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Rakdos Midrange - Budget Pioneer by Duy Vu, Swish GamingHello Everyone! Welcome to another article here on All Star Sports! This is Duy and today we are getting diving into my current favorite format Pioneer. Starting any new format can be daunting as Magic the Gathering is an expensive game. Luckily, Pioneer isn’t the worst format to dive into. Let’s take a look at the metagame itself and the average cost of the decks. We are going to tackle the most popular decks today and I will keep working …

Moving Up from Local Play:Path to Competitive Magic: the Gathering Part 1by Duy VuHello everyone, my name is Duy Vu from Swish Gaming. I have been playing Magic: The Gathering (MtG) since Tenth Edition in 2007, starting with kitchen table magic. Talking to other people and how they got started, it is not an uncommon start with a very casual approach and group. Eventually, I would move on from there to where many players start their journey with a more structured design playing in Friday Night Ma …

Hello readers of All Star Gaming’s blog! I am Cris Smith, member of Team Swish. I am also a manager at Amazon and have started learning how to conduct interviews for new members of my team. Through this process I have realized a lot of valuable things, some of which I will be sharing with you all today! This article will go through the correlations of attributes that magic grinders and employees have, specifically those that major companies are looking for! Overall, five qualities I would say ar …

WHY WASTE NOT IS NOT A WASTE OF TIMEHello again everyone! Today, I am going to discuss one of my current favorite decks in Pioneer. I believe is a very underrated and underappreciated deck. Mono Black Waste Not, or as I have been calling it as of late, Mono Black Beseech Not. As you can imagine already, I have been playing Beseech the Mirror in the deck and think that it was a massive addition. The ability to be a committed discard deck while also having a tutor package has felt very strong to m …

Hello everyone! Today I want to share a pioneer list I've been working on and playing a lot the past few days and have been having an absolute blast with Rakdos Soul Cauldron.4 Agatha's Soul Cauldron2 Anje, Maid of Dishonor4 Ayara's Oathsworn3 Blackcleave Cliffs3 Blightstep Pathway4 Blood Crypt4 Bloodtithe Harvester2 Bonecrusher Giant1 Castle Locthwain1 Den of the Bugbear4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker4 Fatal Push3 Haunted Ridge2 Hive of the Eye Tyrant1 Immersturm Predator2 Mountain1 Pack Rat1 Sok …