Episode 45: Pioneer Days: Fording Rivers, Dying of Dysentery

We talk the SCG Regionals, the decks that got away, and, oh yeah, an ENTIRELY NEW ETERNAL FORMAT - Pioneer!

The Break Down: SCG Regionals

The Dive Down: Welcome to Pioneer Town

The Wind Down: White Whales

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Timestamps:

2:22 - Housekeeping

3:58 - The Break Down begins - SCG Regionals top 8 data

9:53 - 9 takeaways from the SCG Regional results

33:37 - The Dive Down begins - Introducing Pioneer!

41:55 - The Pioneer ban list philosophy

48:57 - What Pioneer means for The Dive Down

56:22 - What are we excited to play?

1:06:47 - What are we nervous about?

1:12:00 - The potential impact of Pioneer on Modern

1:17:00 - What does this mean for Modern players?

1:29:29 - Our final takes on Pioneer

1:32:16 - The Wind Down - The decks that got away

Links from this week's episode:

A bunch of SCG Regionals lists: http://www.starcitygames.com/decks/results/start_date/2019-10-19/end_date/2019-10-19

WOTC's Pioneer announcement: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-pioneer-format-2019-10-21

Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?

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