Faithless Brewing MTG: Modern and Pioneer for the Spike Rogue

Gone Spelunkin’: Twenty Pioneer Brews for Lost Caverns of Ixalan || #CeasefireNow

Season 20, Episode 3: Brew Session
 
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The Best of Lost Caverns of Ixalan in Modern & Pioneer (Set Review, Part 2)

Season 20, Episode 2: Brewer's Guide to Ixalan, Part 2
 
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Lost Caverns of Ixalan Full Set Review | #CeasefireNow

Season 20, Episode 1: Brewer's Guide to Ixalan, Part 1
 
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Blossoming Tortoise || #CeasefireNOW

Season 19, Episode 6: Brew Session (Blossoming Tortoise) + Flashback (Spiteful Hexmage)
Yertle the Turtle was king of them all. Yertle the Turtle had a great fall. But while he was down there, he also milled a few helpful lands, and set up a game-winning infinite combo.
David’s favorite card from Wilds of Eldraine takes center stage in our final brew session of Season 19. Blossoming Tortoise boasts the all-powerful Titan clause, combining card advantage and ramp every time it attacks. What’s more, the built-in selection from the self-mill finds specialty lands like Mutavault and Lavaclaw Reaches that combine with Tortoise’s cost reduction for infinite activations. Is that enough to secure the win? That’s the question on our minds as we explore a half dozen ways to unlock Turtle Power in Pioneer and Modern.
 
Intro: Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss
 
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Spiteful Hexmage: Cursed Roles for Cursed Wars

Season 19, Episode 5: Brew Session (Spiteful Hexmage) + Flashback (Agatha’s Soul Cauldron)
Is there anything more beautiful than a game object? Rectangle theory is back in full force this week with our favorite 1 drop from Wilds of Eldraine. Spiteful Hexmage is a beautiful puzzle, offering two fresh permanents on an above-rate creature at the cheapest possible price. The only catch? One of them is a Cursed Role, which is ostensibly a drawback.
The brewer’s gears are turning this week as we seek to turn a liability into an advantage, cashing in our Cursed Role for fun and profit and unlocking a black Wild Nacatl in the process. The possibilities are endless: we can enchantments-matter or auras-matter effects to gain advantage, or sacrifice the token to pay a cost, or even straight-up replace the token with a different Role. We can count the game objects, using Spiteful Hexmage to power Celebration or Regal Bunnicorn. We can “hide” the Cursed Role on a 1/1 creature, or even use it to upgrade a 0/0 creature. We can even find creatures that benefit from being shrunk into 1/1s! (Hello, Tree of Perdition.)
David is brewing up a storm in Pioneer and he’s already snagged his first 5-0 trophy with Spiteful Hexmage (which, incidentally, was also the first recorded 5-0 trophy with Setessan Champion since the Trump administration). Are there more to come? Let’s find out!
 
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Beseech the Mirror: Cracked from Side to Side

Season 19, Episode 3: Weekly Roundup (Wilds of Eldraine Week 1) + Brew Session (Beseech the Mirror)
The first week of results with Wilds of Eldraine is in the books. In Modern, Hot Ring Summer is drawing to a close, and players now clambering Up the Beanstalk to unlock endless value. Meanwhile, strange things are brewing in Agatha’s Soul Cauldron, with multiple known archetypes already picking up the artifact successfully, and dozens of more suspicious combos bubbling up besides. In Pioneer, Sleight of Hand is making early moves, and there’s so much left to explore.
What does all this mean for the early darling of preview season, Beseech the Mirror? The card is certainly powerful, as first week wins in Legacy and even Vintage can attest. But making this cheaper Bring to Light variant work in smaller formats is a trickier task. David has some ideas in Pioneer (hint: they involve Demonic Pact), while Modern players have taken a more brute force approach in decks like Oops All Spells. Cavedan and Lawson put their heads together to review eight new homes for Beseech the Mirror, to separate the truth from the hype. Is Beseech going to be a $75 dollar flop, or will we get more than we bargained for?
 
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Decklists
 
Agatha Yawgmoth by claudioh
Yawg Cauldron by CalebD
Hardened Scales by MentalMisstep
Heliod Life Combo by LFC
David’s Yorion Beseechiok Pact Combo
David’s Yorion Fires Beseech Pact Foretold
David’s Turbo Demonic Pact
Oops All Spells by Ashanti
Mono Black Coffers by IlGianB
Dimir Hatching Plans by Dack_Fayden07
As Foretold Waste Not by DylanMTG
Living End Reanimator by NinjaTheNick
Red Burn-finity by CrusherBotBG
Magda Changelings by toaohuntmaster
 

The Complete Brewer’s Guide to Wilds of Eldraine, Part 2 (Modern & Pioneer)

Season 19, Episode 2: Wilds of Eldraine Full Set Review, Part 2 of 2
Cavedan and David go hog wild in a 3-hour finale to our Full Set Review. Wilds of Eldraine is practically Pioneer Masters, but it has great new cards for Modern as well.
Beseech the Mirror has players dreaming of combos as far back as Legacy, and Up the Beanstalk is a dark horse contender for a Modern format full of free Elementals and cost reduction effects.
In Pioneer, David has his eye on Yurtle the Turtle (Blossoming Tortoise), while Dan is salivating over the second coming of Witching Well and Bedlam Reveler (Candy Trail and Hearth Elemental). For fans of smashing face, two new Otters juice up the Prowess archetype, while Goddric might just be the curve topper that red aggro has been waiting for.
Young heroes, wicked combos, and tasty gingerbread snacks await as we complete our 5-hour review of every card that’s fit to brew in Modern and Pioneer.
 
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Full Set Review: Wilds of Eldraine in Modern & Pioneer, Part 1

Season 19, Episode 1: Brewer’s Guide to Wilds of Eldraine
Once upon a time, Eldraine ruled the multiverse. An innocuous plane of fairy tales and enchantment quickly broke every format in Magic, thanks to brutally efficient cost reduction spells, pushed standalone threats (hello, Oko), and Adventures that allowed us to squeeze more out of a single piece of cardboard than ever before.
Wilds of Eldraine has a tough act to follow, but Wizards seems to have swung for the fences. Not only are Adventures back for seconds, but they are cheaper, free-r, and more colorful than ever before. On top of that, the innovative Role mechanic (and its counterpart, Bargain) has led to a set absolutely stuffed to the brim with 1 and 2 mana plays. These cards are meant to see play, and that means the rate is pushed across the board. It seems like every single 1 drop is “best in class” compared to the 30 years of Magic that came before.
Cavedan and Lawson kick off the new season of Faithless Brewing with a long look at the best Modern and Pioneer cards from Wilds of Eldraine. The bar is high in non-rotating formats, but when you fill a set with so many generously costed cheap plays some of them are bound to break through. Power creep intensifies with every visit to Oko’s woods; which new card will steal the trickster’s crown?
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