This helps enable cards like Dreadhorde Arcanist, Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger, and Lurrus of the Dream Den to take over games. Rakdos Arcanist is a midrange deck that utilizes Stitcher’s Supplier to fill-out the graveyard with cards. CheeseyPuffey is known to prefer the UW version of the deck, which trades the raw power of Collected Company for a more stable, painless manabase and Lofty Denial for additional disruption. The green splash serves the deck through Collected Company, which can help refill the board, threaten lethal, or find a tool to disrupt their opponent. Typically, Spirits can aggressively attack the opponent with the help of lords, while disrupting their opponent with more creatures like Mausoleum Wanderer, Spell Queller, and Rattlechains. Speaking of beating down with creatures and interaction…īant Spirits aims to win through their tribe of Spirit creatures, which boasts amazing cards like Spell Queller and Supreme Phantom. They can also use Shark Typhoon, either cycled or hardcast, to produce massive sharks. Although most lists prefer Extinction Event as their board wipe of choice, Shadows’ Verdict also shows up from time to time, due to being so brutal against Lurrus of the Dream Den decks.Įventually, the Dimir Control deck wins in the late game by amassing huge amounts of card advantage using the DigHulk engine, using Torrential Gearhulk to recast Dig Through Time for free. Given there isn’t an abysmally dominant archetype (based on their numbers), this AFR Pioneer League is looking healthy.Ī recurring nightmare to all Magic players: a blue-based control deck.ĭimir Control’s plans are to efficiently control their opponent’s gameplan through their interaction, which is in the form of counterspells, removal, and board wipes. Here’s a bar graph of the AFR Pioneer League: His contribution helped me finish this article. Special thank you to the Tournament Organizer, Csquared08 he created a quick metagame overview, listing out the deck archetypes and their frequencies. Last season was won by Bant Spirits, but we’ll have to see if it will gain a second League win with AFR. These are Niv on Bant Spirits, Trinket on Stompy, JB_Alters on Dimir Control, and CheeseyPuffey on UW Spirits. The four players that made top 8 last season that are again participating for the AFR season are playing their same decks. Having no deck (except debatably Spirits) showing up twice in the top 8 is great to see. What was UOL Pioneer Metagame like with Strixhaven involved?ġst Place: Bant Spirits by Niv (Check out his winner’s interview)ģrd-4th Place: Dimir Control by JB_Altersĥth-8th: Enigmatic Fires by Dank_confidantĥth-8th: UW Spirits by CheeseyPuffey (His UW Spirits primer is available here)Īll STX Season Pioneer League decklists can be viewed here. In spite of this, Strixhaven largely had a minor impact on Pioneer beyond helping enable UR Phoenix.
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Magma Opus briefly saw play in Torrential Gearhulk decks to cast for free from the graveyard. Elite Spellbinder sees some play as a delay tactic in White based decks. In Pioneer, it provides a large quantity of card advantage for only two mana and extra spells for Arclight Phoenix. Strixhaven brought new tools to Magic’s non-rotating formats, such as Expressive Iteration which has taken multiple formats by storm.
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