Budget Tron Help Me Please
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on Feb. 20, 2018, 9:38 p.m. by Pocket_Lint
Creatures:4x Bane of Bala Ged4x Myr Battleshpere2x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger2x Wurmcoil Engine2x World Breaker
Sorcerys:4x Ancient Stirrings2x Explore4x Sylvan Scrying
Artifacts:4x Chromatic Sphere2x Chromatic Star4x Expidition Map2x Perilous Vault1x Relic of Progenitus2x Terrarion
Lands:4x Urza's Mine 4x Urza's Power Plant4x Urza's Tower1x Mountain8x Forest
My budget is under 150 if you can. I recently got back into magic after 2 years of absence. I'm starting a new modern deck but if you guys have some standard format ideas i will take those too.
ToolmasterOfBrainerd says... #3
I'd load up on at least 2 Relic of Progenitus, and possibly up to 4. It's really good against a lot of things right now.
Oblivion Stone is not too expensive because it just got reprinted and it's better than Perilous Vault, but I guess not that much better.
February 21, 2018 1:09 a.m.
Karplusan Forest is a good budget land if you want to play it RG for the sweepers, because you can usually avoid to tap it for coloured mana, but you will have both Red and green if you need them.
February 21, 2018 1:49 a.m.
Spirit_Logan says... #5
i know nothing about tron
I do have a standard deck that you can get for cheap(er than the tron deck)
I never used ramunap ruins anyways
Standard
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February 21, 2018 9:15 a.m.
My go-to budget Tron list I recommend to help grind FNMs is:
2x Forest
3+ Fungal Reaches OR Pinecrest Ridge
1x Ghost Quarter1x Inventors' Fair
1x Urza's Factory OR Sanctum of Ugin
4x Urza's Mine
4x Urza's Power Plant
4x Urza's Tower
This gives several utility lands, while also having a good balance of colored mana. The important thing to remember: you absolutely cannot have lands come into play tapped and you will lose games to decks like Burn and Death's Shadow if you have to pay life. The obvious choice is Grove of the Burnwillows for this very reason. However, that obviously will eat your entire budget.
Pinecrest Ridge is probably the best replacement. Not only does it have the option to just tap for colorless and come into play untapped, you can get the or you need to search for Tron pieces or cast Pyroclasm.
4x Sylvan Scrying
4x Ancient Stirrings
4x Expedition Map
2x Talisman of Impulse
4x Chromatic Sphere
4x Chromatic Star
This is pretty standard for a Tron list, the exception being Talisman of Impulse. While you don't want to be paying the life against faster decks, having the ability to tap for colored mana and still get Tron on turn 3 is more helpful when you're on a budget. It means you can play multiple World Breakers, add Inferno Titans, or use whatever budget options you have lying around when some of the more expensive fat cards (like Karn Liberated or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth) aren't available. That way, you're not relying a whole lot on cards like Myr Battlesphere or Steel Hellkite.
4x Ratchet Bomb / Oblivion Stone
4x Pyroclasm
1x All Is Dust
You need boardwipes. Pyroclasm is especially important because you will lose to a turn one Slippery Bogle is you do not kill it immediately. They will untap on their turn two and toss an umbra on it. By the time you can use another piece of removal, you'll be so low on life that they can simply play another one or get you with Dryad Arbor. The same is true against turn one Glistener Elf. They will use something like Apostle's Blessing to deal with whatever you have once they untap.
You can skip on red and go straight mono-green, but then you just have to accept that you lose to Infect, Bogles, and Burn. If these aren't in your meta, replace Talisman of Impulse with Mind Stone or Relic of Progenitus and the lands with basic Forests and a 2nd. Ghost Quarter.
The All Is Dust is probably the only non-budget card I'd recommend you have because of how much 3+ color decks get BTFO'd on turn three when you slam it. If it's still out of your budget, replace it with a Platinum Angel.
That's 50 cards total. Your last 10 cards should be:
- Huge
- OR win conditions
- OR removal
Basically, choose a combination of the following that fits into your budget (I put them in order of importance):
- Karn Liberated
- Wurmcoil Engine
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- World Breaker
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Sundering Titan
- Spellskite
- Relic of Progenitus
- Steel Hellkite
- Spatial Contortion
- Warping Wail
- Myr Battlesphere
Based on what you've posted, I'd recommend something like:
2x Wurmcoil Engine
2x Sundering Titan (you can power this out on turn 3 via Talisman of Impulse and laugh at some Jund player's $2,000 mana base as they concede)
1x Worldbreaker
4x Relic of Progenitus
1x Spatial Contortion
All that's left is your sideboard. Based on the above, I'd go with:
2x Ancient Grudge
1x Defense Grid
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Grafdigger's Cage
3x Nature's Claim
1x Orbs of Warding
1x Spatial Contortion
3x Thragtusk
1x Torpor Orb
1x Warping Wail
February 21, 2018 3:54 p.m.
Pocket_Lint says... #7
unfortunatley my budget is around 90$ tops but this info will go to very good use for knowledge on future upgrades. Thank you very much for your time and effort.
APPLE01DOJ says... #2
Idea for standard:
Don't play standard :)
February 20, 2018 10:07 p.m.