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Tron Basic Land Matchup Performance Breakdown

1 requestsStarted 10/7/2025, 2:30:12 PM
can you look at the performance of Tron depending on its the presence of basic lands. Like tron with a forest vs tron with a swamp vs tron with islands. (One or multiple of basics, does not matter.) Since september 1st

I'll analyze Tron's performance based on basic land presence since September 1st. Let me start by getting the Tron archetype overview and then examine how different basic lands correlate with performance.

Now let me search for the basic lands and examine Tron's performance with different basic land combinations:

Now let me query the database to analyze Tron's performance based on basic land presence since September 1st:

🛠️QueryBasic Land Performance in Tournament Entries

Let me also check for combinations of basic lands to see if there are patterns:

🛠️QueryPerformance Impact of Basic Land Combinations

Now let me get sources for this analysis:

Tron Basic Land Performance Analysis (September 1-29, 2025)

Based on tournament data from 214 Tron entries since September 1st, here's how basic land choices correlate with performance:

Performance by Basic Land Type:

  • Swamp Tron: 52.1% winrate (156 entries) - Best performing variant
  • No Basics: 57.7% winrate (15 entries) - Highest winrate but small sample
  • Island Tron: 48.8% winrate (17 entries)
  • Forest Tron: 47.6% winrate (26 entries) - Lowest performing

Key Findings:

  1. Swamp is Dominant: 73% of Tron players (156/214) run Swamp as their only basic land, achieving a solid 52.1% winrate. This likely enables black sideboard cards and removal.

  2. No Basics Performs Best: The 15 entries running zero basics achieved 57.7% winrate, though this small sample may not be statistically significant.

  3. Forest/Island Underperform: Both green and blue basic variants showed below-average performance (47.6% and 48.8% respectively).

  4. No Multi-Basic Combinations: Interestingly, no Tron decks in this period ran multiple different basic land types - players stick to single basic colors or go basicless.

The data suggests Swamp-based Tron builds are currently the most successful configuration, likely due to access to powerful black sideboard cards like Thoughtseize, while maintaining reasonable consistency.

Sources: Data from 48 tournaments (86% MTGO, 14% Melee) including Modern Challenge and 2nd Chance PTQ.