Season 17, Episode 2: Brewer’s Guide to Phyrexia, Part 2 (Pioneer)

The Great Work continues. With Phyrexia: All Will Be One fully previewed, we turned loose our resident brew master to analyze the best new offerings for Pioneer. (This time around, we are diving our set review by format — if you’d like to hear our analysis of the Modern cards, check out the previous episode of Faithless Brewing).

In the brewer’s paradise that is Pioneer, the powerful new offerings from Phyrexia are glistening with oil-slick possibilities. More than 60 cards made the cut in this massive episode, which still only scratches the surface of what All Will Be One has to offer. There’s something for everyone in this set, and we can’t wait to grease the wheels of the brewing machine and get to work.

Happy brewing,

— cavedan

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Timestamps

[1:56] Housekeeping

[3:19] Allied Fastlands

[7:47] The Seedcore

[10:50] Mirrex

[13:11] The Mycosynth Gardens

[14:58] Vindictive Flamestoker

[17:45] Venerated Rotpriest

[21:13] Skrelv, Defector Mite

[24:51] Black Sun’s Twilight

[27:35] Tyvar’s Stand

[30:27] Evolving Adaptive

[32:12] Green Sun’s Twilight

[35:17] Rebel Salvo

[37:59] Gleeful Demolition

[39:48] Cacophony Scamp

[43:04] Annihilating Glare

[44:07] Vat of Rebirth

[45:38] Crawling Chorus

[46:38] Swooping Lookout

[49:23] Experimental Augury

[51:42] Voidwing Hybrid

[52:35] Venser, Corpse Puppet

[55:20] Hexgold Halberd

[57:37] Cankerbloom

[58:54] Soulless Jailer

[1:00:36] Skrelv’s Hive

[1:02:35] Melira, the Living Cure

[1:05:08] The Filigree Sylex

[1:07:23] Armored Scrapgorger

[1:09:42] Kemba, Kha Enduring

[1:12:54] Ossification

[1:15:16] Sheoldred’s Edict

[1:17:01] Anoint with Affliction

[1:19:20] Tablet of Compleation

[1:22:11] Vraan, Execution Thane

[1:24:13] Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler

[1:26:34] Tamiyo’s Logbook

[1:27:37] Bloated Contaminator

[1:31:29] Blade of Shared Souls

[1:33:09] Glissa Sunslayer

[1:36:04] Urabrask’s Forge

[1:38:01] Mirran Safehouse

[1:39:50] Malcator, Purity Overseer

[1:42:23] Sword of Forge and Frontier

[1:45:10] Migloz, Maze-crusher

[1:46:36] Unctus, Grand Metatect

[1:48:19] Lukka, Bound to Ruin

[1:53:18] Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

[1:54:34] Mondrak, Glory Dominus

[1:55:35] Evolved Spinoderm

[1:57:09] Archfiend of the Dross

[1:59:07] Mindsplice Apparatus

[2:02:25] Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

[2:04:44] Argentum Masticore

[2:06:48] Thrun, Breaker of Silence

[2:08:40] The Eterrnal Wanderer

[2:10:21] Capricious Hellraiser

[2:14:31] Nissa, Ascended Animist

[2:16:39] Atraxa, Grand Unifier

[2:19:51] Kaya, Intanigible Slayer

[2:21:44] Tyrannax Rex

[2:24:24] Concluding thoughts