Brewer's Minute: Pioneer - Beating the Banned in Standard Cards

by SaffronOlive // Oct 25, 2019

Pioneer is here, and along with it a bunch of potentially broken cards and synergies. How can we build our decks to compete with (and hopefully beat) cards that were banned (or should have been) in Standard like Aetherworks Marvel, Felidar Guardian, Rally the Ancestors and Collected Company? That's the topic of this week's Brewer's Minute!

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