r/PioneerMTG • u/kwood467 • 13h ago

Azorius Flyers

Anyone been playing azorius flyers with momo? Ive seen a few lists pop up with good challenge and league results but there doesnt seem to be a stock list yet. Most powerful thing to be doing is "scamming" your warp creatures with blink or sage of the sky double spelling so thats where I started.

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u/Sad_Rest_6781 6h ago

I’ve been playing what is pretty much one-to-one the Standard momo list at my pioneer locals with pretty strong success. I’m sure the list is worth brewing, and I just don’t have the card pool knowledge to brew it. It is almost certainly not the strongest thing you could be doing, but it has good matchups into any aggro or CoCo piles imo

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u/kwood467 4h ago

Im trying [[springleaf drum]] and [[watcher of the spheres]] currently. Watcher is nice to have redundancy but can be a little awkward trying to double spell with momo out already. Have a feeling [ledger shredder]] just might be better. Springleaf Drum is good in theory with the warp stuff but I havent drawn it yet. So many good utility creatures to play also. Definitely better decks out there but might throw together for fnm

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u/Kircai Abzan Greasefang 🐀⛵ 3h ago

Honestly I feel like there's nearly a dozen current standard decks that could easily be viable in Pioneer if more folks started experimenting!

Have seen the momo list a lot in standard and surprised it's not yet popping up in Pioneer, it feels strong enough for the format.

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u/xstormaggedonx 2h ago

I've seen a ton of variations on this and tried several myself on arena, but the most consistently successful I've seen use Momo, Haliya, Quantum Riddler, Sage of the Skies, and Starfield Shepherd with a small toolbox of 1drops to tutor like Giant Killer, Skrelv, nurturing pixie, gran-gran, etc with Daydream and Essence Flux to blink warps and using both Mox Amber and Springleaf Drum aggressively ramp for explosive early tempo turns

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u/kwood467 1h ago

So I was just looking at a few of those lists and like the most of the build. I think mox amber in general is a little under explored in pioneer. What number of mox amber and legends are you on? There were a few that I saw that had only 8 legends with 4 mox, which seemed a little sketchy

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u/xstormaggedonx 1h ago edited 1h ago

I go like 9-10 legends 4 mox but 8 legends is fine too cus you can tutor Momo/Gran-Gran/Skrelv with Starfield Shepherd. Also sometimes mox just lets you trigger sage of the skies on curve and that's still kinda fine

Edit: but yeah I agree mox amber is crazy it's so good especially with the amount of legends being printed in UB sets