and you'll have to chump With either the hierarchy or the birds It's like a machine gun, isn't it? Why don't you get a couple of these bad boys? Yeah, I'm tempted to just Not lock here a spot for him. Oh, that could be good That could be very good. So he goes back up to 10 Yeah He's activating If I draw a land, I'm going to be able to deal 12 damage to him So I still think it's okay to just let all this happen, right? For now If I don't draw a land, then I'll kill the use Uh, because he won't have enough mana to make it big enough to survive that so I think that's right See what I draw if I draw a land I'm out and I mean Oh bolt Okay, he's on a virtual 10 He's on a virtual 10. So Uh, I can deal nine meanwhile, so I don't really want him to Um, if I attack with the elder he'll just block it and then I sack it. So that's Not very interesting. The mana isn't the constraint here. It's the number of creatures in his yard. That's the constraint He could eat steve though I understand this is what he's called. It's a kura tribal. You can call him steve, steve If I sack him He goes to 10 Right, so that's made my decision easier. So we're going to wait a turn We're going to let him eat everything that's in the graveyard We're not going to send anything else to the graveyard Toughy and I've wasted quite a lot of time thinking about it as well Okay, it's the night of autumn. No problem He's on a virtual 10 after I sacked steve This is intriguing Comes in a lot of blocks a lot of sacks Sure, no problem expected that I really do need Here like There's no sense Burning all this out. Well, see another alternative would be to remove the creatures. I could remove the ooze um But I could kill the ooze untapped That's all right. Is it It's I'm just going to go for the jugular here Draw a land for the wind draw a primeval titan for the wind draw a Summoner's packed Uh escape shift I have Yes I'll hold back on lightning bolt just because I got so much Is that true? I think that's all right Come on land me like I have so many outs. Yeah any of these cards would do it Good 14 minutes left So he's not spirits, right? voice of resurgence and cassali pride mage like it's You know, it's not the horror show of humans or anything like that um Bolt does seem better to me than flame slash Relics aren't doing much They do stop ooze or interact with ooze, but is that doing enough? I don't know Okay, so what I'm thinking is just a straight swap relics for anti anti-army What comes out though? Chandra, maybe she a bit poor. I don't really want to go down unpacked acid moss Presumably has aether vial that he might not have aether vial I think she's a bit vulnerable. She is a bit vulnerable swap her for tireless bring in the anti-creature suite I hope with this. Oh, that's unfortunate Not quite not quite as bad as our first hand last time. We have to mulligan this can't count on drawing a green source on turn one and too risky That's fine. Keep that We have three lands. So we'll just hold back playing that third land drop until after tireless has come down off The ramp spell so that's fine. We can put that on the bottom Maybe about twice as long as it should have to work that out That's okay I'm still learning this deck really, you know, I'm still just getting the feel for it Something really satisfying about having the valokites on the battlefield and just You know the inevitability of the machine gun effect It's just so harsh Far seek is not bad. Um Right in the interest of not playing a basic forest I will pay to life and Boom Please Steve next I suppose Nothing on turn one Just supposed to be playing some kind of dry add militant or something Eighth of a while you must you must run eighth of a nothing on turn two Oh, yeah, look at that I think it's got to be secure tribal here I'm just gonna get a basic milk If he gets counterspelled he does not Maybe I shoot a fast seat instead Because I kind of feel compelled now to crack him at the end of My opponent's turn although my my opponent has gone to 18 The likelihood of him getting through The following turn is pretty low. Surely he plays something here. He's done nothing for turns one and two So he must have a three turn turn three play Strongly strongly suspecting Spell Queller here very strongly suspecting Spell Queller for that reason. I'm not doing The sacrificing because I'm not going to be tapping out for tireless this time The cast this if he wants to counter that it's totally okay. Great Okay So I'll take the road More or less travel. I don't know which play the tireless I have a Landrock on my sleeve Should tireless tracker be in the main deck. It's just such a nice stepping stone card Alternative win con. I mean it can get arbitrarily big with all my far-seeking and fetching You know, I could make myself four clues crack them all All this card advantage great this great big body that has to be removed like he's a sort he's almost a must remove Another interesting question here. Oh to Shay Another interesting question here is should we Have kept Fowler cat Be fun to think about whether that's true or not can't stop him Okay, so I think we ramp here my goodness one two three four five six seven So next turn Do I play both ramp spells and leave myself as a three two? Allowing him to become a five four. I do because I've got a chumper here So I think what I want to do is Is this wow look at the clues So you can see what happens here like even if the tracker dies now It's totally fine. Like just a really solid card Yep If it taps out it's game over Knight of the reliquary gets plus one plus one for each land card in your graveyard What is this guy's deck? So the question is do we Sack Steve To make one two three four five six seven lands And go for the win Trying to think what card He's running it like it has to be obviously a demand. It has to be negate Dovens veto I'm gonna do it We are really doing this right another clue Just in case we didn't have enough already Okay, well have that another clue Escape shift he has an answer Unified will Okay, all right, all right Okay, yep, fine Um, I think I should probably crack this Oh, that was huge man. That was big Play a land for the turn Because it felt like it wasn't my land for the turn Oh, he's given himself a chance man. Oh heart in your mouth stuff Eight minutes left so game three could be a type one Uh, how many Lancats do he's going to investigate again? Blast zone Okay Blast zone is okay. I will Worship. Oh, no Okay, that means I have to machine gun every creature Before getting to work on him. I don't know what this does such a lovely land come on downfield. Yep starts getting clued in Awful lot of work we've got to do now. Okay. Yep field of ruin is okay. I think we're losing this one Maybe I shouldn't have fetched there. I think I have to I don't make choice Just oh, that's interesting one of our billion clues. We really need to hurry up That's a mountain Come on. Prime Eagle Titan Let's just start cracking here Farseek Um under time pressure. Uh, we could search for tomorrow by flame slashing If it's still scape shift here For massive damage if I can find it Yeah, this has to be it right scape shift for massive damage And then I can so I can still play a land here. So if I scape shift Um Gets three valokites play cinderglade search for tomorrow from killing the Quella kill the tracker so I think this is correct I'll do the analysis afterwards, but I'm guessing that I stuffed that up and I should have Put two valokites into play Three valokites into play. Sorry Let's kill this I've all got to go on the bloody stack. Okay All right. Well Thank you that He's just given it up. He saw how many triggers there were how many triggers were there man? I had like 36 damage just from that one Thing and 36 is 6 plus 3 plus 3 Plus 18 which was his life total So worship gets turned off once the creatures are all dead Um, so if he could have played an indestructible creature there I think we would have had to concede. I don't know that there's any way out of that We have no answer for worship Um, yeah Okay, and we are back for the second game second match We won the dice roll again And how's our luck this time? Oh, yeah It's all right Um Unfortunately these come into play tapped so we cannot search on turn one Which means we cannot play these on turn three Well, we wouldn't want to play scape shift on turn three anyway, would we? But who knows what we draw like if we draw a ramp spell if we draw a fire seek or a steve. That's our best bet We don't have many bad draws really do we because we've definitely we're definitely playing Chandra on turn four. So I think we keep But we're not loving life. I mean drake aron Won't be Sad to see a tapped sundae blade on turn one Although maybe he will maybe he'll realize that we're scape shift and Despair so okay verdant suggests collective brutalities and thought seizes and acquisitions and those cards are good against Against titan shift. I think um But his deck could be literally anything obviously with verdant catacombs Hopefully he's holding up mana for fatal push I mean, there's no mystery as to what they're doing. So chuck our tatland out there Suspend the search Which I don't actually sounds like we're calling off the search doesn't suspend the search What we're really doing is Putting it on hold for a couple of turns I don't play a lot of tier one decks generally in modern Oh Is this a absinthe I quite like the new artwork on the shoplands. What? No player is that a so how many colors are you man? What the heck kind of deck is this? Stopping ground I still can't do anything right so I should probably just play the cinderglaid Yeah, cinderglaid tapped past the tap But I won't f6 here. You got to make it look like you mean business Can't wait to lightning bolt your guy that kind of thing. I don't know what his deck is And another thing I've noticed is that rogue builds like you know tier three decks and stuff. Oh, assassin's trophy well That's interesting. It's not actually very effective against us though It's not very effective, mate Now maybe you might argue that Okay, what is an effective target one But you'd save it for primeval titan when you I mean It'd be different if I didn't fetch a land off it Still still not and you're blue as well. So you're all five colors Okay, well, I'm gonna try and cast chandra here Just try and stop me. I got basic land fetch I'm worried that I'm running out of basics I'll follow my own advice here don't fetch your basic forest because um, will we See if we can Just attract whatever he's planning to do. No, okay. He wasn't but he wasn't biting All right, let's see if he resolves His deck is so weird. It would be so weird if he counted this like with having start having led on Godless and stomping ground. It would be so strange to see Spell queller or something Yeah, what is this guy doing? Just do this for now. I've had it my friend. Okay. What are you doing? Seriously, obviously that's all I'm worried about his counter spells Um, I feel like I'm just praying for lands. I I'm gonna get I'm gonna hope that my scape shift is good I want to get to seven lands Do this that may have been foolish that may have been You guys might be screaming at me like no Why would you do that you moron? Half of the rest of the cards in my deck are lands, right? Creeping tarp it. What isn't this guy doing? He looks It's like he's playing modern staple of thumb. Okay. I'm gonna cash this in if if he cryptics my scape shift here I would just be like Is she a big deal in modern now? I don't know When she gets to five she can deal damage equal to the number of cards I own in xR, which is That many but that's because I put them there With relic know what you're doing pal, but scape shift Sacrifice any number of lands. I believe I'll sacrifice every last One and I think I'm supposed to float this mana, right? Okay. Yep. I'm an idiot. I should have Floated mana for search for tomorrow So that I get an extra trigger In case he gains life or whatever So there's Valakit I gotta find six more lands that they've all got to be mountains Stop asking me. How many tricks? I've got six six triggers There's one two Three So I don't know what's going on. Like Kai is a really expensive card So he's obviously not a complete beginner Okay, he's seen the writing on the wall. Oh my goodness This deck Have no idea how to board against this dude like He's a relic good Does he have tamagoifs? I mean What are you doing at someone who's playing helix and kaya? And blue Obstant ballast pretty hilarious in response to coligan's command Um, yeah, these feel annoying for him. I'm also tempted by primal command here I don't know how good or bad relic actually is Is that what it's called would cover the wilds? It's a four drop that lets you untap all your lands again All red with search for tomorrow Can't keep it Especially not on the draw I hit keep can't keep it and in saying the word keep I subconsciously press the keep button Yeah, that happened that really happened Punishment due Oh, why not? Whenever I cast a non-creature spell you ping me for one you can sack this to blow up an artifact or enchantment While also stinging me for two well, thank you for heavens above We found a green source on turn two so it cost us a turn I am going to take my own advice and Take the hit from stopping ground so that I can suspend my disbelief Hold up lightning bolt although It's not clear that uh He's going to give me anything to Lighting bolt another green source coming not next turn but a turn after So we'll be playing acid moss just at the normal time And that's yeah, that's a absolute hoser See, I I I don't know if this guy is supposed to be in modern or not if if he's a regular dude But he actually shuts down every single card That we run um What I might try and do is She can't hit him Yeah, so if you look closely, this is hilarious right spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause this assertion every single thing we do Look right there Rather than pointing with my finger or point with the mouse search. I can't put it. Okay. Well, it's there Search your library search your library every single card far seek secure tribe elder um primeval titan Summoners packed they all Every single thing requires us to search Now we can kill him with that we can get to valokite naturally um But he's nearly as bad. He's as bad as no one was acting like in the sense that you you have to Um You know you have to do something about him you can't not um You can't ignore him Anyway Let's just see what he does. I'm maybe he isn't experienced enough to neg One again here. Is he is he a tier one staple and if the answer is yes then titan shift Titan shift needs to change its sideboard if if so, all right make a lot of confidence So i'm detecting maybe someone who knows the game but is new to modern and he's testing stuff out Sin collector You're gonna choose a card you choose an instant or sorcery and exile it forever Um, well, what does lightning bolt really do for me now? I guess I'll let it come to play obviously Um, should I just bolt the sin collector? I think i'm gonna do that. I'll take one from this two from this one from this Problem with ashiok the only way to remove him is going to be prime beats Or natural triggers from valokite, but we cannot ramp Okay, don't want to spend too long thinking about it waste too much time He's then gonna take uh one of the acid mosses Sin devines will hit us again Yeah ashiok is Pain in the back side Yeah, but he was printed to hate modern or to give, you know Oh, he's done it. Okay. Well now we can top deck bolt I don't understand why You would neg him though This won't work Can't search for tomorrow Sin divides me Yeah, yep Blowing up a land isn't as interesting as chandering Sin devines isn't bad. Hey, doing a pretty good job here So this is this guy, you know, this is where you want to see tireless tracker. I'll just say no. Can I just say no? Uh, yeah tireless tracker insane. In fact that last game You know it made like seven clues I cracked three of them to help me find scapeship from win the game. I wonder should tireless actually be a You know main decked card Oh, we're getting close. What did he blow up? Oh, he blew up chandra. Okay Yeah, so we're getting close to natural Stuff here. He's ticking this baby down. Is he gonna mill me to death? So I think I just play this tapped There's no point destroying his lands now I really feel unless he has a plan to mill me What's he gonna do here? Ashiok dream What's he doing to my dreams and rending them? Cole again. Yep. Okay Yeah, he's just the ultimate hate card for us. Sure. Okay. Yep. Can't stop it. All right. Have a look at my hand Exiled acid moss Still gotta wait. Uh, I take one from sin divides How does this help me blowing up and the only answers you got here one two three four five six No, just play Well, he's in such big trouble now though. If I top deck him out Has to be a mountain can't be a primeval titan can't be a far seek Blah blah blah. Yeah, she doesn't do anything man. What is the point of her? It's like a super global rainbow friends So that's a big question. You might argue that this guy is You know testing out a new idea with a deck whatever It's one type of land um I'll play it because scape shifting for eight could be important later Um, the question is whether ashiok is in fact going to be a modern staple That would give me some hesitancy if I am seeing him regularly. Oh my goodness Another card out of ravnaker allegiance. I think it is is um I'm more eager I'm more ego naming valokite is Game over the only thing you have left in your deck is Our primeval titan, which is just with triumphal Um, that can be you know, wrapped into So if you can if you can win off that Good on you. I might just hold the bolt here for I do have to bolt ashiok. I mean probably going Well then again, should I kill the creeping tarpit with my lightning bolt? Deals damage to me equal the number of cards I own in exile How many cards do I own in exile? Oh combo, okay. I'm at minus 15 Oh Well, okay, we got ashiok. We got majorly ashiok And he is a nightmare For us So let's bring in some alternative wing cons. We this primal command can put him back on top of library Asimos is actually solid here Relic is horrendous. We don't do that. Um What happened with kai? Did she ultimate? Maybe she ultimately and I should have paid attention to that And I could have bolted her before she had the chance to so that could be a very bad mistake on my part. Sorry But seriously I actually think it's lightning bolt that goes I'm going to use creatures Especially tireless tracker. Hopefully to attack ashiok This guy's definitely on a rogue build here. So See what we can do. Oh Um, yeah, there's no ramp Where's my ramp? I'm mulliganing I can't even talk right now. It's not your fault. Drake Aaron Killing me. Oh, was I too aggressive with the balloths? No, I wasn't. What did I take out? engineered bolt Not really very much Cinder vines, maybe. All right Dear, oh dear, oh dear. Get into balloth mana people. We're getting there You've got to click too many buttons when a card comes off to suspend in the interface It's too it's so and I got to click like four times to cast the card. Yes cast it I don't even have a choice like suspend isn't optional Basic land card I think I'll go for a moment Draw another one Guess I'll do that I'm not gonna be cute and try and extract any sort of Value from the discard stuff Colgan is fine here Safe right quest Not bad Not too bad at all This thing can do so much. Okay, so I can Put cinder vines on top of his library You can put a land on top of his library. It's probably better While I'm at it Search up a prime time I could search for Steve Steve might be better Search for Steve Want to do I want to put target thingy on top of his library and then I'm gonna search, right? So that's it the permanent I'm putting back on top is blood crypt double green Cinder vines fine Right, so the creature I am going to play Am I sure about this because if I pick Steve Yeah, this is right Okay, so we've timewalked him because we know that he had no play before So I'm definitely getting all right, not bad not bad at all Okay, I feel like we're in decent shape here If he plays ashiok He ashiok can be beaten to death by the ball of and or the Titan Get me a mount comes in tapped Play st So I can just And just go for escape shift The lands we know blood crypt is in his hand I'll survive ashiok now So what should we do? Go for bow go for escape shift or go for titan Okay, so let's just see who connects Should have made well. Yeah, he could always respond if I prime time Yep, okay. I think we got him games man. Um, so many Dramas during that like how how hilarious was that keep? Game two Also, how much should I have panicked over ashiok too much? Did I panic too too hard? I don't know Maybe I I overreacted But certainly pre-bored If ashiok is the main deckable card Tell me how we win that game Like the only thing you can do is cast primeval titan and attack with him By the way, you know, you can you can't cast him ahead of time either. You can't ramp Because all of our ramp involves we don't have like utopia sprawl and arbor of we don't have any of that You have to search for lands so I consider you for another 10 minutes talking about this, but I'm not going to let it go Um, all right, let's go again. Uh, I'll see you guys in the next game. Okay guys back again for another Titan shift match Uh, well on the draw do we want to mulligan this? Well, I think I'm gonna learn my lesson and keep this because I've been mulliganing pretty aggressively and It's been giving me problems in the last couple of matches Okay Whoa Relic feels like it's gonna be well, yeah against this guy Against this guy, I don't know um Is there any reason to save the bolt? If we ignore what he's doing and just let him go crazy, he could Yeah, I feel like we probably do need to bolt this thing Um relic doesn't shrink it Yeah, this this feels right. We're gonna bolt the flame blade I think I've played this match up once before with titan shift. Um With some success Um, if you resolve primeval titan He can't attack, you know He doesn't really have anything to stop you getting there except for burning inquiry Okay, so there you go. Yeah, so I'm glad we've done that. So you just card three cards We would have been taking four damage from the flame blade bolting Usain bolt, I don't know why I said that big fan of Usain bolt Um, okay. He discarded a burning inquiry does his thing fair enough Stephen is on To jump and do exactly what he's supposed to do. Look at this. Effectively gains us for life ramps us Into four mana on turn three Which allows who knows? Acid moths could come off the top of our deck Chandra the torch of defiance Got five cards. He threw away the inquiry Gut shot. Ah boo, okay Well, he's hooked up a gut shot Definitely a man Okay Although so do I So send a grade untapped Search puts a fifth land into play. I have the sixth one in hand My alternative is to go relic relic suspend But I think this is just straight up. I think we just cast this sucker and Um, three green sources seems like enough So keep following that same advice don't fetch a basic unless you're worried about blood moon and stuff Which by the way, maybe we should be out of the board worried about blood moon. Oh, hey, I didn't spot this. It comes in untapped Oh my goodness Do we want to play both or will we hold up the activation? I think we might hold up the activation Because I don't need the card. I know exactly when I don't need to draw a card. I know exactly what I'm doing So Do you know what's really hilarious is collective brutality Juresse only thoughts it like inquisition I can respond to and go and fetch a titan gonna be awesome Let's play bolt this fellow Do I crack the relic? I mean, what do you say to that? What can you say to that? Boom is what I say to that six God, I love this card. It's so like this feels so good. Just casting it just brings joy Um, do I bolt or do I do double valokite if I'm not an immediate risk of death? I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to do is double valokite A single lightning bolt doesn't do anything because it doesn't remove the hollow one So two of those bad boys I might be packing Um until the following turn for a second prime time So really he has to kill me now He has to kill me now because I have five triggers and five times three times two There's 25 damage inbound interesting Interesting. I will take the deal. I have it packed very very happy with that Yep, okay um I have Let's see a natural land play So that's one two three four triggers four times three times two is 20 Therefore I'm one game unless I can't play Hang on. Can I play everything? Can I play my far seek and my tighten? I've got one two three four five six seven eight nine lands The titan could get the other two valokites Hear this out. Hang on if I tap six of these lands get two more valokites out of the titan Play this in de glade That's four times three Then play the far seek. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah That's that's the right answer. Surely right. So I packed all that stinks. What can I get instead steve? I'll get steve and then I'll have three triggers three times three times two is 18 No, it's not three times three times two is 18. Yeah, it is So I can't get valokite, but I can get steve which means I can go Steve so I don't get why wizards made some abilities optional Like when they built the card like Has anyone in the history of this deck ever gotten to this point and gone actually no You know, I now that I'm here I've put my triggers on the stack. I know I've done all this, but you know, I Feel like I need to you know step back and maybe just rethink this and not let the Valokite trigger happen. I just gonna opt out. I'm gonna let my opponent off the hook here So wow surgical extraction Interesting one really hard to decide how to board here Once again engineered explosives straight out the door. I don't think we play around surgical extraction, right? Relic of progenitors the actually the only thing it really hits is Um the phoenix So I'm actually thinking that relic is kind of poor Chandra, how much damage does she actually deal? She wants to she can deal four damage So she can blow up a hollow one Minute 26 on the clock decisions to be made flame slash kills are an ancient Uh, what's he tireless feels like it might be good Um obstinate feels like it could be good trades with a hollow one Yep, I'm convinced I'm convinced these four aren't as good as these here So I'm doing this for starters And then my next candidate off the rank would be Another obstinate and take another bolt away that turn one bolt was handy against Thingo Down to 59 Oh, hang on down to 59. That's not what I want Primal command command seems good Primal command seems good. We're on it So what the guy will be wanting to do is find a way to get So can you surgical extraction Valica? Is there a realistic way of doing that? You have to Find a way to get into the graveyard searching. Oh interesting Definitely keeping. Um, do I search on turn one? Or do I place cinderglaid tapped on turn one keep? the debacle of last time Nothing turn one nothing I just don't think there's a reason to Well, hang on. Yes, there is. Hang on. There's a very good reason why we might not play the forest And search and the reason is that on turn two we can't cast farcek Unless we draw a land so In the interest of definitely getting to four mana on turn three and hitting ballas I think it's correct to play cinderglaid Untap play farcek Untap play ballas We'll get round to that when we get round to it Another alternative could be topdecks a menace adept And then we need to bolt it or we decide to bolt it Goblin the law maybe Yep, okay, we don't really mind A hollow one here might even ignore it might even just farcek and let it hit us for four He has maximized velocity Set the velocity with we're not burning Okay, we we did it right there. Oh burning inquiry. That's right So I keep thinking you throw your whole hand away. It's three cards at random Lily of the Vale is not that great against us. I don't think Oh head of your jump start you discard any card you want and pay red to give hollow one Big deal. No that didn't What did we lose? We lost our farcek. Okay, actually that that was probably the most important thing that could have happened there Because we've lost it We cannot play ballaf on turn three That opportunity is gone So I think it's just suspend I am worried that we still can't play cinderglaid untapped next turn either. I'm definitely I'm doing it. I'm definitely doing this Yeah, man hitting that farcek definitely helped him Because I feel like ballaf on turn three for us is very solid if we have time Which moment we do because he's not putting any pressure on us at all What have you got? Have you got any hollow ones? Uh, don't take stomping ground That was silly. I can just go fetch another glade, mate Or I can just fetch a mount. Oh, I can't fetch a mount with windswepties. All right, drew a land Now surge comes down next turn So we'll have five mana which time thinking about Preserve my life turtle. We'll go windy and we're holding up bolt obviously I just think he's wasted too much time mucking around. He's done faithless looting faithless looting burning inquiry and surgical extraction and that's all he's done And I'm on 20 Man, I might end up eating my words. Sure Lily, okay What do you want to do with her? We both discard. Okay, is that going to hurt you more than me? But that's just harsh Yeah, he can't win for me. Believe it or not, this is the first time I've ever done this with an obstinate balloth I I usually play I like to play a lot of discard decks Um eight rack is probably my favorite deck of all time There's some more videos on my channel if you're interested in eight rack And of course balloth is the card that everyone brings in against eight racks. I've I've I've been hit by balloth so many times Um That it's not funny so to actually You know to actually um I'm just gonna get I think the stopping ground. I'm gonna play around this a little bit This is this issue question is should I bolt lily and then let her tick up while I smash face? Or should I just kill? I think I'm just going to kill her right? with uh the balloth I think that really stinks on magic online is that lily unfail's worth about a third of what she was when I bought my playset Um, I know people watching this probably don't care about my specific problems in life Um, particularly, you know, my financial ups and downs and the world of magic the gathering So Did you go to the right thing? There we go lily killed her That's it must away the That cleave, I suppose Do I have any more? Yeah, so I don't have a lot of other forests to select. So The next windy windswept heath I draw You know, that'll be the last forest I can actually search for Okay, desperation time for our opponent Well full respect to rodduped juana um, but I submit to everybody watching that surgical extraction Oh, he's doing it again Like that doesn't that doesn't do anything man Taking that card off me does nothing Yeah Sure, go ahead and draw the cards man. You're good. You're good. It's got prowess Um, so what I was kicking around there was the idea of bolting his face to 12 Untapping flame slashing Don't get all illegal. He's just scooped it up So wow that's three for three. Um, now I am just in the Heads up room, you know, where you just go heads up one match one match bang Against an opponent. So I'm not in the league or anything like that. So I'm not being paired progressively against harder and harder opponents I'm just up against random. But uh, so we've faced their collected company kind of a new Experimental build featuring ashiok, which is a new mega mega answer to titan shift, but the rest of his deck was you know that fairly experimental um, and then the third match there was Hollow one and in all three The deck felt comfy. It felt like It felt like getting into a truck like into a big You know solid vehicle And you know, it's getting peppered with stuff and it's taken the hits But it still keeps on trucking. You can just keep on truck. You just keep playing your lands. Keep playing your far seeks when you draw them Unless he has a way to pull valor cut out of your deck exile it um If the game goes long and grindy Yeah, it's so you're in such such good shape And on top of that you have the just instant win if you cast and resolve escape shift Um, I'm going to continue Um with this because it's it's fun like Winning is really really fun So, um, anyway, thanks very much for watching and uh, we'll catch you on the next one. Cheers