If they ban lantern then they should also ban summer bloom since it doesn’t hurt any deck except amulet bloom

The good news about Lantern winning is just this, that it will force people that were skimping on artifact hate they “should” have been playing to finally do so. Affinity always gets by because of the thinking that “other people will board for it”.

Good catch, better than I thought 🙂 Might try Blood Moon in the matchup and see how it goes, thinking Academy Ruins was still online made me feel like BM was a poor plan at best.

I have yet to play against lantern control as Tron, but it’s something I would like to try. O-Stone probably ends the game immediately and Ugin/Karn can do their thing to either bolt them to death, provided they haven’t found pithing needle. That’s where we run into trouble. Lantern usually works with perfect information. Tron’s redundancy could be what hurts it most – O-Stone, Karn, and Ugin are the best cards, so shutting off 1-2 of them is BIG game.

Also (this is a little thing), Tron is more interactive than others give credit. We lack the finesse of counterspells and the efficiency of lightning bolt, so the flex spots are tailored to the metagame (usually 4-6 cards). I have a fourth clasm, 2 MD spellskites, the fourth O-Stone, and a MD Sundering Titan to compensate for the high amount of Burn, Twin, and Grixis in my area. MD relic seems to be the way to go at bigger events. Post-board games often see us keeping hands that are slow with key interaction (1 Tron piece, two groves, karn, star, stirrings, and a rending volley is an autokeep versus twin). It’s a unique ebb and flow, though we don’t get as much an advantage from being an unknown entity, which can make a difference since it needs to be approached a certain way.

Very nice written article, mister, and thanks for it. Surely be looking forward all these hate cards to bring in if Lantern somehow manages to pop up in our local store.