My Super X-Girlfriend

Pioneer* WB (Orzhov)

pookypuppy6

Creature (28)

• 2x Cruel Celebrant
• 3x Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 3x Endless One
• 4x Grim Haruspex
• 4x Hangarback Walker
• 4x Midnight Reaper
• 4x Stonecoil Serpent
• 4x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (22)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 4x Caves of Koilos
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 4x Plains
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Forever Young
• 3x Patch Up

Instant (3)

• 3x Fatal Push

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Sideboard

Sorcery (10)

• 3x Duress
• 2x Dusk / Dawn
• 3x Fragmentize
• 2x Languish

Creature (5)

• 2x Phyrexian Revoker
• 3x Remorseful Cleric

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 2x Graf Reaver
• 2x Skyclave Cleric  ^Flip

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Ritual of Soot

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This is my first and current Pioneer deck, a White/Black aristocrats deck with a combo finish. SaffronOlive played a similar concept back in Eldraine standard, though this has been narrowed by cutting out green for colour consistency.

The deck is built around Forever Young and abusing X-costed creatures like Stonecoil Serpent. The general plan is to play lots of "when things die" cards. Card draw from Grim Haruspex and Midnight Reaper rolls the deck forward, while Zulaport Cutthroat and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim more actively win you the game. The X-costed cards you drop for 0 mana and have them die as 0/0s, ideally replacing themselves and draining the opponent. With two draw engines the deck can snowball so you play multiple X-dudes in sequence. Forever Young can then finish a game by stacking the top of your deck with all your dead X-dudes on top. Patch Up is a mid-game backup, able to ressurect at best a combo piece and two X-dudes at once for easy death triggers.

STRENGTHS - The deck is very anti-removal - things dying usually grants you small benefits on top of eating a removal spell. - I think this deck could do okay against aggro given the lifegain cards and potential for recovering dead creatures with Patch Up. X-costed creatures can be played as regular dudes too, so Stonecoil Serpent and Hangarback Walker can blunt attacks reasonably effectively.

WEAKNESSES - The deck is very A+B+C+D - i.e: it needs to see four different pieces and have them all played to make the combo work. Lack of a proactive card draw package makes this a pretty variable deck dependent on aggressive mulligans. - Pretty disruptable post-sideboard. Graveyard hate is pretty solid against this deck. Plus, creature-based combo decks are easier for most decks to interact with. - Interaction is sparse. Fatal Push is cute in this deck though as you can drop an X-dude and have that death satisfy the Revolt clause to kill bigger things.

Sideboard is very much a work-in-progress until I learn more about Pioneer and my local meta. Remorseful Cleric is graveyard hate that sacs itself to synergize with the deck - I am considering Graf Reaver in a similar vein to deal with any Narset, Parter of Veils that may appear.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 9 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.63
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C