To grasp the latest Pioneer developments, I analyzed over 750 successful decklists from competitive events over the past month. If you aspire to make it to the Pro Tour, then now is the perfect time to dive into the format. Through August 20, due to the new format matching policy, in-store RCQs are required to be either Pioneer or Limited, and they will qualify for a Pioneer Regional Championship later in the year. Pioneer is a nonrotating format based on expansion sets and core sets from Return to Ravnica forward, with the most notable cards on the ban list being the fetch lands.

Pioneer has not been static, so there's plenty to cover! The Pioneer Metagame The main innovations that I will highlight are Polukranos Reborn in Mono-Green Devotion, Faerie Mastermind in Dimir Rogues, the emergence of new Indomitable Creativity and Transmogrify decks, a novel combo deck with Rona, Herald of Invasion, Saiba Cryptomancer in Bant Auras, and the first impact of March of the Machine: The Aftermath. So today, I will provide a Pioneer metagame snapshot, and I will take a look at the biggest Pioneer innovations since the release of March of the Machine. While the best players in the world were focused on Pro Tour March of the Machine earlier this month, the current cycle of Regional Championship Qualifiers (RCQs) kept going. Hello and welcome back to Metagame Mentor, your weekly guide to the top decks and latest Constructed developments on the path to the Pro Tour.

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