MTG Salvation

Herp derp, lame YuGiOh joke, I know, but it's the catchiest name for a deck utilizing the bomb of all bombs, the ultimate boardwipe, the largest nuke this side of Decree of Annihilation and Worldfire.

What do you get when you combine Wrath of God, Supreme Verdict, Armageddon, and Creeping Corrosion, and then give it to the best color in magic?

"Exodia, Obliterate!!!"

If you follow my latest posts at all, you know I am a huge fan of Tron. And not just the pre-established versions, I think there is so much more that Tron can do that just needs a bit of creativity and tinkering with to discover and put together. I currently have way more Tron ideas in my head than any sane person should, most likely not viable outside of casual games. Red being my favorite single color in magic, I felt that it didn't quite get the justice it merits from the KarnTron lists as being an auxiliary color for Pyroclasm and some other shenanigans out of the board, so mono-Red Tron was born.

The key with Tron is to find obscene things to do with colorless mana that can be aided by your colors in question. Green as a primary color gives you land searches through Sylvan Scrying and Ancient Stirrings. Blue gives you access to Academy Ruins and its interaction with Mindslaver requiring the Ruins and 12 mana.

What can Red do? It can throw damage straight at you with X-spells like Blaze or it can blow up the world.



I've only had a few games with it, but I really enjoy the direction this is taking. I'll be working on this as time allows, but feel free to jump in and help out

Why not just load up on the Wurmcoils? When you obliterate you leave behind two tokens and your opponents has no lands, which should seal up the game quickly.

Quote from Kamahl, the Fallen »

Red tron without Through the Breach? That card can just give you free wins.

Effective use of Through the Breach would require a much greater threat density than what this deck wants to do, I think. Especially when it only really gives free wins when Emrakul jumps through, which would need 4 of him/her/it, and then 4 Breaches, and a bunch more dig to find them, and I feel like that becomes a completely different deck at that point. I could definitely see a BreachTron variant, and TtB is an excellent card, I just don't feel this is its home.

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Why not just load up on the Wurmcoils? When you obliterate you leave behind two tokens and your opponents has no lands, which should seal up the game quickly.

You're right. There should be more Wurms. The list I put up is what I currently run on Cockatrice, which I try to match with my budget (or something more or less realistic). The Wurms would probably take over the Doom Engine slots, if I could afford them. Guess I should put up an "ideal" and "budgeted list" up there.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate the input

Eye of ugin from the regular tron builds seems like it would do the same work here. Finding the wurmcoils to then obliterate with is a relatively necessary task, no? Have you given any thought to crucible of worlds to allow for faster rebuilding? Or maybe something like hoarding dragon to fetch random one of artifacts (I know it's bad if it gets pathed, but otherwise pretty good when the world goes kaboom, so to speak)

Very nice list! I like this idea. I myself am testing with black tron and would love to test against you. However I play on Xmage not Cockatrice. If you feel like downloading the program and playtesting let me know in a PM/Message and I will send you the link to the download of Xmage.

Also feel free to look at my mono black list in my Signature.

Nice to know that there are people who believe in other colors besides RG, WU, and mono U.

So where are my red makes trying this with trash for Treasure, pyromancers goggles + banefire???

What clever synergy am I missing with regard to the Hondens? They seems really bad, particularly as a two-of. I get that they survive an Obliterate, but surely that's not enough to warrant their inclusion??

Maybe it's his answer to mana dorks post obliterate? It's not the worst for that, but I would think there are probably better ideas. Maybe one of the red planeswalkers would be better in that slot. Koth of the hammer or the newer sarkhan dragonspeaker would be pretty good, even though they cost more. The blue honden used to see play because of the essentially personal howling mine ever turn, but that has been replaced by keranos, god of storms in most of those builds.

I must be missing something... Why work hard to get TROHN only to destroy all your TRon lands? I see the gargadon and Wurmcoil, but it just seems slower than other TRon wins. I like a lot of it red sun zenith is cool, but it looks like you are ramping just to put yourself at a disadvantage too and you have a bunch of expensive spells you can top deck after blowing up the world...