Episode 85: Pioneer Bans & Modern Prowess Stans

This week we break down the 4 new bans in Pioneer, and talk about what this means for the format! In the Dive Down we go over the many flavors of Prowess in Modern: Red, Izzet, Gruul, Rakdos - how to choose?!

The Break Down: A Lovely Surprise Banning!

The Dive Down: Not Everyone's Tempo

The Dive Down, cont: We Could Bolt or Not Bolt Forever

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Timestamps:

2:48 - Housekeeping

6:11 - The Break Down begins: SURPRISE BANS!

26:35 - Takes on the bans

32:39 - The Dive Down begins: The many flavors of Prowess

36:35 - A Red Prowess Primer 

52:19 - Hey.... what's tempo?

57:35 - The decks we covered

1:04:06 - Izzet Prowess

1:09:45 - A strategic digression - the tempo of Prowess

1:14:55 - Back to Izzet Prowess

1:17:14 - Gruul Prowess

1:25:13 - Rakdos Prowess

1:33:40 - Burn vs. Prowess

1:39:08 - Why cast the "bad" spells of Prowess?

1:44:57 - Closing out

Links from this week's episode:

The August 8, 2020 B&R: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/august-8-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement

Izzet Prowess: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3234953#paper

Gruul Prowess: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3234957#paper

Rakdos Prowess: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3234951#paper

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