I don’t have much Pioneer experience, so my first thoughts were ’Why no Lightning Bolt or Blood Moon?’ Then I read up a bit on what’s legal in the format, and realized you’ve basically found way to run them regardless with Wizard's Lightning (and Alpine Moon in the sideboard). Great stuff here, +1

Thanks Balaam__; I've been on a RDW kick recently and after brewing in Modern I thought I'd try my hand at seeing how it would translate into Pioneer... I was really on the fence about Wizard's Lightning at first but playtesting it really feels good so far!

Yeah it looks very achievable to cast them as faux-bolts each game. You have 12 wizards to trigger them, and more than enough stuff to do if you have to wait before drawing one.

Hey, I saw your deck a little while ago and then your post on enchantment removal. I had a deck that started like this {technically I got a Red Burn pre con and went from there) and later added white for the enchantment removal. You can find my link here: Naya Burn Pioneer List. It was a private deck so the description is really just notes to myself.

Basically it's a straight up burn list, whatever can deal the most face damage is in. I took out all the wizards because I didn't like having to have a creature out for Wizard's Lightning and splashed white for main deck Boros Charm and Green for Atarka's Command (mainly the deal 3 and buff creatures giving a double buff to prowess creatures but having main deck "Can't Gain Life" is nice too).

I like your deck though! Bonecrusher is a great card I just opted for Eidolon of the Great Revel for more face burn but I could see Slaying Fire dealing 4 easy in your list, mine perhaps not as much especially at 3 mana.

Main deck I reduced it to 2 mana and have the Light Up the Stage to keep going through the deck. Sideboard I have some 3 drops like Chandra which is amazing as you know and I put in Squee, Dubious Monarch for a more removal heavy deck where I can't just board out all my creatures. Phoenix Chick is decent, it could be upgraded but the flying is surprisingly still good evasion to get in that 1 damage for spectacle.

I'd be interested in your thoughts as it seems your sideboard covers all bases and the list seems well built. After a good deal of play testing I found that you can in fact out race some decks and just straight up not run certain removals. I think Greesefang is the quickest graveyard deck and still by T3 we can deal a good amount of face damage with still another turn after their deck goes off.