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Tron Basic Land Performance Analysis

1 requestsStarted 10/7/2025, 2:37:44 PM
can you look at the performance of Tron depending on its the presence of each basic land. (Basic lands are island, swamp, forest, mountain, plains.) Winrate and #matches, #entries for each tron version

I'll analyze Tron's performance based on basic land presence. Let me start by getting the Tron archetype and basic land card IDs, then query the performance data.

Now let me search for each basic land to get their card IDs:

Now let me query the database to analyze Tron's performance based on basic land presence. I'll check each basic land and calculate winrate and match statistics for the last 60 days:

🛠️QueryBasic Land Impact on Deck Performance

Now let me get some sources to back up this analysis:

Tron Performance by Basic Land Presence (Last 60 Days)

Here's the breakdown of Tron's performance based on which basic lands are included:

Forest 🌲

  • Without Forest: 241 entries, 1,075 matches, 53.0% winrate
  • With Forest: 82 entries, 370 matches, 54.3% winrate
  • Forest versions show slightly better performance (+1.3%)

Swamp ⚫

  • Without Swamp: 127 entries, 575 matches, 54.1% winrate
  • With Swamp: 196 entries, 870 matches, 52.9% winrate
  • Non-Swamp versions perform marginally better (+1.2%)

Island 🔵

  • Without Island: 305 entries, 1,354 matches, 53.7% winrate
  • With Island: 18 entries, 91 matches, 48.4% winrate
  • Island versions underperform significantly (-5.3%)

Mountain ⛰️ & Plains ⚪

  • Without Mountain/Plains: 323 entries, 1,445 matches, 53.4% winrate
  • With Mountain/Plains: 0 entries (no Tron decks ran these basics)

Key Insights:

  • Forest is the most common basic in Tron (~25% adoption) and shows modest performance gains
  • Swamp appears in ~61% of Tron decks, likely for sideboard cards or Urborg synergies
  • Island is rare (~6% adoption) and correlates with worse performance
  • Mountain and Plains see virtually no play in Tron builds

Sources
Data from 104 tournaments: 83.7% MTGO, 16.3% Melee. Recent examples: 2nd Chance PTQ, Modern Challenge 32