Combos are an often inescapable part of older formats, even though they have been largely stamped out in the Pioneer format. Inverter of Truth, Underworld Breach and many more cards ended up banned by Wizards of the Coast to help keep the format in line with their vision. However, despite the company’s best effort to keep combo decks down, they …
It has been just more than a month since our last tier list for Pioneer. A lot has changed in that time, back when people scoffed at Arclight remaining a top deck after Expressive Iteration’s ban and when mono-green was a force in the format that few could answer. Multiple new decks and innovations on old decks have developed, and …
Did you play Modern around the release of Modern Horizons 2 but have since taken a break? If so, good news — today we are going over how the meta game and classic modern decks have evolved in the last few months so you’re not surprised when going to your Regional Championship Qualifier. If you have kept up to date, …
Expressive Iteration is in every top deck in every format it’s legal in. If you go and check the data, Standard, Modern and Legacy are all run by the best card draw spell printed since Treasure Cruise. Pioneer, a format where Treasure Cruise is legal, recently banned Expressive Iteration. So, how is this little uncommon that didn’t even get noticed …
As RCQ Season gets into full swing, Mason takes a look at common mistakes Pioneer players make, and what adjustments to make to fix them. Pioneer is Magic: the Gathering’s rising star these days. You may even be trying to learn the format right now. However, Pioneer is also a new frontier, with players flailing through unexplored territory before the …
Sometimes a deck will fall out of favor, only for the deck to come right back into dominance later. Mason looks at three such decks in Modern! Modern is a format that is constantly evolving and changing. While some things like Izzet Murktide stay in the spotlight, some decks have moments when they are in the spotlight then fade away …
The first RCQ season is coming up, and Mason is here to give some advice on how to prepare for the mental game that is tournament Magic. Regional Championship Qualifiers start this weekend for Atlanta. Being the first big paper thing back that people can qualify for from Wizards, thousands of Magic players will start going to their local LGS …
Pioneer got a bit of a shakeup recently with some bans, so Mason pauses to take a look at the metagame ahead of RCQ Season. It’s been a couple of weeks since the Pioneer banning of both Winota and Expressive Iteration. We have had some results and the players have rushed to figure out the format with the RCQ season …
Mason takes a look at the state of the Modern format, and asks a tricky question – does Modern need a ban, and if so, what? Modern is at an interesting point right now. We are one year out from the release of Modern Horizons 2 and the format looks nothing like it did before the release or even after …
Pioneer has changed forever. Both Winota, Joiner of Forces and Expressive Iteration were banned this week. Over the last year, the format has completely and totally warped around these two cards. Winota has been the default uninteractive deck that also had an amazing back up plan. Blue-red piles have been the ultimate forms of value with out having to go …
