Hello and welcome back everyone! Hope you all had a good week and that you have a better weekend. Today we are playing Pioneer with a green black deck featuring Seasons Past. If you enjoy playing grindy decks like Jund, then you should enjoy this deck as well. It's a deck that tried to grind the opponent out with removal and hand disruption all backed up by Seasons Past. You can close out the game with Nissa, Ugin, creatures, or Masterminding for Emrakul, the Promised End.

Here's the list

Time Stamps:

Match 1 - 00:02:53

Match 2 - 00:45:22

Match 3 - 01:01:12

Match 4 - 01:39:15

Match 5 - 02:01:38

Golgari Past | Pioneer | Ali Aintrazi

• Creatures (6)
• 1 Murderous Rider
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 2 Courser of Kruphix
• 2 Nissa, Vastwood Seer

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen

• Instants (10)
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Ultimate Price
• 1 Vraska's Contempt
• 2 Abrupt Decay
• 4 Fatal Push

• Sorceries (17)
• 1 Crux of Fate
• 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Seasons Past
• 2 Nissa's Renewal
• 2 Ritual of Soot
• 2 Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 3 Dark Petition
• 4 Thoughtseize

• Lands (25)
• 4 Forest
• 6 Swamp
• 2 Field of Ruin
• 3 Fabled Passage
• 3 Hissing Quagmire
• 3 Temple of Malady
• 4 Overgrown Tomb

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
• 3 Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1 Lost Legacy
• 1 Virulent Plague
• 1 Seasons Past
• 1 Unravel the Aether
• 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Cry of the Carnarium
• 1 Pulse of Murasa
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1 Ashiok, Dream Render

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Overall the deck is straightforward, but you'll have to think carefully when you start tutoring with Dark Petition / Mastermind's Acquisition. Try to leverage your spells correctly, sometimes you don't want to Ultimate Price that Young Pyromancer but you should Abrupt Decay it instead and save your Ultimate Price for something bigger like a Bedlam Reveler. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon closes out a ton of games once you've started stabilizing. Games Ugin can't close out well, like against control decks, Emrakul, the Promised End can.

I like this deck, but I don't think we can't have a great list until the metagame settles down. We are a deck full of answers and we want to have the right ones for the metagame, we just need time for it to develop.

As always thanks for reading and I hope you have wonderful weekend!

Ali Aintrazi

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