Episode 232: Over the Top with The One Ring

This week the boyz go over the top with the biggest decks that have gotten buffs from the LOTR set. Control and big mana strategies have been strengthened by The One Ring, so we take a trio of the best of them out for a test drive. That's right, it's time for Shane to break out his (nearly) all Russian deck, Mono-Green Tron. But before we get to that Stan professes his love for Mono-Black Coffers and Dave takes a spin with the Twitter hype deck of the week — UB Ring Control by Talisker. • Mono-Black Coffers • Dimir Control (from TaliskerMTGO) • Mono-Green Tron Check out Heavy Play to improve your gameplay and game day. Awesome deck boxes, playmats and more at heavyplay.com — and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2023" for 10% off your first order. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Show the world that you're a proud citizen of The Dive Down Nation with some merch from the store: https://www.thedivedown.com/store Check out our sponsor Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use coupon code THEDIVEDOWNM23 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Get 10% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use coupon code THEDIVEDOWN2023 And now receive 8% off your order of paper cards from Nerd Rage Gaming with code "DIVE8" at https://www.nerdragegaming.com/ Timestamps: 2:05 - Heavy Play! 5:35 - Housekeeping 8:36 - Stan talks Mono-Black Coffers 14:38 - How Coffers works 21:30 - Playing Coffers 29:58 - Coffers in the Modern meta 34:31 - Dave talks Dimir Control 44:29 - Playing Dimir Control 51:12 - Stan has a box 54:40 - Shane talks Green Tron 1:01:45 - How Tron is different and better 1:15:45 - So let's talk about The One Ring 1:25:00 - Wrapping up Links from this week's episode: Mono-Black Coffers by DreamsOfAshiok: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5740288#paper UB Ring Control by Talisker: https://twitter.com/taliskermtgo/status/1679559848994676751?s=46 Mono-Green Tron by Giona Cai: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/modern-mono-green-tron#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown