Today we are going to explore some interesting deck archetypes in the Pioneer format and luckily we found one, courtesy of the tournament results from the TM League posted at the MTG Top 8 website. The deck is called Blue White Artifacts Aggro which reminded me of the Scissors deck back in its Standard days.

The key concept of this deck is to combine aggressive play with the use of artifacts. The deck focuses on quickly developing a strong board presence by deploying low-cost artifacts like Gingerbrute and Ornithopter.

These artifacts can then be enchanted or buffed using cards like All That Glitters and Ensoul Artifact, making them powerful threats. This is looking to be an interesting take on the deck in the Pioneer format.

Check out the full details and video discussion of the Blue-White Artifacts Aggro below. Also don’t forget to subscribe to my Youtube channel for more of these Pioneer deck tech videos.

Wizards have recently announced a new format named Pioneer and the hype from the players’ response is somewhat very positive. Most are happy that they will be playing their Standard-rotated cards that are not popular in the Modern format. I included, as I am happy to unbox our old cards in my Magic: the Gathering card pool again and it was a good thing that we kept most of our cards. I have also recently joined the Pioneer PH Facebook group to discuss ideas, mostly decklists and other brews of the new format.

As for the deck brews, a lot are being published online in sites like Facebook groups and Reddit threads for the people to experiment on or playtest in their respective playgroups. MTG Archive PH FB group is my recent source locally as they provide efficient and reliable sources of decklists.

My card pool decided to start building the Pioneer decks today at our HQ and I might drop by later to check on what decks they have come up with. I’d guess Mono-Red is auto included in the builds as we have like a lot of the components in the storage boxes there. It might be a one-color Prowess build or a splash of Green for Atarka’s Command, we shall see.

I will post a second part once we have completed building the decks and maybe discuss the expected metagame and categorize them by aggro, combo, and control.

That is a wrap for now. Until the next blog post.