All Pioneer Articles

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

DarthJacen ranks the plethora of new planeswalkers in All Will Be One, with a focus on Pioneer and Explorer.

Darthjacen covers one of his favorite decks and all of its many tools. Company bolsters Thalia and Reflector Mage in Bant Humans!

In this new series, DarthJacen goes over some tips and tricks on things that your brew may be missing to take it to the next level.

PVDDR takes us through some next-level mindset needed to succeed at the top levels, in how and when to play around the cards you’re afraid of.

DarthJacen covers the best Phoenix-Alternative, the graveyard resilient Izzet Drakes!

Brush up on your Pioneer mulligan game with IslandGoSAMe!

DarthJacen breaks down the more recent 80-card version of Azorius Control, which is better tuned to counter the current meta than its 60-card counterpart.

PVDDR breaks down Pioneer and Explorer decks that would be significantly improved by the printing of the Allied Fast Lands in the new set.

Darren covers a hot new community brew featuring some of the least appreciated standard allstars of all time.

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

PVDDR breaks down Mono-White Humans – Pioneer’s premier aggro deck – and shares his sideboard guide.

Todd Anderson takes us through the ins and outs of Pioneer’s current reigning champ, Rakdos Midrange.

DarthJacen covers Pioneer’s best way to build your own threat.

SCG Champ Vinny V takes us through some of the best ways to tackle our Rakdos problem in Pioneer right now!

rose-emoji ranks the Pioneer-playable alternate art cards set to release with Dominaria Remastered on January 13.

Arinceo goes into all the ways we can play our favorite card game

ServoToken breaks down Pioneer’s premier life gain deck that raises your life total without raising the price.

PVDDR joins us again, but this time to go over the ins and outs of Sideboarding in Pioneer

PVDDR comes to us to share the tricks and tips to returning to paper magic

Alex Covers the basics of brewing with today’s focus on brewing for a single card

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

In PVDDR’s debut article for PlayingPioneer, he goes over some competitive tips, Pioneer’s top decks and shares his pick for the best deck in the format right now.

Brush up on your Pioneer mulligan game with IslandGoSAMe!

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events

DarthJacen breaks down Pioneer’s longest-standing combo menace in Lotus Field/Hidden Strings Combo.

Iglooboi explores some decks from standards’ past to see how they might stack up in todays Pioneer Meta game.

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events

ServoToken breaks down a new graveyard brew in this month’s Budget article!

DarthJacen breaks down Pioneer’s premier midrange deck, which has answers for every permanent and threats to boot. Sideboard guide inside!

Bradcifer explorers what could be possible with Hardened Scales – a seemingly forgotten Pioneer archetype.

Darthjacen takes a look at Pioneer’s premier life-gain deck and learns just how easy it is to get to 27 life

Briger joins us this week for his series, Explosive Impacts ,and shares the top cards from each set in M14 and Theros Block

Michael Letsch shares his Dreamhack Atlanta Regional Championship Top 8 deck and goes over his playtesting and decision-making.

Arinceo breaks down this weekend’s first regional championships to provide a glimpse into the future of the format

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent huge paper events

Darren covers the weekend’s festivities at RC Atlanta!

Ruckman breaks down the last month of the Pioneer meta, just in time for the Dreamhack Atlanta Regional Championships.

Alex digs into Brothers’ War’s new mechanic: Powerstone Tokens, providing five decklists that take advantage of the easy-to-create artifacts.

Ruckman and Servotoken take a look at their top picks from the new set!

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events including some new faces

Vinny Vitanza breaks down the Gruul Vehicles deck he piloted to win SCG Philly this weekend, and writes about his experience and matchups.

Friends of PlayingPioneer, the Crew3 Podcast, is hosting an Extra Life charity stream all day today, culminating in some good ol’ fashioned MTG wrestling.

DarthJacen covers some of Karn’s new Toys from the Brother’s War!

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

Darthjacen takes a look at Pioneer’s premire tempo deck and how it fits into the format as a whole

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events including some new faces

Cris (IglooBoi) takes a spin at making FNMs and casual events more fun in this new series!

Darthjacen takes a look at how to pilot Mono Red through today’s meta-game like a pro

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events including some new faces

Darthjacen breaks down one of pioneer’s premier tribal decks in Golgari Elves

IslandGoSAMe uses real-life examples in this edition of Keep or Mulligan, and breaks down the outcomes of the decisions.

Alex goes into great detail about the changes Grixis control went through with the last set release.

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events

Skura dived deep into the meta game and even more into the top 8

Darthjacen dives right into Mono-White Midrange and sees how this latest Karn pile takes down some of the top decks of Pioneer

ServoToken breaks down an even more budget-friendly version of Atarka Red – which might just be the best budget-adjacent deck in the format as it is.

Bailey (BCS8995) reveals his own sideboard guide and provides a in-depth overview of Gruul Vehicles

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events

Join Iglooboi in their first of a new article series, as they imagine what Rakdos Arcanist might look like in the current meta

IslandGoSAMe thinks you suck at sideboarding, and uses some existing English words and some new ones to try to help you improve your games two and three

Join Darthjacen as he breaks down some of the meta shifts that took place before this week’s uneventful banned and restricted announcement

Bailey covers the four Pioneer-viable Greasefang variants before sharing insight on his own build.

DarthJacen finishes breaking down the last two of the four upcoming Pioneer Challenger Decks and analyzes their competitive viablility out of the box.

ServoToken takes a look at upgrading this winter’s coming Challenger Decks on a $50 budget!

Arinceo compares and contrasts the weeks leading up to Winota, Joiner of Force’s ban and the most recent weeks of Pioneer competitive play in this edition of his data-driven series.

DarthJacen breaks down two of the four upcoming Pioneer Challenger Decks and analyzes their competitive viablility out of the box.

Briger, a humble researcher, takes a look at the history of Vampires in the Pioneer format.

Join Darthjacen for a breakdown of this week’s top Pioneer decks and the meta shifts that were seen in recent events

Ruckman tackles September’s twists and turns in this month’s Monthly Meta Snapshot

DarthJacen breaks down the latest iteration of Indomitable Creativity deck, featuring Worldspine Wurm as the big payoff.

Bradcifer goes over what can be done with the *other* lords from Dominaria United in Pioneer.

WOTC finally dropped the deck lists for us and Ruckman is hear to tell you our first thoughts on each.

Brush up on your Pioneer mulligan game with IslandGoSAMe!

Join Darthjacen as he breaks down the best tempo deck in Pioneer: Bant Spirits. Can this tempo deck take down the likes of Rakdos Midrange and Karn Devotion or will it simply ghost the metagame and fall back into the middle tiers?

DarthJacen breaks down some of the meta shifts that took place this week – notably, the inclusion of an S+ Tier, which we have never used before, for Rakdos Midrange

DarthJacen breaks down two versions of Abzan Greasefang, which has somewhat recently overtaken all other variants of the archetype to represent the strongest home for Parhelion II in Pioneer.

Anthony Dolce looks back on the entire evolution of Green Devotion in Pioneer, from its humble beginnings as a stompy deck to its current state of looping an infinite combo.

DarthJacen breaks down Pioneer’s oldest way to invalidate combat and count up to 20, one at a time.

ServoToken goes all-in this week discussing Elves in Pioneer and the different archetypes that are emerging with some new tools from Dominaria United.

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

DarthJacen goes over this week’s Pioneer tier list and offers insights to each deck’s viability and tier list movements this week.

Hello! It is with great joy and humility that I find myself in the position to write to you all today. As you may have seen elsewhere already, there are some big changes happening within our sphere here, and i’m looking forward to the opportunity to give you all the run down. Here at Playing…

DarthJacen breaks down Pioneer’s new Izzet deck, full of cheap threats, interaction and a stream of card filtering and cantrips.

Briger joins us this week for his new series, Explosive Impacts and shares the top three cards from each set in the Ravnica Block

In September’s edition of “Play Dumb Decks, Win Dumb Prizes”, Ricky introduces the deck that just may lose you all your friends in Turbo-Fog.

IslandGoSAMe shows what new tribal decks might just have their time in the limelight in the Post-DMU Pioneer

In the first of PlayingPioneer’s weekly Meta Guides (which will replace our weekly tier list breakdowns), DarthJacen goes over this week’s Pioneer tier list and offers insights to each deck’s viability and tier list movements this week.

DarthJacen breaks down Pioneer’s long-standing toolbox deck that has been a scourge on the format’s midrange players from the beginning.

ServoToken goes over a truly legendary Strategy but for the common player

Ruckman covers the changes over the last month of Tier Lists in August’s Meta Snapshot.

Michael Schwander imagines a new version of our known Omnath piles using some of the new cards from DMU.

DarthJacen dives into the newest iteration of Jund Food – a variant closer to Rakdos Sacrifice than ever and seems to have staying power.

Arinceo breaks down the week of Pioneer data to provide a glimpse into the future of the format.

Kevin Finkle explores the Phrexian Defilers from Dominaria United! Getting whacky with some brews, he shows off the weirdness they bring to the table, showcasing new infinite combos in every color!

DarthJacen breaks down one of the best aggro decks in Pioneer and provides a matchup and sideboard guide based on the current meta.

An explanation of this week’s Pioneer tier list movements and placements.

Darthjacen explains where some of of the New cards from DMU might find homes.