Primeval Titan Tron Help
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Posted on Dec. 24, 2017, 11:44 p.m. by RhinoSmash
Hey all - I have always loved Primeval Titan and was curious why he never found a home in Tron decks after Cloudpost was banned. I figured I'd give it a shot and so far at my local FNMs, I've had some pretty solid success with it always ranging from X-2 to a few undefeated nights which have been awesome.
If you had some time to check the list out, I'd love any and all suggestions. The main point I have is the missing consistency that Eye of Ugin gave me pre-ban. Conduit of Ruin has been my main replacement, but it's taken up key slots and doesn't perform to the same degree, though it hasn't been all bad.
Thanks in advance!
Decklist: Tron The Breach
Im not very familiar with Tron, but this is an interesting idea! I like the through the breach tech. Consider Summoner's Pact for more redundancy over Conduit? you can use it to get Titan, then youll have more than enough mana to pay next upkeep. Id think of the deck more like the Amulet combo deck than Tron, except you get big mana with the Tron lands instead of Karoo.
I think Walking Ballista is strong enough to include more copies, too. Most creature decks cant face down a 4/4 Ballista gunning down their creatures and reloading each turn.
December 25, 2017 3:48 p.m. Edited.
The issue with Primeval Titan is it has 2 green mana symbols in casting cost. So you are either casting it turn 3 with a god hand of 3 tron lands, 2 colour conversion artifacts or turn 4-5-6 in which cast it isn't that amazing?
Compare to Karn, who can value your opponent out the game and keep them off lands. Or Wurmcoil Engine who just ends any kind of creature combat and gets value from any non exile removal. Or walking ballistia who lets you take control of the board.
Prime Time is best served in decks that rush him turn 4ish and snowball his effect like Ponza or Scapeshift.
December 25, 2017 6:31 p.m.
RhinoSmash says... #5
abby315: Funny you should say that about the amulet titan deck, that was the deck I was playing before I got into this idea. And I experimented with Tron lands in that except having and finding colorless threats to sink mana into in that deck was fairly hard to come by as it was so dedicated to getting a titan out and making sure that he was your big finisher. I tried putting in some other things but it ended up diluting it to the point of just a wishy-washy blend of the two that had trouble ever getting rolling. Summoner's Pact is something I had been thinking about, but only having one green target has been my biggest holding point, but making sure that I do have a titan whwnever I have a Through the Breach is tempting and a more consistent Tron is definitely a plus. You are totally correct about Walking Ballista, though. That will become a 4-of ASAP. It is just too good. Thanks for the comment!
LeaPlath: Agreed, casting him isn't that amazing, but hard casting him is plan c, which is still a pretty good plan c. He is a Through the Breach target along with the other (eldrazi) titans. I definitely understand that this isn't as consistent as the T1 Tron decks, but I just wanted to try something different as I like brewing and don't really love just netdecking, although I'm not one of those people who are so hateful against it, I just like doing spicy things of my own design here and there and I thought Through the Breach was a cool idea since the original cloudpost decks were so powerful. Appreciate the comment and input!
shadow63 says... #2
The reason its not played is because by the time you want to play that you'd rather play one of your tron targets. That being said I've used it in my causal 8 post deck and he puts in work
December 25, 2017 1:17 p.m.