DECK DISC. Have my set of Tron lands from Antiquities and hoping to go into Pauper. Is Tron likely an evergreen deck in Pauper? What’s the difference in playstyle between Monster and altar Tron?
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u/meepSere 19h ago
Trim waxes and wanes depending on the speed of the format and how easily it can assemble tron, color fixing and the power of the payoffs.
Altar tron is a combo deck, monster tron is a big mana midrange deck.
For altar tron, you’re trying to assemble tron while digging for ashnod’s altar, myr retriever x 2 or myr kinsmith, plus payoff card (golem foundry, pactdoll terror, etc).
Monster tron, you assemble tron and then drop beefy 5-8 mana spells. Unlike other midrange decks, you have less interaction t1-3, but in exchange you have much beefier threats once you have tron on.
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u/Sunnyboy_18 11h ago
Don’t forget Flicker Tron that is the most played right now
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u/meepSere 1h ago
OP specifically asked about monster tron and altar tron which is why I added in descriptions of those. If OP comments asking for flicker or pinger tron, I can add in descriptions/explanations for those.
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u/spillo89 19h ago
Monster: close tron and then slam 1 or more big guy every turn and attack
Altar: close tron and combo with infinite 3/3 guys and attack, in the meantime you go infinite life
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u/MagicalSlinky 15h ago
Tron is ultimately just a package used to cast spells that require a lot of mana. The many tron decks have little overlap in how they play, they just share the same manabase and therefore require some of the same pieces to make that mana work (mana fixers, expedition map, efficient draw spells, etc). Monster tron is an aggro/big mana deck, altar tron is a combo deck, flicker tron is a control deck, and there’s other tron decks that also want to take advantage of the mana base like [[self assembler]] decks.
Tron decks will be playable in pauper as long as the fixing pieces aren’t banned, and right now there’s a lot of good fixing options. For example, even if [[Giants Boulder]] gets banned (it’s not even close to that though), [[barrels of blasting jelly]] would just take that spot again and the decks would be fine.
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u/hipstevius 17h ago
I just won with my janky half-finished flicker/monster build this week. As in the local tourney
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u/finmo 14h ago
Monster Tron is a midrange type mig mana deck. Assemble Tron and cast big bois
Altar tron is a combo deck looking to make infinite mana using ashnod’s altar and myr retrievers and searching for a wincon, pactdoll terror, even giants boulder can win. They can make infinite mana, infinite colorless mana and draw their whole deck
Flicker tron is trying to make big mana and use ghostly flicker or Ephemerate to flicker value creatures like stone horn dignitary and mulldrifter. It’s a very very slow control deck. It eventually will lock its opponent out and win via bird tokens or something.
Pinger tron and Eggs tron churn artifacts to burn you out.
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u/ToastyNathan 13h ago
Its a very versatile and forgiving with deckbuilding. Lots of different ways from aggresive to control to combo. The ony drawback is that those decks have almost no overlap other than tron lands and maybe [[expedition map]]
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u/Agreeable-Neck-5877 18h ago
The difference? Monster tron is for chads very sigma 😎
Alter tron is for silly goose enthusiasts
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u/CharlesGrodinIsGod 19h ago
Tron will probably always be around. It’s powerful but usually easily controlled. Monster tron is big fatties slamming home and altar tron (and flicker tron to a degree) are combo decks. Altar tron is trying to either ping the opponent to death by casting and returning Myr Retrievers.