Knight of the Reliquary is one of the most powerful cards in Modern. It's a huge threat that comes down early and threatens to find powerful utility lands like Sejiri Steppe, Ghost Quarter, and Bojuka Bog to punish opponents. Knight of the Reliquary was primarily used for powering cards like Lotus Cobra in Standard, but since the rotation, it hasn't seen much in the way of landfall tricks. Clemagel is looking to change that:

Scapeshift Zoo | Modern | Clemagel, 5-0 Modern League

• Creatures (12)
• 4 Knight of the Reliquary
• 4 Plated Geopede
• 4 Steppe Lynx

• Instants (4)
• 4 Manamorphose

• Sorceries (12)
• 4 Boom // Bust
• 4 Explore
• 4 Scapeshift

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Prismatic Omen

• Lands (28)
• 1 Forest
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Sejiri Steppe
• 1 Temple Garden
• 4 Flagstones of Trokair
• 4 Sacred Foundry
• 4 Stomping Ground
• 4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 4 Windswept Heath
• 4 Wooded Foothills

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 4 Path to Exile
• 4 Pyroclasm
• 1 Rest in Peace
• 1 Shatterstorm
• 1 Soaring Seacliff
• 3 Stony Silence

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The interesting thing about this deck is that it has a combo backup plan. You can slowly work your way up to six or seven lands with Boom and Flagstones of Trokair and then Scapeshift your opponent out, particularly with some help from Prismatic Omen. However, one of the exciting things about this deck is that Scapeshift can just kill people with Landfall triggers instead of having to ramp all the way up to Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle.

Many of Modern's best decks have a typical aggressive or midrange gameplan backed up by some kind of combo finish. The fact that this deck has a fast beatdown plan, a combo to end the game, and a means of utilizing your combo piece to enhance your aggressive starts means that this deck is set up to steal games from players who aren't prepared. If people treat you like an aggro deck, they may leave their shields down and lose to Scapeshift. If they don't respect your beatdown plan, you'll manage to get one too many landfall triggers and steal the game from them.