Street’s of New Capenna’s Tainted Indulgence also plays a pivotal role in the deck, digging deep to find the combo pieces while being able to refill the hand in the later turns at instant speed. However, the secret mode of Mending is the real spice to the card, as gaining two life per cast is typically enough to stabilize and claw your way back into a game against the more aggressive strategies. Drawing and discarding with the option to flashback is of course quite strong – a lesson we learned with Faithless Looting. Greasefang is at heart a reanimator deck, and to facilitate that, the likes of Can’t Stay Away and Obscura Charm are used here to fight through hate and removal that would otherwise keep the Rat Pilot at bay, while also enabling more meaningful use of the looting spells by creating situations where the Greasefang doesn’t necessarily need to sit in hand until it’s useful.įaithful Mending is a card that everyone knew had potential to be powerful from its spoiling.
#MEGASEG ON A PIONEER DECK HOW TO#
We’ve already covered how to perform the “combo” that Greasefang decks get their namesake from, and it should be noted that this plan is the major driving force behind the list. The Esper variants of this archetype tend to assume the control role in their matches, relying on a flurry of removal spells and countermagic to keep things safe while they use looting effect spells to both dig for additional answers and put the Parhelion in the grave. While the Vehicle is returned to hand at the end step, this process results in a flying attack for 13 damage that leaves two 4/4 flying Angels in play, which can ideally clean things up the following turn. Once there, Greasefang just happens to have enough power to singlehandedly crew the Parhelion, which can swing in that turn thanks to haste. Then sometime around turn three, cast a Greasefang, Okiba Boss and stop in the begin combat step to return the Parhelion from the grave to the battlefield. The core principle of each is to spend the first couple of turns fending off the opponent while also putting the biggest Vehicle in the format, Parhelion II, into the graveyard. Greasefang decks in Pioneer come in several different flavors, with each three-color combination including black and white. I do not feature decks that I went 0-5 with unless there’s a reason to do so. Usually the idea is that the deck is cohesive enough to see legitimate play, or get you on your way to owning the staples you need to play other decks once you’re ready to move on to bigger and better things. I have no intention of handing you a pile of worthless cards. The decks I feature will be tested and worthwhile.Budget decks are meant to be affordable to the people who need them, not to be compared to some benchmark set by the prices of the top tier decks of the format. Each Pioneer list will average out to around $100 at the time of posting.As such, the goal here is to learn the ins and outs of the format while playing an established or otherwise highly playable archetype. My decks and articles are meant to give you a starting block, not a finish line.
You should not expect excellence out of this list.Let’s take a look at budget Esper Greasefang.īefore we can take this deck from zero to 60, let’s cover some guidelines as always.
Today, we’re taking a look at a relatively recent addition to the Pioneer roster that’s come about thanks to Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and has since received a major shot in the arm thanks to Streets of New Capenna. This happens pretty infrequently, but when that perfect card does come around, the feeling couldn’t be sweeter. It is the hope of every savvy Magic investor to find in their pile of random rares from four or five years ago that special something to turn their draft bomb or Commander niche filler into a legitimately viable archetype.
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