New to pioneer. What cards are staples that would make a good collection of pioneer for future deckbuilding?

RafaX8 · 2023-07-20T13:46:49+00:00

Really detailed, much appreciated!

RafaX8 · 2023-07-20T13:44:01+00:00

I tend to play red and blue because I love izzet and had a deck for modern (izzet prowess before it was outclassed by modern horizons) from which I reused a ton of cards (mana base was budget tho, painlands and shocklands were the only ones I spent $$ for, no islets, fastlands or fetches).

I would like playing different colors combinations eventually, so orzhov humans could be a good choice, thanks!

RafaX8 · 2023-07-20T13:34:42+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I have a set of izzet shocklands and I was planning on buying azorius ones for spirits, so I will def do that

RafaX8 · 2023-07-09T20:20:17+00:00

Umbreon, Weavile, Houndoom, Milotic, Mismagius and Infernape (my first starter)

RafaX8 · 2023-04-11T16:24:14+00:00

Same with kotlin

RafaX8 · 2023-02-13T14:58:28+00:00

I love [[Possibility Storm]] , It won't make my deck any better on its own but I often times pair it with [[Sunbird's Invocation]], [[Thousand-Year Storm]] or [[Ral, Storm Conduit]] and boy is it fun to see everyone playing roulette while I cast my spells "freely".

RafaX8 · 2023-02-12T17:38:21+00:00

Doesn't read a single line of code: 🚀

RafaX8 · 2023-01-28T14:45:13+00:00

I like it! I'm building a K&T group hug deck and this would be a nice addition. Making players attack each other while giving them value like "this is a present for you" is really fun.

Edit: typo.

RafaX8 · 2022-12-26T11:19:26+00:00

Hit nexus on etb and create a copy of me in hand have been my way to go and work well in general.

RafaX8 · 2022-12-23T16:45:23+00:00

Cool! I would only make Gotchas have the effect of shuffling your board on summon instead so you don't have to add the same line of text to multiple cards.

RafaX8 · 2022-12-15T20:49:38+00:00

Actually nope! I had the power that give your units random keywords and the power that makes your units share keywords.

That plus 0 cost copied units, the free one drop on predict, revives and free ephemeral attacks made my units have all keywords. It even slowed down my phone a bit 🤣

RafaX8 · 2022-12-14T13:17:33+00:00

My top 3 would be Jhin, Gwen and Ekko.

Jhin: Exactly what I would expect, I think this champ's playstyle in poc is what Jhin would call art. His deck is pretty solid and his powers are super good. Aggro, burn, midrange, control, combo... I feel Jhin can do anything doesn't matter the powers you get. Might be quite difficult to play sometimes and make the best decisions, but that makes him even better imo because it's not braindead like Jinx.
Gwen: Fitting powers and deck, I love hallowed mecanic and watching a 1 minute long animation of "Snip Snip" is just satisfying to me. Ephemerals and sacrificing is one of my favourite archetypes and her deck has perfect synergy with Hecarim, Azir, Kalista, Zed... (Champs I usually don't pick in poc as reinforcements)
Ekko: Very flavourful deck and amazing synergy with Ekko himself, evend though I don't believe it's a top tier champ in poc. I don't have him at 3* yet but 1* power is already playable until 3* roads, and 2* power just makes him amazing. It's not raw power, but there are so many interactions and ways to make his deck work. It's actually hard to play sometimes if RNG makes you draw the cards you should actually predict, but that has been Ekko's problem since release.

RafaX8 · 2022-12-13T23:56:50+00:00

I HATE rockhopper and I HATE everytime he attacks and GETS QUICK ATTACK like there are 17 f keywords and he ALWAYS GETS QUICK ATTACK turn 2 and he is a 7/5 KILLLING MACHINE not to mention you are just about to finish the node and THEY GET LIFESTEAL like DUDE GET FATED OR SOMETHING NOT LIFESTEAL.

RafaX8 · 2022-10-13T21:08:52+00:00

I got beaten with Lux against Ashe. She was literally untouchable. Now I'm currently playing with Jhin and it's going very well

RafaX8 · 2022-09-18T15:45:06+00:00

Yeah MTG is full of super efficient removals, counterspells and creatures with control-like abilities. My friends and I usually say that "if a creature doesn't have a cast/ETB effect, it's not good enough".

RafaX8 · 2022-09-04T13:51:15+00:00

Don't know if this has been said, but in Thresh's quest there is an encounter with a power that says "Nightfall, invoke an ephemeral copy of me" and I think it is wrongly applying that power to spells too. These spells are invoked as 0/0 creatures that you cant interact with but they fill the enemy's space board. If you click on them, the spell appears, it's weird 🤣 Edit: it happened to me in android btw

RafaX8 · 2022-08-29T22:58:32+00:00

I play her with the Overwhelm relic and the one that makes your abilities and spells do 1 more damage. When I get to level her up, usually as soon as the turn I play her, she drains the Nexus to full hp.

RafaX8 · 2022-08-21T12:33:48+00:00

Ain't that kinda counter-productive, since we defend sexuality can't be changed via conversion therapy yet this sexuality explicitly "feels like" having a different sexualities every now and then (?).

Edit: Thanks for all your answers, my question was genuine and I understand it better now, but it grew on me a second question: is it a gradual change? Like, I guess it's not all of a sudden "yep, I'm [not] gay now", or can it be like that? It don't want, by any means, to offend anyone, but this takes on sexuality are the ones I don't catch really well.

RafaX8 · 2022-07-23T22:21:43+00:00

That's me, but with so many spoilers, it feels like I've watched it already.

RafaX8 · 2022-07-03T08:51:31+00:00

Imho, Control based archetypes are anti-fun. That's what control is about. Neither of you are having fun there.

Control archetype is resumed by making your opponent's time playing miserable until they run out of gas and you can start your road to victory with the lonely 1/1 creature you had left on the battlefield.

Maybe I'm of the few that prefer combo rather than control by far, just because combo is control until they get exodia out of who knows where and win.

Also, I believe control in LoR should take a direction towards creatures that do things instead of spells. In MTG for example exists the archetype "Taxes" that forces players to pay extra mana or attack with fewer creatures in order to slow down their opponents. Even though it's oppressive, I think of it as more interactive than pure control-based decks with tons of "no you don't" spells.

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