


Despite constant complaints and a dwindling number of players (with Magic Online events sometimes refusing to fire and long wait times in the queues), Wizards refused to take action for months.until this week. If you're going to die to a combo on Turn 4, you may as well just play Modern, where at least you have tons of janky, fun, fringe decks and cards to work with. With combo taking up most of the meta, my interest in the format quickly waned. Then, Theros: Beyond Death came along and unleashed three dominant combo decks into the format: Inverter, Lotus Breach, and Heliod / Ballista Mono-White Devotion.

The metagame was new and surprisingly fair. Last fall, when the format was first created, Pioneer was my number one favorite format to play in all of Magic. The story of Pioneer has been a strange one. Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing.
