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Hello everyone Kyle G here again to talk pioneer and today I will be discussing one of my favorite pet decks in the format, Hulk Creativity. This deck has not been seen in the meta for quite a bit of time and with the rise of other decks being able to fight this strategy, the deck just slowly faded into the background. But with the printing of new cards in the past couple months this deck has gotten a few tools to work with that I'm excited to talk about!Now let's talk about the main strategy of …

Hello everyone, my name is Duy Vu from Swish Gaming. Welcome back to my series on Moving Up from Local Play. If you didn’t get a chance to read the first part, you can find it here - https://allstarsportsgr.com/mtg-blog/moving-up-from-local-play/In the first article, I talked about technical foundation, judges, metagame, and sideboard strategy. As I mentioned in the prior article, today we are going to tackle the topic of creating a playtest group. It lets us move from being a Johnny or Timmy in …

When I wrote my set review for Murders at Karlov Manor, I wrote extensively about how much I liked Vein Ripper. I tried to temper my expectations somewhat due to my own well-documented vampire bias, but it turns out I was right to be excited about Vein Ripper. Rakdos Vampires, running a full playset of Vein Ripper, took down the PT illustrating many of the points I made as to why the card is so powerful. Vein Ripper presents an extremely fast clock, and the only way to kill it is to two-for-one …

WASTING NO(T) TIME FINDING A GOOD MIDRANGE DECK IN PIONEERHello again everyone! After a brutally embarrassing showing in pioneer at the PT I decided it was time to put Rakdos midrange down for a while. I decided after the PT that I really want to focus on playing more MTGO events this season, after making top 4 in a standard showcase Challenge last year. This past weekend there was a Pioneer Showcase challenge and I was kind of lost as to what to play. I thought the Nassif UB control list from t …

Hi everyone! I’m Cris Smith, a member of Team Swish, and a competitive Magic Grinder. I have multiple NRG series top 8’s and a win qualifying for NRG Champs.Throughout this article I will be speaking in broad terms but the examples will be Pioneer-related due to the recent PT. The reason I think this article is important and relevant is the PT results! Seth Manfield registered Rakdos Vampires, which was considered a Rogue/jank deck, and the other finalist finished a strong run using Boros Heroi …