So today we are going over some of the decks that we didnt last time and the big innovations in those decks over the last two weeks
Rarity in Action The strategic value of rarity changes dramatically depending on the format
Izzet Phoenix 4 Fiery Impulse 4 Riverglide Pathway 4 Spirebluff Canal 4 Steam Vents 4 Treasure Cruise 4 Picklock Prankster 4 Arclight Phoenix 4 Consider 4 Ledger Shredder 4 Sleight of Hand 4 Opt 4 Lightning Axe 3 Island 2 Hall of Storm Giants 2 Spell Pierce 1 Otawara, Soaring City 1 Stormcarved Coast 1 Galvanic Iteration 1 Temporal Trespass 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory 3 Mystical Dispute 2 Brotherhood's End 2 Crackling Drake 2 Young Pyromancer 2 Thing in the Ice 1 Ashiok, Dream Render 1 Negate 1 Brazen Borrower 1 Aether Gust Izzet Phoenix, with a 14.8% share of the winner's metagame, is the obvious deck to beat in Pioneer after the bans
It reanimates creatures from your graveyard
If Akainu lands in that tradition, he becomes the card the rest of the OP-16 meta has to plan around, which is exactly why his supporting Navy cast and the counter package matter so much: they exist to guarantee he reaches the board
Best for: Tracking raw single values from modern English sets
