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There's a couple of cards from Strixhaven that look potentially good in Azorius Control that we haven't really tried in that shell yet. Emeritus of Ideation provides a punchy difficult to interact with finisher that also has Ancestral Recall stapled to it, while Petrified Hamlet is a nice little scalpel card against annoying lands. Both of these potentially have a place in everyone's favourite archetype so let's take them for a spin.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
04:36 - Match One (Golgari Midrange)
18:50 - Match Two (Azorius Control)
44:30 - Match Three (Selesnya Scales)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/pFF8TAos1Ei-sVfl0vN3AA

I love a bit of Doom Foretold and today we're combining it with an Airbending strategy using Appa, Steadfast Guardian. Because we have some many durdly little value enchantments, the idea of airbending them all and then replaying them for even more value is very tempting. Even when we're not Dooming therefore we can still fall back on a more traditional Blink/Bounce strategy that slowly grinds the opponent out.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
04:10 - Match One (Golgari Midrange)
21:05 - Match Two (Five Colour Elementals)
40:38 - Match Three (Boros Convoke)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/hGrIHFsqeki21dsohNZFWQ

Gruul isn't a colour combination that gets a huge amount of love in Pioneer so today we're taking a Red-Green Midrange deck out for a spin. This combines some of the best midrange Green cards like Badgermole Cub and Ouroboroid with great Red cards like Fable. It's a bit of a soup but it's nice to see a few cards that haven't seen play for a while spread their wings a bit. And let's see if super duper Ouroboroid variant Germination Practicum can do anything for us as well.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
03:57 - Match One (Lumra Scapeshift)
25:58 - Match Two (Abzan Enchantments)
37:09 - Match Three (Izzet Phoenix)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/1LdMULnb80WfWW3NLxc0Pg

Smashing a couple of different decks we've played together here with a whole load of lifegain synergies. Tragedy Feaster gives us a good incentive to not only play Unholy Annex (as if we needed one) but also a bunch of the best lifelink creatures in the format like Gifted Aetherborn and Deep Cavern Bat. Incremental lifegain enabling our big beefy creatures to stick around and do their thing seems like a nice little deck idea.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
04:10 - Match One (Izzet Phoenix)
26:29 - Match Two (Enigmatic Overlords)
44:31 - Match Three (Rakdos Leyline)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/SE4faJCwHES0WqVKN6VELg

I feel like Merfolk as a deck holds a special place in a lot of content creators' hearts, I've always loved it playing it. So today we're using the new Merfolk from Strixhaven, Harmonized Trio, to see if Brainstorm can be good in a format without fetchlands. Needing to tap three creatures to prepare it needs very doable in a deck that can go as wide as this one and it adds a nice little synergy with Deeproot Pilgrimage, letting you have another free activation of that without needing to attack.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
04:01 - Match One (Niv To Light)
21:28 - Match Two (Dimir Mill)
37:42 - Match Three (Rakdos Discard)
44:51 - Match Four (Golgari Midrange)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/4CXLDuFt10a5Kee7bt8_wA

This is a spicy one today, with the advent of new card Mana Drain at home, Mana Sculpt. This card provides the tempting prospect of generating lots and lots of free mana to cast big splashy spells like Emeria's Call, Sea Gate Restoration, and Sphinx's Revelation. It needs a bit of set up so we're including a set of Wizards inside an Azorius Control style shell and seeing what shenanigans we can get up to.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
04:02 - Match One (Selesnya Kithkin)
15:33 - Match Two (Golgari Midrange)
30:34 - Match Three (Mono Green Elves)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/kUXsPcg4BUilscZFEeYlEA

I've been away for a couple of weeks and I've come back to a very different format to the one we left behind. Cori-Steel Cutter is gone! While I think on the whole that's probably a good thing for the overall health of the format, it'll be interesting to see what happens to the decks that lent on its power. Today we're trying a post-Cutter Izzet Prowess list, seeing if Slickshot Show Off can provide some of that big punchy damage that the deck needs to close out the games.

00:00 - Intro & Deck Tech
03:15 - Match One (Golgari Midrange)
21:22 - Match Two (Boros Burn)
34:02 - Match Three (Golgari Food)

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/ZOfJQPyHRUa3LmCU46MX0g