Is Trinity Green a viable deck choice in Pre-Modern Magic?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Fyndhorn Elves

4 Basking Rootwalla

4 Arrogant Wurm

4 Wild Mongrel

4 Werebear

4 Uktabi Orangutan

4 Masticore

4 Blastoderm

4 Deepwood Wolverine

4 Rishadan Port

4 Treetop Village

4 Mishra's Factory

12 Forest

sb:

4 elvish lyrist

4 Tormod's Crypt

4 Rancor

3 Gaeas Blessing

[AI Opinion]

It’s fun but not really tier‑1 in Premodern. Trinity Green used to prey on control, but the format now has super‑tuned Goblins, Sly, Landstill, The Rock, and combo that outclass this list.

Your core creatures are fine, but you lack real card advantage and removal. Masticore helps, yet burn and bigger midrange just outpace you. Play it casually or tuned for a specific meta, not as a top competitive choice. 🎴

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Here's why the bot is wrong. I've thought about this list, and there's a better way to play Trinity that DOES hose Dreadnought, Tog, Landstill, etc. This deck can struggle against Replenish, but I have tech for that too.

4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Deepwood Wolverine
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 River Boa
4 Albino Troll
4 Uktabi Orangutan
4 Blastoderm
4 Naturalize

4 Treetop Village
4 Rishadan Ports
4 Mishra's Factory
12 Forest

SB:
4 Icy Manipulator (Vs Dreadnought or any blue deck)
4 Powder Kegs (vs Dreadnought or any token or weenie deck)
4 Tranquility (Vs Replenish)
3 Tormod's Crypt (vs Rock and other recursion decks)

This gives 8 answers to Dreadnought main and 16 total answers in SB for games 2 and 3. That means i have more answers than the Dreadnought player has threats and counters, and I still have all my ultra-cheap creatures.

So the bot is wrong. I just had a bad list, because I haven't played this format in a long time, since it was the old Standard anyway.

Rishadan Port and Icy Manipulator hose Dreadnought because it runs so low of a land count and keeps bouncing its own lands to cast Gush, Daze, and Foil. A turn 3 Icy Manipulator also hoses the Dreadnought itself, by keeping it tapped down until Uktabi Orangutan or the other answers are drawn out.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Okay, I found an even stronger way to buildd "Trinity Green" which hoses everything I'm aware of in the format. I'll explain the changes below.

4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Ring of Gix
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 River Boa
4 Albino Troll
4 Uktabi Orangutan
4 Blastoderm
4 Naturalize
2 Dust Bowl
4 Rishadan Port
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Treetop Village
4 Hickory Woodlot
8 Forest

SB
3 Tormod's Crypt
4 Elvish Lyrist
4 Icy Manipulator
4 Powder Kegs

Explanation:
This allows turn 2 Ring of Gix mainboard instead of turn 3 Icy Mainboard.
This allows plenty hate for Dreadnought, Rock, Landstill, psychatog, and Deranged Hermit decks.
This allows mana screwing red burn decks until they can't develop their board, and then I just win with better creatures.
This allows tapping out Royal Assassin vs Mono Black Control and then beating them with superior man-lands.

White Weenie is no threat, and pretty much any blue/x deck is screwed due to mana acceleration, mana denial, and Islandwalking River Boas.

I added 2 Dust Bowl to further hose non-basic lands opponents are playing.