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Brewing Pioneer: Aetherworks Marvel

Hello, and welcome to the first part in a series of making pioneer decks! With so many options to talk about, I want to start with one of my personal favorites, Aetherworks Marvel .  So the way Aetherworks Marvel works is that you get a lot of energy in the early game and then use Aetherworks Marvel to look at the top six cards of your deck, if one of them is a big creature or amazing planeswalker, you are in luck and can play it for free. If it is not, then you can still play one of the cards for free, but you need to get more energy to use Aetherworks Marvel again. Keep getting more energy and using Aetherworks Marvel until you get a big creature to defeat your opponent with and win the game. Now I'm not talking about any huge creature, I'm talking about the biggest creatures, the Eldrazi Titans. Emrakul, Ulamog, and Kozilek. Now each one of these eldrazi has had two versions. The original cards in the first Zendikar block are not legal in Pioneer because they are older...

Pioneer

Pioneer, the new MTG format, was just announced by Wizards of the Coast. It has there full tournament support, and they have announced future tournaments for the format. But what is Pioneer? Pioneer is a non-rotating format, and the card pool is from Return to Ravnica and up. So that means you will be able to play cards from the Theros block, Tarkir block, Kaladesh block, and many more. A lot have been comparing it to frontier, and expecting it to fail, but there is a difference. Frontier had a smaller card pool and not a lot support from Wizards of the Coast. Pioneer is a bigger card pool, support from Wizards of the Coast, and even has competitive tournaments coming up. Pioneer has so much possibility, looking at all the decks from past standards, it's hard to decide what deck to play! Before I go any further, I do want to say that there is a ban list, but it only includes the five fetch lands from Khans of Tarkir. Which is fine with me, but at the same time there is so many...