Budget Tron

Modern* Budget RG (Gruul) Tron

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Lands (21)

• 1x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 4x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 4x Urza's Mine
• 4x Urza's Power Plant
• 4x Urza's Tower

Stalling (7)

• 1x Blood Sun
• 2x Kozilek's Return
• 2x Perilous Vault
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Relic of Progenitus

Tron (12)

• 4x Ancient Stirrings
• 4x Expedition Map
• 4x Sylvan Scrying

Finisher (12)

• 2x Breaker of Armies
• 4x Myr Battlesphere
• 4x Steel Hellkite
• 2x World Breaker

Colorfixing (8)

• 4x Chromatic Sphere
• 4x Chromatic Star

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 1x Blood Sun
• 2x Crumble to Dust
• 1x Kozilek's Return
• 3x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 2x Pulse of Murasa
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Spatial Contortion
• 2x Warping Wail

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Maybeboard

Utility (11)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Blood Sun
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Titan's Presence

Budget Finisher (9)

• 1x Bane of Bala Ged
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Eldrazi Devastator
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Gelatinous Genesis
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Reality Smasher
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Finisher (5)

• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Lands (4)

• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Stomping Ground

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Budget Tron:

This is my take on GiantMonsterGames Budget Urza Tron - $90.

There are plenty of different Tron versions: Tron (utilizing Eldrazi Temple), Tron (using Mindslaver) and Tron are most popular.

I decided to go with a Budget Version of Tron. (To See what makes this deck "budget", look under the "Upgrade Path" Section)

How does this deck win?

The Idea of all Tron Decks is to assemble all three Urza-Lands (Mine, Tower and Power Plant) as early as Turn 3 or 4, resulting in Mana with just 3 Lands.

Then use that Mana to cast some scary threats to smash your opponents face in. In this case, those threats are big, scary, colourless creatures.

How do I assemble Tron?

We cannot rely on drawing into natural Tron, that is why we play:

• Expedition Map and card:Silvan Scrying which allow for tutoring for missing tron pieces
• Ancient Stirrings helps as well, as it lets us dig 5 deep to find a colorless card. (all Lands are colorless) We can also use it later on to dig up or Finishers, those are all coulorless as well.

This deck is pretty reliable at assembling Tron on turn 3 or 4. (That is, if our opponent does not have a way to disrupt you.)

But if we aim to play a Tron Land every turn, how to we cast Green spells?

With Chromatic Sphere and Chromatic Star we have 8 cards that allow us to filter our colorless Tron Mana into any color we want in turn 2. An added benefit is that they replace themselves by Drawing a card when we sacrifice them.

How do I stay alive long enough?

Well, there are 2 Kozilek's Return in the deck to help stay alive against some aggro matchups. I put in Pithing Needle against Combo and Relic of Progenitus against graveyard strategies as a one off. Not to many Decks are capable of winning before you assemble Tron. So just hope for the best.

Perilous Vault is in for the slower matchups (like Prison). Blood Sun protects our Tron and disables Fetch-Lands.

One benefit of Tron is that we can allow to have a lot of answers to other strategies, even before sideboarding.

I have Tron, what now?

I hope you have a Finisher in Hand to cast it, if not, start digging with Ancient Stirrings and cycle through your deck with Shperes and Stars. Keep pulling out lands with Map and Sylvan Scrying as well.

Land Base:

Utility:

• Mine, Tower and Power Plant (obviously)
• Ghost Quarter against Mirror Matchups
• Scavenger Grounds as main deck graveyard hate (no one likes scooping to dredge)
• Sea Gate Wreckage prevents you from running out of gas late game

Tron naturally has ways of pulling out the non-basic land you want, use it to find the utility Land you want.

Fixing and Basics

• Karplusan Forest for (painfull) color fixing
• Forest and Mountain (always play at least a few basics, otherwise Ghost Quarter and Field of Ruin will hit you twice as hard)

Sideboard:

• Crumble to Dust Tron really does not like to get hit by this.
• Nature's Claim get's rid of of enchantments and artifacts. Tron does not really care about the Life gain. We rely on having a superiour board state mid/late and keeping it. Nevertheless you can use Naturalize or whatever you prefer.
• Kozilek's Return for more board wipes. We really want this against Aggro Matchups.
• Pulse of Murasa get's you back a Tron Piece, Utility Land or even Finisher while gaining you life.
• Relic and Pithing Needle so we can go up to two of each
• Ratchet Bomb is great against Tokens and gives us an out against Prison-Decks
• A second copy of Blood Sun
• Spatial Contortion and Warping Wail give us cheap removal that get's hit by Ancient Stirrings both have some bonus utility options

Upgrade Path:

• Get better Finishers: Typically this deck plays Karn as well as Ugin. Others prefer Ulamog or Wurmcoil Engine. There are a lot of options here.
• get Oblivion Stone instead of Perilous Vault
• consider Stomping Ground, it synergizes very well with Blood Sun
• Crucible of Worlds and Life from the Loam are great alternatives for Pulse of Murasa

Budget Options:

To be honest: This Deck really is a Budget Version, you can still go cheaper, by going with GiantMonsterGames Mono Green Version. (Budget Urza Tron - $90)

This is as cheap as Tron gets. It is designed for easy and progressive upgrading.

WIP:

I am still playtesting this Deck. I do not have too much experience in playing it and I am gratefull for any advice you can give.

I am currently thinking about using 2 more basic lands instead of Karplusan Forest. Not sure how it would do (depending on sideboard).

Thank you for Looking at my Deck. Please feel free to comment any questions or suggestions.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 16 - 3 Rares 20 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Myr 1/1 C
Folders	Decks, MDRN, Tron, Owned, Modern Budget, Test Decks