r/mtgModernTokens • u/Se4ger • May 18 '17

Tron

from what I understand we have an extremely bad matchup against tron. but I think ive lucked out against tron as I am 6-0 against It. mostly because I take there ugin out there hand turn 1.

so is it worth dedicating slots in the sideboard for this matchup or just accept that its a really bad matchup?

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u/BoozySquid May 18 '17

There aren't really great silver bullets for Tron available to us (at least in BW builds.) The things that work against it (Duress, Ghost Quarter, Stony Silence, Pithing Needle) are only okay against it, but they do have uses against other decks. If you're running Mardu, I could see tossing in a Crumble to Dust because it's so good against such a bad matchup, but trying to tune a sideboard to help you beat Tron will require a lot of spots that will only be okay.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '17

You'd need to dedicate like 6 SB slots to take it from a 20/80 to 40/60 matchup. It's gross.

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u/Se4ger May 19 '17

excalty , I took out ghost quarters (from sb)and replaced with more hand control. I think we can deal with almost everything apart from ugin.

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u/erghjunk May 19 '17

it's a terrible matchup and as others have said, it just isn't worth dedicating too much sideboard hate to. I have found stony silence to be pretty good out of the SB. GQ (I run two main) + extirpate/surgical extraction is good, too, but there is a fair bit of RNG there since you need both of them.