There's also a playset of Growth Spiral - and as we saw with Historic, Growth Spiral plus Wilderness Reclamation is a good recipe for a banning. The list that Bielzito took to a 5-0 finish in a Pioneer League on MTGO on uses a playset of Wilderness Reclamation to help set up powerful spells like Expansion // Explosion, Shark Typhoon, and of course features the much-maligned Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath. Now, it's also worth considering the fact that there is a good potential for this deck to get hit with some bannings once paper play resumes. So far it has only been printed in Ravnica Allegiance and Commander 2020 and both copies are sitting in the two to three dollar range - which is impressive for an uncommon these days.

Now, I know I rarely talk about uncommons, but when one is the backbone of a deck like Wilderness Reclamation is, I think it's worth taking a look at. At four mana, it never really took hold in Modern or Legacy, but the Temur Rec list that it has found its home in with Pioneer is a force to be reckoned with. The mana advantage these decks create can be absurd, which is why the card is banned in Standard and Historic. Wilderness ReclamationĪnyone who watched my Twitch stream while Wilderness Reclamation was still a thing is probably familiar with how salty Rec decks made me when I had to play against them. I also don't think it's a bad idea to be picking up the related rares like the goblins or the Marauders, which are all powerful cards that should see some growth when paper play resumes. As always, I lean towards trying to secure the non-foil extended art version of the card (I believe competitive players who want to 'bling' out their decks without risking game losses due to curling foils will gravitate towards these options) and if you can get them closer to the five or six dollar price point I think they are definitely worth snapping up. With regular printings of Winota going for around three dollars and the extended art selling in the six to seven dollar range, I think there's a lot of room for growth with the card and now is a great time to pick up your copies. If you need to find any of your awesome creatures, you can employ Eldritch Evolution to sac one of your mana dorks and find something better. The deck looks to ramp with early non-human creatures such as Elvish Mystic, Llanowar Elves, and Lotus Cobra into threats that also make non-human creatures like Goblin Rabblemaster and Legion Warboss to finally set up an epic A-Winota, Joiner of Forces into Angrath's Marauders. Winota is the backbone of a sweet Naya Midrange deck in Pioneer and after looking at the list that EmErgy took to a 5-0 finish in a Pioneer League on MTGO on I immediately ordered the singles I was missing to have the deck in paper. Let's go ahead and start with A-Winota, Joiner of Forces. I also made a video companion to this article, which you can watch below! With that in mind, I started sifting through Pioneer league results, and today we're going to look at five cards that are worth speculating on. However, with Pioneer still developing on MTGO and the likelihood that it will one day be a supported format on Magic Arena as well in sanctioned paper play (post-pandemic), I think it would be foolish to keep ignoring the format and its financial implications. I started building a few Pioneer decks right as the Pandemic was starting (late to the Pioneer game, I know) and then promptly forgot the format existed because I wasn't able to go to any of the burgeoning Pioneer events in my hometown. Then, after reading a tweet from Filipa Carola on Twitter, I remembered that Pioneer was still a format and that Winota was still legal there! She hardly puts up numbers in Standard anymore, is banned in Historic, and hasn't made much of a splash in Modern or Legacy. While I can see where they're coming from, I guess (dealing with her and Agent of Treachery at the same time was a bit much, I guess), I couldn't imagine why they would think Winota was still a problem. In the aftermath of the release, I found myself reading Reddit comments on the video (I know, bad idea) along the lines of, 'I didn't watch the video BUT.' where people went on to complain about how broken Winota is as a card. The other day I released a video essay on my YouTube channel discussing all of the reasons I think A-Winota, Joiner of Forces is an amazing Magic card.

Mtg pioneer oops all spells