Singles

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Sideboard Pieces

(Still being worked)

Counterspells

Negate There’s not much to say about this card, other than you need to understand that even though it is a hard counter, 2 mana for a conditional hard counter in pioneer is something you need to think about carefully.

There’s some matchups where it’s inclusion is a no brainer (like UW control), since it has a lot of targets you want to shutdown. The issue comes with matches where the density of non creature spells isn’t that high, and you still want to counter them, if possible.

If you are against a Collected Company you probably want to counter it, but do you really want to bring a Negate into a deck that’s almost entirely composed of creatures? How often will it get stuck in your hand? How often will you leave 2 mana up all the time so that your Negate is online?

Mystical Dispute
Disdainful Stroke
Invasive Surgery
Narset’s Reversal
Aether Gust
Change the Equation

Removal

Rending Volley
Fry
Tears of Valakut
Beacon Bolt
Fires of Victory
Abrade
Brotherhood’s End
Anger of the Gods
Sweltering Suns
Burn Down the House
Prismari Command

Creatures

Young Pyromancer
Crackling Drake
Brazen Borrower
Third Path Iconoclast
Tishana’s Tidebinder
Eternal Scourge

Planeswalkers

Ashiok, Dream Render
Narset, Parter of Veils
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
Saheeli Sublime Artificer
Ral, Izzet Viceroy
Jaya, Fiery Negotiator

Others

Unlicensed Hearse
Proft’s Eidetic Memory
Blue Sun’s Twilight
Alpine Moon
Tablet of the Guilds