Upgrading your sideboard is a critical part of optimizing your Magic: The Gathering (MTG) deck. With tournament data providing invaluable insights into the evolving metagame, savvy players can use it to make informed decisions about their sideboard strategy. This is very crucial, especially during tournament gameplay as sideboarded games often decide the outcome of the match.
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Grafdigger’s Cage is a versatile, powerful sideboard card that has found a solid place in the Pioneer format of Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Its ability to shut down key strategies makes it an essential tool for many decks. This article explores why Grafdigger’s Cage is such a valuable sideboard option in the Pioneer format.
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The sideboard is an essential part of competitive Magic: the Gathering decks, allowing you to adjust your deck to better handle specific matchups, whether Standard, Pioneer, Modern, etc. In any specific deck archetype in the format, I’ll give you some general advice on sideboarding in Pioneer. I would love to have all kinds of good cards for all the matchups, but the 13-card slot would not suffice.
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The Magic: the Gathering Pioneer Selesnya Angels deck goes beyond the benefits and strategy of the tribal-themed archetype. It also explores the card advantage of casting Collected Company and Kayla’s Reconstruction to instantly recover the board after a board sweep. It is then with the sideboard card choices that need to align with this.
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