​One Ring to stall them all - Tron for RC Denver

One Ring to stall them all - Tron for RC Denver

By Noah Huizinga - Team Swish

Hello everyone! With RC Denver right around the corner, I have been playing a lot of modern to prepare and am sticking with the deck I’ve played for years: Tron. While I considered other familiar decks, such as Amulet Titan or Living End, I decided to stick with the deck I have the most experience with by far. Tron is in an interesting position in Modern right now. There are not a ton of truly bad matchups for the deck, but also not many that are very one-sided in Tron’s favor.

With the addition of The One Ring last summer, Tron has been able to keep up with the increasing power of decks in the format, allowing extra cards to be drawn and the time to use those cards is incredibly powerful in Tron where sometimes one card can completely flip an otherwise lost game on its head. With this card being so powerful and the chaining of two to three copies in a row so devastating, I have been trying out a new utility land in the deck with some great success: Buried Ruin. Years ago Buried Ruin had seen a small amount of play in Tron, but that fell off quite quickly and the card really hasn’t seen the light of day since. With The One Ring being a card that ends up in your graveyard often and playing the maximum number of oblivion stones because almost every deck in the format plays to the board heavily, Buried Ruin will have plenty of premium targets in the graveyard to get back. Allowing an extra casting of The One Ring to buy you more time or an extra Oblivion Stone to reset the board are both incredibly impactful plays. If you want to get extra spicy, you can sideboard Crucible of Worlds for your Karn, the Great Creator to tutor to lock your opponents out for the rest of the game with an endless chain of Buried Ruin activations and One Ring triggers.

One other addition that I have made outside of normal stock Tron lists is World Breaker. It’s cast trigger hits a lot of relevant cards in the format such as Urza’s Saga, Amulet of Vigor, Leyline Binding, Fable of the Mirror Breaker while also hitting Tron lands and The One Ring in the mirror.

This along with it’s very large reach body holds off just about everything in the format aside from a very large Murktide Regent. It’s ability to come back from the graveyard should not be overlooked either. Repeatedly recurring and slowly winnowing away resources on the field is a problem for any deck trying to go long.

I have many more thoughts on Tron right, but this article aims to address new card considerations related to how I plan on attacking the current Modern meta. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me, I'm more than happy to talk to anyone about Tron. The last thing I wanted to go over is my current sideboard guide. Luckily, with this being a Karn deck, sideboarding is usually quite light, but that just makes it the more important to board correctly. I will also leave my current deck list below. Thank you for reading and remember, 1+1+1 =7!

Decklist: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5701484#paper