More than 1,700 players are registered for this weekend’s Pioneer Regional Championship at SCG CON Washington DC. Check out the preliminary numbers for what the Pioneer metagame breakdown looks like below:
Player count and deck numbers will be finalized after Round 1 of the Regional Championship Saturday morning, but this gives us a pretty good look of the Pioneer metagame following the release of Duskmourn: House of Horror. In fairness to the competitors in the tournament, full decklists for the popular and breakout decks will be posted in Saturday’s update to this article.
Notably, decks with many iterations like Jund Sacrifice, Rakdos Sacrifice, and Golgari Sacrifice are lumped together rather than separated into smaller tiers. The same goes for Azorius Spirits/Bant Spirits, the many variations of Aura-based decks, and the surprise Landfall deck utilizing Lotus Cobra, Nissa, Resurgent Animist, Omnath, Locus of Creation, Aftermath Analyst, and Lumra, Bellow of the Woods.
Check back Saturday morning for a finalized metagame breakdown update and catch all the action live on the Star City Games Twitch channel along with the SCG Tournament Coverage YouTube page starting at 10 AM ET.
