MTG - Love control? Bring yourself online in Modern, with MONO Blue Urza TRON - Magic: The Gathering
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Mono blue Tron is surprisingly cheap for such a competitive deck. While still not quite tier 1, it is still extremely powerful, and it can also serve as a great intro point into the format for those that love to play control.
In fact, for the fanatic blue player, this deck offer precise, almost clockwork control. It can also serve as way to start building towards the more powerful, but much, much more expensive Red Green Tron.
Running at about $150, many of these components can be had on the cheap, and a few of the more costlier pieces might already be in your binder.
The heart of this deck are the Urza lands, bring one of each into play and you have 7 colorless mana from three lands. With mana money like that, you can buy your way to victory.
The win conditions of this deck have a beautiful toolkit like nature.
Unlike its bigger brother, Red Green Tron, Mono blue keeps several win conditions handy for different situations. Treasure Mages select the tool you need to win the game you are playing, and Academy Ruins will bring them back as much as you need them.
This is not a deck for those who don't love playing control. Emphasis on the word love. You need to be a control fanatic to appreciate and enjoy the precise construction of this deck. As such, this deck is not for everyone. Even with its relatively low cost, I always recommend players interested in tron proxy a deck first, and practice a lot to see how they like it. Depending on your play style, you'll find it to be either a thing of clockwork beauty, or, or a rusty machine whose gears keep grinding. - Hry
I really love your deck showcases. the music always fits the mood, the card organizations are aesthetic, and I feel somewhat of a vicarious satisfaction by watching, almost as if I had the cards myself.
I'm so happy you're making videos, Prof.
TheMagicManSam was
"The Sad Robot" I almost died laughing. Haha!
With that said, amazing deck tech! :)
though he admitted he should've thought of "stop hitting yourself" with the mindslaver lock
"Oblivion Stone $10.39"
Life is pain for 2016 Magic players.
Sad thing is it will just get worse.
2017...end my suffering
$21.56... /sigh
Cyclonic Rift is better IMO ;)
Hey hey 2018 is a cool year. OStone is five bucks.
Went 3-0 on Tuesday with Mono U Tron in NYC and not the first time I've gone undefeated since finally building the deck a year ago.
Its amazing how the core of this deck is still the same after all these years. I want to thank you because it was THIS video that got me into Modern and Mono U Tron was always a deck I had in my heart's backburner.
Thank you again Professor.
You mention you must have a way to win the game when you have Mindslaver Lock active. However, you don't need a win-condition, that is the win in itself.
Every turn you are drawing the same exact card and your opponent draws a new card. This means that they will deck themselves and you will not. And as you are controlling their turn their is no way they can kill you.
This is considered an infinite combo and a Judge will give you a win if called and you can show how you will repeat each time without your opponent being able to respond.
Matt Burica You are 100% right and I messed up my explanation of that. I meant that you needed to understand that a lock IS the ability to win. I've seen newer players (or folks borrowing a friend's deck) get called on it and not be able to explain it. Basically, I meant what you said. Everyone look over here! Here! (points at Matt). That. ;)
Love this deck! I had never heard it and was really tired of my own modern deck.So the last few weeks I have made my own variations and am happy to say that I will be testing it out tonight at my local magic stores modern tournament. So I just wanted to say thank you for uploading this video and I can't wait to try it.
This was my first modern deck, I was looking to get back in modern and saw this video, having the tron lands and liking controle games this was nice starting point. Still play it but the deck grew in its own shape over the years. For a blue deck it is now a argo u tron; more agressive contole if I can call it that. Thanks for the great reboost.
Prof, thank you so much for this deck tech. This deck called to me from this video on. I have been playing Utron for a year now with no slowing down. Thanks again. UTRON FOR LIFE
Awesome video, I love this deck and I wouldn't have know it existed if you didn't make this video!! It is my second favorite deck now JUST below my Amulet deck.
Thanks again
Tolarian Community College Thank you so much for posting this deck tech. I have since built, modified, and played this deck at my local Magic store. I absolutely love this deck and it fits my play style to a tee. Thank you for all you do for the new MTG players like myself.
Robert Adams My absolute pleasure, and I am so glad you are enjoying the deck!
You said the right word!!! Proxy!!! i do that with lots of decks and also did it with your monoblack control for modern and i loved it.Now i'm ordering the cards :)
Nick Kalfas do you print them on normal paper and then glue it onto caarton or how do you do it?
I LOVE THIS DECK!!! It is now one of my go-tos after a few modifications from this list.
I DID IT, Prof, i got the 12 different Urza lands from Antiquities,then at a vegas mtg event i got them signed. Looked everywhere, learned the printing method and the cardboard texture to seek for the og cards and i finaly got'em.
This video got me into control play, i wasn't good and i was struggling with a heavy combo comunity, thank you very much for your time doc, it's been amazing.
In love with the Tolarian Community College.
This seems like a vastly more interesting take on Tron than the other builds I've seen.
Blue tron fell out of favor for YEARS. Only recently has it gotten attention again.
@@tempestandacomputer6951 what changed? i played this deck since modern was created. Would love to grab it again if its at least tier 3.
@@funkyyy12345 I honestly don't know as im not a pilot of the deck. From what i have seen, tron pay offs have gotten better, sideboard has gotten better, and answers got better with stuff like Warping Wail
@@funkyyy12345 it's always been fringe but pretty good in the hands of a skilled pilot. I've owned the deck for about 5 years now, very skill intensive and certainly not tier 1, but definitely good enough imo for some compeditive fun.
@@edgypancreas1839 Thanks for answer. I really like tron play style. Just tutoring lands and ramping with green seems too linear.
You have made me spent more in a period of just half a year than all my life since i started magic... i love this decks, this ideas and this format; and tought i love your videos i was wondering if you can recommend us a site where we can learn or discuss about this awesome pro decks (theres a lot of sites that shares decks, but how to know which are the ones played and tested by professionals?)
Thank a lot for your efforts for the magic community!
I have been playing this deck for some month and i add 2 dismember it help a lot for example if your opponent win the roll and on turn 2 play a confidant you can kill easily, and i replaced talisman of progress whit talisman of dominance.
I found more solid playing 1 batterskull and 1 wurmcoil.
By the way i like so much playing this deck, and you made a great review of this deck thanks a lot!
hey professor i put this deck together because the deck looked very interesting and im really happy i did i enjoy playing this deck im very appy i saw this video keep up the good work 😊
i built this deck and have so much fun playing it thanks proffesor
Seems like an awesome control deck! I have played against R/G Tron and was blown away by how everything was slowed down. My Burn deck got neutralized in the end. I might built it in time when I get more experienced with Mono-Black control. I really enjoy these deck tech: looking forward for more!
This is gonna be the deck that gets me into modern. I love control and tempo decks and I love nutty combos and this deck has it all and is cheap. Thanks tolarian
Christian Byrd not so cheap anymore his video is 5 years old. Still cheaper than the other Tron variants though
I am so happy you posted this. I was going to do a video request from you for this deck and you beat me to it! I am new to Modern and I have been testing this deck out on Cockatrice with decent success against T1 decks. The pilot of a deck has a lot to do with it of course but I am still happy to see this have some steam against them unlike some T2 decks which sit comfortably there. I also tested 8rack (which I later saw your video on and enjoyed btw) and I had a lot of fun testing online with that but I became somewhat bored of it. Aside from learning the best things to Thoughtseize or IoK the deck sort of plays the same against most other decks and is rather linear in that sense. Mono U Tron feels like it has many intricacies that can give you an advantage once you learn them and make you a much stronger force with the deck. Game to game it is a completely different experience. That is just my opinion though, thanks for the great videos!
Very good video professor. I always loved to play control and this one seens like my entry deck in modern. Very good music btw.
That was brilliant (the deck and the way you presented it) nice job :D
Professor I've been playing this deck on Untap.in for the past week and I am loving it. I'm sad it isn't as budget as it was when this video was made, but it's certainly still budget. I just feel like I gain complete control over my opponent (sometimes, I do!) and when I come online, they go offline for good. 10/10 amazing feel to it.
I just picked up the deck (with new cards of course) for the 3rd time in my magic career. I’ve played it off and on since I seen this video years ago.
Warm coil is getting a reprint in commander 2014! I've wanted one for my commander decks for a while, and this gives me a good opportunity to get one!
"You need to be a control fanatic to..." Control FREAK? C'mon surely you thought of that in the script
Joshimuz The script originally said control freak. I decided to be...diplomatic about it.
japaneli I like aficionado. Very classy.
Tolarian Community College Its funny how people that speak spanish suddenly started to use english words. And then, the same happened with english.
@Prof I've been looking for this deck for a very long time without knowing it. Nailed it perfectly O
I got this deck, tinkered a lot and it balls like hell. It's always a bit of adapting to newer cards and your local meta but for the 150 bucks it's sooo good
Hey thinking of building what changes have you done. Thanks
Professor,this is a very analytical and well presented template! Congratulations on your truly wonderful creation with the really funny introduction! However, watching this video did made me feel compelled to humbly ask you if you could please in the near on more distant future present a blue-white control modern deck. I know that in general control decks are not as successful and widely appearing in modern, but in my humble opinion I believe that magic players should not abandon or dismiss control that easily. Aggro and generally fast or combo decks have made a very strong impact on the format, such as mono red aggro or affinity and splinter twin respectively and now the modern version of abzan has made its appearance, but in the recent years there are few to no true control decks in the first positions of grand prix tournaments.
I love the art on the urzas lands
thank you so much for making such great videos. especially for magic beginners its SUPER useful...!
Nice build up mate. Keep going on
So glad that I opened this video. I didn't realize that Sad Robot was so much. Turns out I have a foil version! Thanks Professor.
Could you please tell me - does the land caddy (pictured in the teach your friends magic video) work with land sleeved with Hyper MATs?
I just realized that I've got pretty much all the cards needed for this deck in my binders. Now I have a BW-Tokens deck AND a mono U Tron deck. Yay :D
“You can buy your way to victory.” Well put, Professor.
*Watches in 2016*
So the difference between Legacy and Modern isn't really the price tag anymore...
The same can be said about almost all constructed formats
ViolentSh4de Pauper will always be there for you, but those Delver of Secrets and Lightning Bolts are gonna run out of supply eventually.
Yeah, I really think wizards should look into reprinting these commonly used cards.
Luca Nocca Modern Masters
ViolentSh4de it's not even close to enough
Hello to any people watching from 2017 and on! Well, first off, this deck got expensive. But still affordable and can be put together with a decent build at around $200-300 and for a "perfect" build (varying by meta) around $400-500. So here I will list a deck tech for the version which I have which is the more expensive one.
1 solemn simulacrum/ Thought-knot seer
1 wurmcoil engine
1 batterskull
2 mindslaver
1 platinum angel
1 sundering titan
1 ugin, the spirit dragon
2 treasure mage
1 snapcaster mage
2 chalice of the void
1 oblivion stone
4 expedition map
4 thirst for knowledge
1 epiphany at the drownyard
4 remand
4 condescend
3 repeal
1 spell burst
1 cyclonic rift
1 academy ruins
1 oboro, palace in the clouds
1 ghost quarter
1 tectonic edge
8 island
4 Urza's mine
4 Urza's tower
4 Urza's power plant
And for the sideboard
2 hurkyl's recall
1 wurmcoil engine
1 negate
2 chalice of the void
1 filigree familiar
2 spreading seas
2 relic of progenitus
2 spatial contortion
2 dismember
That's about it. Please comment suggestions or comments if you want. Always open to them. Thanks, and have a great day
I love this deck! Blue is the best color by far!
Just wondering, what would you suggest for the sideboard? Just in general, not against a specific meta.
i suggest adding perilous vault into the deck as it exiles all nonland permanents, make sure to use as last resort or to stop graveyard incursion or dredge.
Nice reveal! I'm playing this deck but with only 2 Treasure Mages , a Fabricate (another one in the side) and a Snapcaster Mage. You should really take a look at the Fabricate, tutoring a Oblivion Stone is awesome!
Enrique Wicks Yeah, I have not had a lot of chance to play around with fabricate, but plenty of people use it as you have described.
Does Solemn Simulacrum fetch for Urza Lands? I got confused since looking the Urza lands up on Gatherer, they say "Rarity Basic Land". Figured since they say 'Land' instead of 'Basic Land', the Sad Robots are just there to fetch your Islands?
From loving control I have Ugin in my standard deck and I was wondering if it could fit in this deck anywhere?
I'm looking to get into modern and I love control so this should be good for time to get this made
kingeckincow Cheers!
So can I play the Antiquities versions of the Urza Lands in Modern, or does it have to be the 8th/9th Edition or Chronicles versions?
Thanks for another Modern primer. :)
Kelley Willingham My pleasure.
Tolarian Community College I love all of your modern primers, i find no other channel on youtue to have anything of the like, both in looks and your, somehow easy explaning compared to most "straight foreward" deck techs and tutorials!
I built blue tron when this video came out. Still playing the archetype to this day
Me too! Love it.
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This is the Mono Black Control deck I built for the video @ czcams.com/video/zbbgn3BusMc/video.html
This is not a deck for those who don't love playing control. Emphasis on the word love. You need to be a control fanatic to appreciate and enjoy the precise construction of this deck. As such, this deck is not for everyone. Even with its relatively low cost, I always recommend players interested in Tron proxy a deck first, and practice a lot to see how they like it. Depending on your play style, you'll find it to be either a thing of clockwork beauty, or, or a rusty machine whose gears keep grinding.
MonoBlack?
never really been a island type a guy... but this deck looks fun as hell. great vid as always
Yo! PauseDa90s Cheers.
Where can I buy this deck? I have always loved it but have yet to get my hands on one.
So affinity is played A LOT in my local meta game. I do not have the $30 for O-stone, but maybe I could add a few U/R dual lands that I have laying around, and splash red for pyroclasm. Any thoughts on this?
I love those sleeves.
I recommend talisman of dominance of talisman of progress. it makes it easier to run dismember sideboard.
lovely deck, right now running thought knot seer instead of sad bot. hope its pretty good, also spatial contortion very good removal
Thx Prof! Great channel!
Sorry for so many comments and questions, but what would you think about changing if you were to remake this deck today? Would you consider cards like serum visions or gitaxian probes? Maybe snap caster? Please enlighten me.
A suggestion I have to new tron players are to keep in mind the meta that is within your area. For example I face a heavier aggro format in my locals, so I run thought-knot seers to ensure I keep them from swarming with things like pack rat. I also recommend dropping a talisman to 2 (either progress or dominance works in this regard) and instead go with another academy ruins if you run into a lot of landhate. And as the good professor stated this is only a template so experiment with friends or on forums and keep on testing, the beauty of this deck is its versatility. (Or just throw in an ulamog or 2 for funsies)
I have the exact same list card for card on my channel from a year ago. Just the blue black talismen instead and tolaria west instead of oloro
I'm wanting to start playing modern and was thinking about playing one of the TCC modern decks to get acquainted with the format>>>What should I play Red Deck Wins, Soul Sisters, or this Blue Urza Tron?? Which is the strongest or best to play? Can anyone answer this please? or..whats the better to start with in general>>because I hear red can win fast but soul sisters completely shuts down red? Any thoughts?
I dont know if you ever discussed this, but where do you get the blue acrylic stones? Game stores in my country dont sell them and other shops only have those huge ones.
+Daniel Barros
You can just buy some simple cheap bath beads, which are the same thing minus the price tag. Or use dice like a pro.
Would this deck br fun for an artifact lover? Idk im thinking about getting this but ive never really played a control deck, would love to try though!
The hardest part about running Tron, is deciding which Urza Lands to run...The newer ones have nice borders [that match your other Cards], but Chronicles has awesome flavor and Art.. I love Shore and Mountain version... :S
As a question, would it be an idea to splash a bit of white into your landbase, and then use Mana Tithe in some numbers to add a tiny bit more super early counterspell? I know it's only one to a counter unless they pay one, but on turn one or two, that can be a big issue given the situation, and from my understanding of modern from those around me who play it, turn one and two are usually important for a lot of decks. Just curious on your thoughts on it prof.
I love control, thank you!
I run a Tran deck that is mostly the same as this, but with a few addition.my question is, would hangerback walker fit In here, in your opinion or not?
What do you guys think about Ugin over O stone in the wipe slot?
What do you guys think of treasure cruise in this type of deck? Obviously it's amazing in decks such as UR delver and Burn, but those decks fill up the graveyard fast. What about this one?
I was wondering what I should take out if I want to put in another wurmcoil engine?
So Professor, could Mirari be a thing with tron, with how much mana it produces? Could you not make double use of control spells?
Hi all im building this deck but i need some help. I need some good cards against flyers and multiplayer games (kitchen table magic based around modern format). Im thinking to add Darksteel forge + Nevinyrall's disk combo. Any suggestions? =)
This is my favorite video from the channel.
xD
Would scuttling doom engine be a reasonable replacement for the Wurmcoil engines to cut costs even more?
Hi professor a question, in urza tron why not playing a darksteel colossus?
Isn't it worth to play a 11/11 for fastest kill?
While I'm not very familiar with control I build this deck as a way of getting into it and I do not regret it at all :)
I am thinking about building this deck but I feel Reality Shift, Kira Glass-Spinner and Myr Battlesphere should all go in. I also think Serum visions and Trinket Mage may have a place too. Why or why not should I include these cards. I am new to modern and I am considering the making of Blue Tron but I want to make a list on my own as opposed to net decking one. Please help if possible.
From my experience, Trinket Mage and Serum Visions aren't needed, Platinum Angel could be swapped for Myr Battlesphere if you choose, I could find room for Kira, and I'm having a love hate relationship with Reality Shift at the moment.
All these budget decks are awesome! ;) I recently pulled an EXPEDITION scalding tarn and sold it for 350$CDN which of these 5 decks do you recommend that i build? Mono green infect, Mono blue merfolk, mono blue urza tron, Mono white soul sisters or mono red wins? I am trying to make an original deck that none of my 12 year old friends #grade7nerds have. I am a competitive and casual modern/standard player who currently runs red green dragon and blue black control. I would love your opinion professor! THANKS!
Not to necro the video proffessor, but what sleeves are you using? I'm putting together a mean budget U Tron build base don MTG goldfish's trading post tron, whit some new toys form kaladesh (whir of invention is a fair magic card)
how well do you think Prototype Portal would work in this deck? It offers cheap recursion considering you're using Urzatron. My friend usually uses it in his since Mindslaver is his main win con.
Can we go back in time to this modern please?
i love control, this looks like a very fun deck to play... i have only one question though... why is oboro in this decklist?
could you swap O-stone with steel hellkite? i'ts a WoG plugged into a really decent body (with a lame firebreething) and you can tutor it with the mages
Hi Professor, maybe you can make a video about splashing white in Tron? Would be great :-)
does anyone thank blue "tron" can be done in commander??
Can I get help building an edh deck based around W/u, more specifically Bargo, king eternal?
I play this deck myself and I love control and this deck is so strong for such a cheep deck it dose good agents ter 1 deck but like he sead you need to love control to make it work good or it just will be hard and not affective
Professor, is there a budget alternative for oblivion stones?
I have 22 Black boardered Urzatron lands and every other urzatron version ever printed excluding 9th edition andthe foils from 8th and 9th. and I NEED MORE!!
And yet I only run them in my casual Myr deck.. (Casual only because it also likes to run Cloud and Glimmerpost.
Hi, i saw this video some weeks ago and i finished buying it and love it :), i made some changes but, do you think its a good idea to change sundering titan for ugin or karn? Or platinum angel for platinum emperion? Thanks :)
metalg33ksolid platinum angel can be played with only 3 lands and emperion cannot. You could play it but it might not be optimal
RG tron cares about 7. Blue tron is entirely happy with 8 mana win cons, because you do not win without an early island in play. Platinum emperion is also much harder to destroy, but the flying on angel can sometimes end games on its own
Can anyone tell me why Oboro, Palace in the Sky is necessary in this deck? I am new to modern and want to buy this deck, but $7 basically for an island that can be put back into your hand doesn't seem to relevant for the seven dollar price tag. If anyone could explain I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
doesnt get hit by sundering titan
Any chance you could do some videos on a couple of the different combo decks out there? Perhaps Breakfast at Urza's/Urza-tron eggs?* The main deck is not any more pricey than any of the other decks you've done.
*In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not *entirely* unbiased in the suggestion of that particular deck as its my current go-to modern deck. :P
Any chance you'd do a green red tron? I was looking to build one but I wasn't sure
Jeff Muccilli Green Red tron is in the works!
How do you mindslaver lock your opponent? I am not seeing something could someone explain?
11 mana and a blue with academy ruins. Six for mindslaver, 4 to crack mindslaver, take opponents next turn then use 1 a blue and academy ruins to put it on top of your library.
Tolarian I've been playing this deck on Untap.in for the past week and I am loving it. I'm sad it isn't as budget as it was when this video was made, but it's certainly still budget. I just feel like I gain complete control over my opponent (sometimes, I do!) and when I come online, they go offline for good. 10/10 amazing feel to it.
Could you perchance tell me the new cost for the deck instead of 150$?
+Freddy Krueger something more like $350
+BWO Josh Welp, There goes my dream of building a mono blue tron deck online
+Freddy Krueger oh on magic online it's only about 150 tickets still.
+BWO Josh Yay, thank you
Do you have a video that describes what is meant by terms like "tron" and other words that are used in deck names?
Andrew Laverghetta Tron uses the Urza lands when the three are simultaneously in play they make 7 mana. “Tron” refers to the cartoon robot Voltron, where a bunch of smaller robots combined to make Voltron. The deck revolves around a bunch of tutor cards that find the Urza lands so that you can put them together by turn 3-4 and play a really powerful and mana expensive creature early in the game like Karn or Wurmcoil Engine
I highly recomend playing a 1 of urza's factory. It's just a great mana sink and it also won me a lot of games against control (blue white based ones in particular)
I've been thinking about doing this and you gave me a reason to
Do you buy your cards from your game store or online?
I just bought R/G Tron and looking to get the blue pieces as well just to shake it up down fnm.
If I had to cut oblivion stone or palace in the clouds, which one would be a better choice to cut
ninjump9 Palace. Oblivion stone is just so good with the board wipe and is more consistent in most match-ups. Oboro is just an island most of the time.
Hello,
Are you still making more of these videos? Thanks!