Tronfinity deck help
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on Oct. 22, 2017, 7:26 p.m. by Kornychris2016
This might seem like an odd combo but I'm wanting to build a semi competitive to competitive deck that smashes together both Tron and affinity.
For years I've wanted an Affinity deck and I've always equally wanted a Tron deck. A friend jokingly suggest I combine them.
Is that to far of a stretch to accomplish? What cards would you suggest? Help please.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......I'm not sure about this just yet. One of the benefits of Affinity is the power of its man lands and an explosive early game. Tron just gets put together, then starts doing unfair things (like turn 3 Karn Liberated).
This current iteration seems like a weaker version of Mono-Brown Eldrazi Tron, except it doesn't have Eldrazi Temple. At the same time, it's not nearly as fast as Affinity because it doesn't have Springleaf Drum and a bunch of 1 and 0 CMC creatures.
Which brings me to this:
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=17158&d=306167&f=VI
...which is a Vintage deck. Of course, we're looking for Modern options, but there's some cool things going on that I think you should see.
First, it has several lands that produce more than on turn 1, backed up by land disruption. While we don't have anything like Mishra's Workshop in Modern, we do have Urza's Tower.
Second, it relies a lot on fast mana. Seem familiar? We have Springleaf Drum, Mox Opal, and a plethora of mana rocks and dorks.
Third, look at the creatures. It's using Arcbound Ravager, Walking Ballista and Hangarback Walker just like you are, but it's forgoing the high CMC artifacts in favor of Phyrexian Revoker, Lodestone Golem, Thorn of Amethyst, and Sphere of Resistance.
So how can we port this to Modern? I think you're right playing Tron lands, but then I'd toss in Inkmoth Nexus and Blinkmoth Nexus. Maybe you play Glimmervoid, Darksteel Citadel, Academy Ruins, Buried Ruin, and some basics if you have room.
Foundry Inspector and Etherium Sculptor can further speed things up. Not only do they lower the cost on everything, you basically get free +1/+1 counters from them.
But probably the strongest aspect to playing this type of deck in Modern? Trinisphere, Thorn of Amethyst, Chalice of the Void, and Lodestone Golem are all unrestricted, unlike Vintage where you can only have 1 of each. Probably the dumbest thing you could do is play a turn 2 Trinisphere/Thorn of Amethyst into turn 3 Ghost Quarter and Lodestone Golem.
The thing you have to be mindful of is that your mana base isn't as good as it is in Vintage, so too many Sphere of Resistance effects can cripple you more than your opponent. You also have to decide between playing a bunch of powerful 1-mana accelerators (Expedition Map, Springleaf Drum, and so on) or Chalice of the Void. I'd also forgo some of the higher CMC cards normally seen in Tron like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. Swap these out for cards like Phyrexian Revoker or Thought-Knot Seer.
October 23, 2017 5:47 p.m.
Kornychris2016 says... #5
That was a very helpful post. Thank you. Time to keep tweaking this monster.
APPLE01DOJ says... #2
Go to the deck builder and throw together a rough draft. Then post it here for us to help you out with.
It won't be as consisted normal Tron or Affinity but could still be viable and fun to play.
October 22, 2017 7:51 p.m.