Episode 210: Pro Tour Philly Preview, ft. d00mwake

This week Dave and Shane invite Devon O'Donnell (aka d00mwake) over to help us prepare for the return of the Pro Tour! We go deep on Pioneer as we take a look at the recent meta and last weekend's MTGO Challenges (or whatever they're called), go over where established decks are picking up new tech from ONE, and lastly run through a bunch of sleeper decks and their potential for a PT break through — one deck d00mwake likes may even surprise you. We likely don't talk about Atraxa enough. But we do talk about the angel... some? Tune in for all this and to see what each of us chose as a top 4 for the tournament.

• As Much Pioneer as You Could Ever Want

• Atraxa Unifies the Rogue Meta

• One Deck That Oozes Potential

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Timestamps:

5:00 - Housekeeping

7:57 - The Pioneer Pro Tour

15:10 - The current Pioneer meta

27:45 - What can happen at the Pioneer PT?

30:02 - The Saturday Pioneer Challenge

43:48 - Saturday's cool decks

57:09 - Sunday's Pioneer Showcase Challenge

1:10:05 - Sunday's cool decks

1:20:28 - What do we know about Pioneer?

1:24:58 - Some sleeper decks of the new Pioneer

1:42:35 - Calling our top 4 decks of the Pro Tour

1:44:50 - Where to find d00mwake

Links from this week's episode:

Devon's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/d00mwake

Frank Karsten's Metagame Mentor: https://magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-10-surprising-pioneer-decks-that-can-win-pro-tour-phyrexia

2/11 Pioneer Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/pioneer-challenge-2023-02-11#paper

2/12 Pioneer Showcase: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/pioneer-showcase-challenge-2023-02-12#paper

d00mwake's Video on New ONE Decks for Pioneer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qLghY2tsI4

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