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It's pretty clear that Rg Sligh has been obsoleted by Zoo. Here's why:
1. Incinerate is mediocre. The only reason it sees play in Burn and Sligh is because once you get down to the last 4 or 8 slots in the deck, there's nothing clearly better than Incinerate left to play in those slots. Sure, every deck has to have a worst card, but when your worst card is a Lightning Bolt that costs an extra , that's a problem. Ideally, you want your worst card to be Magma Jet.
2. Sligh usually loses game 1 to CounterTop, and doesn't improve enough after sideboarding to make the matchup a good one overall. Zoo plays maindeck Pridemage, which improves that matchup quite a bit. Sligh can maindeck Shushers, but Shushers are pretty bad against non-CounterTop decks. Pridemages have much more utility.
I don't think it's pretty clear at all. Both decks play fundamentally different game plans. If anything, I think Burn is obsolete because of Goyf Sligh, not Goyf Sligh obsolete because of Zoo.