Tron is back in Legacy, and this time it’s bringing blue cards with it.
That’s the big takeaway from this week’s edition of “This Week in Legacy: Is Tron Back?”, the column by Joe Dyer covering the MTGO Legacy scene. After the banning of Candelabra of Tawnos, Tron has evolved from a colorless big mana deck into a blue-based one, and it was the most played deck of the week.
Tron’s Blue Makeover
The shift comes down to a few key cards. Stock Up, Portent of Calamity, and Force of Will give the deck ways to protect its game plan while still casting the big colorless spells like The One Ring.
“One of the big reasons this list works best is because of how much cards like Stock Up, Portent of Calamity, and other blue spells scale alongside the big colorless spells,” Dyer writes.
Even a singleton Thundertrap Trainer earns its slot, using Offspring to get extra value from the mana Tron generates. The result is a deck that can do powerful things while also stopping opponents with Force of Will and Force of Negation.
Since the Candle ban, Tron has logged around 95 entries with a 49.9% non-mirror win rate. That’s barely a coin flip, and Dyer attributes part of that to new players picking up the deck without the reps to pilot it well.
“I do think it’s worth keeping an eye on the deck, and I also think it’s a pretty strong contender going into Eternal Weekend,” he says.
The Week in Numbers
The weekly data set covered roughly 243 decklists, not counting 60 players in a Challenge with no data, bringing the total to about 303. Tron led the field at 30 copies but posted a middling 45.8% non-mirror win rate.
The rest of the top five shook out like this:
- Tron — 30 copies, 45.8% win rate
- Dimir Tempo — 26 copies, 54.8% win rate
- D&T — 17 copies, 49.5% win rate
- Boros Energy — 16 copies, 61.4% win rate
- Doomsday — 16 copies, 56.4% win rate
Dimir Tempo is thriving with Moonshadow and Bilbo, Thief in the Night, which lets decks flash back removal spells repeatedly. Boros Energy overwhelmed opposing removal, though Bilbo can shift that matchup. Doomsday remains a strong combo option against Boros and D&T.
Challenge Results
The 9/1 Legacy Challenge had 50 players. Creative Technique took the win, helped by Petrified Hamlet, which shuts down Wasteland against a deck whose lands mostly enter tapped.
Dimir Control took second, with Bilbo flashing back removal spells. Saga Storm rounded out the bottom of the Top 8, running Giant’s Boulder as a fetch target for Saga.
Dyer notes the ban on Candelabra of Tawnos was meant to let a Planar Nexus-based Tron variant exist and be good. He still disagrees with the call.
“A ban I still believe was the wrong one personally,” he writes.
Whether this is the place Wizards wanted Tron to land remains an open question. For now, the deck is popular, playable, and worth watching.
Source: mtggoldfish.com
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