SplinterScape TwinShift

by casey130 on 20 June 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

A combination of the 2 popular Modern combo decks Splinter Twin and Scapeshift. It has so many ways to just randomly win and Splinter Twin on Sakura Tribe Elder is really cool.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Splinter Twin
  • Combo
  • scapeshift

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for SplinterScape TwinShift

this is ridiculous. in a good way. it is a double combo though. i like explore, maybe sideboard it?

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Posted 20 June 2014 at 18:31

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well nevermind, lol. didnt have a sideboard when i commented

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Posted 20 June 2014 at 19:17

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What would I side Explore in against?

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Posted 20 June 2014 at 22:21

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i would have it mainboard really, draw a card and play an extra land is good. its in alot of shift decks

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Posted 20 June 2014 at 22:41

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Yeah, the Gitaxian Probe's are the spots I am really messing around with so i'll see

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Posted 21 June 2014 at 05:39

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this deck has all sorts of "F*** YOU!!!" in it. i like it!!!! :D

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Posted 20 June 2014 at 19:15

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So many ways just to randomly win!

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Posted 20 June 2014 at 22:21

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I'm trying to play a slightly different version of this deck! I'm glad that someone else had the same insight of me about it, maybe we could share some ideas about it :)
I play: +3 Lightning Bolt, +1 Electrolyze, +2 Izzet Charm, +1 Pestermite; -1 Splinter Twin, -3 Explore, -1 Remand, -1 Spellskite, -1 Deceiver Exarch.

I prefer to have some more interaction for the affinity and jund match-up maindeck. I enjoyed the versatility of the deck, the different ways to win from nowhere. I noted to have great problems post-sideboard though. Maindeck I often win (the only match-up which I lost maindeck are Mono-U Tron and Jund), but post-sideboard I feel to be always too "light".

Last FNM I tried this sideboard, but didn't worked so well against Affinity (4 matches lost post-sideboard! o_O):

1 Electrolyze
1 Deceiver Exarch
1 Splinter Twin
1 Batterskull
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Counterflux
1 Negate
1 Dispel
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
1 Spellskite
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Relic of Progenitus

The more evident flaw of this sideboard are the Splinter Twin and the Deceiver Exarch: never play maindeck cards in sideboard. Bad idea. No green cards in sideboard is also stupid: green is the main color of the deck, while blue (and red) are the splash. I need to confront about it, sideboard games are much more important than maindeck ones.

Next tuesday I'll be testing this deck more seriously to bring it at the modern ptq here in Italy. Here Splinter Twin and Jund decks are the majority of the field, so if you have ideas for the sideboard I'll welcome them! :)

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Posted 29 June 2014 at 11:41

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I really appreciate the feedback, I havent actually got to test this deck yet, Ive been playing a Grixis Cruel Control deck for awhile:
http://www.mtgvault.com/casey130/decks/grixis-cruel-control-modern/

Anyways, you say that this deck does not do good against (mono U) Tron and Jund and my local metagame seems to have a lot of RG Tron and Jund

Also Batterskull and the Baloths are really good against Jund

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Posted 30 June 2014 at 01:28

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Baloth is a good sideboard card, but the ~15% of Jund in our meta isn't enough to put him in my side: if Burn and Zoo become more oppressive I could make a thought though.
I'd prefer something like Keranos, God of Storms, which I was thinking about: it seems strong against midrange and control strategies, giving you a reliable source of incremental advantage, and difficoult to remove too (Jund can't kill him in any way, it must discard him; control can only counter or bounce and then counter him).
I feel like I'm soft to RG Tron as well as Mono-U Tron, but it's more a hunch than an analysis.

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Posted 30 June 2014 at 11:39

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Also: I was thinking about the affinity match-up, and I concluded that maindeck there's no need of a clunky card like Electrolyze, which is brutal in the match-up, but less versatile of, say, Cryptic Command. Maybe I could cut it for a singleton Cryptic...

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Posted 30 June 2014 at 12:00

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Keranos seems really cool, I wanna try him in Modern still

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Posted 30 June 2014 at 23:33

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im actually testing out a keranos scry deck myself. i just did an initial constructed build and i already know what tweaks are going to be make since certain cards i dont have in it at the moment. anyhow give it a look and tell me what you think
http://www.mtgvault.com/drakeraenes/decks/scry-storm/

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Posted 01 July 2014 at 00:02

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Have you tried out Keranos at an event yet?

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Posted 01 July 2014 at 14:40

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I didnt personally no. I played an izzet deck with him in it for the nyx release and it kicked my behind quite thoroughly. Keranos is what did me in each time

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Posted 01 July 2014 at 16:09

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Yesterday I tested a lot against Jund maindeck: seems a even match-up. Jund can't do anything against a topdecked Scapeshift, nor he can do anything if doesn't know you're playing the Twin combo, he simply taps out at the third turn and you can go for it. However their discard spells and Liliana are a beating in the early game: we don't have solutions for a resolved Liliana, and once she lands the only way to win is to combo off the turn after, or drop a land each turn, and topdeck a Scapeshift. Anyway the only discard spell which can discard Scapeshift that Jund plays maindeck is Thoughtseize, and usually it's only 2 copies. Also: a Jund player starts it's game at 17-15 life, and that's helpful to combo with Scapeshift as soon as you can.

At the end it's a fair game: a bit centered on Liliana, or multiple Goyfs; if you can stop the bleeding from your hand or your life total, and buy enough time to assemble one of your combo, the game should come to its end soon.

Post-side the plan is to resolve Scapeshift while playing threats like Batterskull/Keranos/Wurmcoil, which are really difficult to remove for them. However I think that some pieces of the Twin combo should remain, to avoid the risk of getting beaten by a Slaughter Games!

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Posted 01 July 2014 at 19:58

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Thanks for all the info, I really need to find out how to beat Jund, as I said before there is a lot of Jund/Junk at local meta

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Posted 02 July 2014 at 03:06

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As the tests continue I'll update with info on the match-ups :)

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Posted 02 July 2014 at 19:05

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Thanks a bunch :)

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Posted 02 July 2014 at 23:49

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As usual I tried only maindeck:

Affinity: pre-side it's a race. If you have the twin combo in hand you just can't lose if they don't win on turn 3. If you don't the only way to win is to stall the board (bolt, electrolyze, snapcaster on one of them, pestermite/exarch which taps some threat), until you win with scapeshift/find the splinter twin. Match-up: 60-40.

Dead Guy's Ale (BW midrange with pack rat): It's impossible to win with twin (too much removals and even if they are tapped-out they still threaten you with Slaughter Pact), but a topdecked scapeshift is all that's required. The deck is too slow to clock you, and you have some ways to take your time and win. The deck also does himself a lot of damage, so usually you only have to arrive to 7 lands. Liliana is the big threat: if Liliana sticks it's difficult to win, because we don't have many ways to stop her reaching the ultimate. Match-up: 55-45 (a little better than Jund, because Jund has more reach thanks to Lightning Bolt).

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Posted 10 July 2014 at 10:26

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Awesome thanks, Jund is really hard to beat but I'm not too worried about Affinity

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Posted 10 July 2014 at 17:51

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The problem of BG(x) is Liliana: I play 5 counters (3 remand and 2 izzet charm), and that helps. Jund plays 5-6 discard spell (usually 3 inquisition of kozilek and 2-3 thoughtseize), so they won't be able everytime to protect her AND disrupt our combo. BG the Rock and Deadguy's Ale instead plays a lot more disruption (7 or more discard spells), but their clock is much slower (usually they play less threats), and if they only attack with one threat at the time we can tap it with Mite/Exarch or chumpblock it easily with Sakura.

Post-sideboard could be an idea to play Leyline of Sanctity, which protects us also from Slaughter Games (even if against us it's not so strong as against "pure" Twin of Scapeshift).

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Posted 10 July 2014 at 19:19

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Yeah, the Scapeshift half of the deck, I guess, would be the better half, you just wanna top deck Scapeshift a little later

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Posted 10 July 2014 at 22:45

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