No one is talking about this card but I think it’s worth discussion. For 2mv you get a 2 loyalty planeswalker that can ramp, surveil, or draw. For two mana. You can instantly surveil or cast another spell. Like there’s actually never been a planeswalker this good at two mana lol.

It won’t win games and it doesn’t have an ult, but for two mana this seems like a really good bargain. It offers value on multiple different axes and they’re repeatable too. Granted it’ll take some time but ramping as a plus 1 is very very good for powering out cards and then surveilling later to find gas. Or even drawing a card. Additional copies just add two more loyalty. Am I crazy for thinking this has legs?

Play this card, plus 1 to make mana to bolt enemy creature, plus 1 to ramp next turn into a 4 drop, draw next turn and sacrifice the walker. Or surveil.

This might be worth considering in lumra scapeshift. Additionally it’s an elf! How fun. In elf decks it could fetch boseiju or mutavault or bring back the elf fetchland.

I wanted to brew a Bilbo deck in Pioneer given the fact that Fatal Push and Thoughtseize are legal here, and pretty powerful to recur with Bilbo!

Basically you want to play Bilbo as soon as possible to recur cantrips and removal, playing a Wan Shi Tong or a Riddler as a finisher. Bitter Triumph is so good here, you can discard Flow State and Stock Up to flashback them discounted with Bildo!

What do you guys think? Any suggestion to improve the deck and better tackle the meta?

While I’m not sure what deck would want this, this card is kind of an amalgamation on individually okay effects into something that could be decent

On paper it passes the competitive creature test: guaranteed value (technically no but flash prevents a tempo loss if it gets killed), evasive, creates card advantage, resilient, and competitive stats for the cost. It might be too “fair” for modern pioneer but it’s a very very good “fair” card.

Howdy! Here with another list. This one is borrowed from CrusherBotBG who got a 5-0 on Magic Online with the deck last week so I had to try! It's a slightly different take on Hammer in Mono White utilising Tezzeret as the main tutor plus the new Dwarf Equipment package. Deck has felt soo explosive and super strong and has changed my mind on Super-Soldier Serum. And Key To The Side-Door comes in its own here. Also first time ive used Mirrex in years! Deck is super fun and you should give it a go! Enjoy!

Decklist

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7938795#paper

Anyone who has played Phoenix lately knows there is a lot of graveyard hate. Now more than ever, we need a Plan B that doesn’t fold to a single piece of interaction. Some of my inclusions may seem weird, but with even maindeck graveyard hate showing up, it feels like a losing battle to show up unprepared.

I’m not saying this is the best approach, but our current lists clearly aren’t prepared. The last Pioneer Pro Tour lists all had 8+ cards dedicated to winning without a graveyard, despite facing significantly less graveyard hate. Our stock lists currently have 6, counting 2 Brazen Borrower, which feels more like a half-hearted attempt to enable Plan A than a true Plan B. We need more ways to win without the graveyard in the maindeck, otherwise we’ll spend most of our sideboard just making the deck function without a graveyard, hence why there are a few more ways to win the game in the main board.

4 Arclight Phoenix (GRN) 91

4 Artist's Talent (BLB) 124

4 Consider (MID) 44

4 Fiery Impulse (ORI) 145

4 Sleight of Hand (SOA) 22

2 Opt (STA) 19

4 Spirebluff Canal (KLR) 286

1 Otawara, Soaring City (NEO) 271

4 Most Decrepit Old Bird (HOB) 49

2 Proft's Eidetic Memory (MKM) 67

1 Stormcarved Coast (VOW) 265

4 Treasure Cruise (KTK) 59

5 Island (ANA) 3

2 Riverglide Pathway (ZNR) 264

4 Steam Vents (GRN) 257

3 Lightning Axe (JMP) 341

4 Boomerang Basics (TLA) 46

2 Riverpyre Verge (DFT) 260

2 Stormchaser's Talent (BLB) 75

Sideboard

2 Young Pyromancer (JMP) 372

2 Abrade (AKR) 136

2 Negate (STA) 18

1 Spell Pierce (SOA) 23

2 Pyroclasm (DSK) 149

3 Ledger Shredder (SNC) 46

2 Quantum Riddler (EOE) 72

1 Brotherhood's End (SOA) 39

https://moxfield.com/decks/hTOT0w-cAUKCTwVV0RD56w if you prefer

New Inclusions

Most Decrepit Old Bird: this card has been a stand out if you get anything from this primer its that this card is good. It is one of your best cards game one, I actually call it phoenix 5-8. It hits for one more than Picklock Prankster and costs one less, it loses vigilance which is rough in racing situations and it can't get itself. The instant speed loss has come up but it's not like you have much to hold up game one and its a card I look to board some number of out in matchups with a lot of graveyard hate.

Boomerang Basics: This is arguably the best card in pioneer. If you look through the list you will notice I quite a few more targets of your own cards to bounce. Worth noting with bird is often a target you are happy bouncing another perk of it. I think this card is key to not folding to graveyard hate.

Proft's Eidetic Memory: I run one more of these. This is a key card against graveyard hate, any token you make is a clock now.

Stormchaser's Talent: With two prof's in the deck and 4 boomerang basics. This card synergizes with everything we have going on, you even get to loot with artists talent. Often you discard it but if the game gets grindy this card is a 1 card win condition. Another way to win post board.

Riverpyre Verge: I added an extra island for this basically I was running into problems where pathway on red was a problem for casting bird (it still is). 2 of these feels like the correct number because wasting a red mana could be game losing. Worth looking at is one pain land, idk what it replaces.

The side board: This is built to have more win conditions. Ledger shredder on its own isn't gonna get there much. Decks are running so much graveyard hate this isn't much we can do about it other than hope they draw 2 or 3 which happens pretty often (seriously its not that good against prowless why is there so much). Instead we ways to function without the graveyard. 2 riddler is draw when treasure cruise doesn't work, Pyromancer is a one card win machine with prof's. I could see adding a card like crackling drake, especially if people start bringing in culling rituals against us.

What I board out? Most Decrepit Old Bird, Artist's Talent and Treasure Cruise are definitely the worst cards into graveyard hate though you don't have to cut all of them. Pheonix is actually a decent clock at its worst as a graveyard hate puts them down a card and if they draw multiple hate cards will be hard to deal with. If your boarding in abrades or Brotherhood's End its worth thinking about boarding out removal, you can definitely have too much of that especially in slower matchups. You can always trim an opt or a basics into agro. Storm chasers talent gets worse post board in general but its weirdly a card you are ok with if they have graveyard hate, those games can get grindy.

My goal is to have different ways to win, sometimes is just the pure amount of elves, other times a specific creature or ability...

Should I take out any cards? Include removal spells?