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Pioneer: Sultai Delirium - Work in progress

Introduction to Pioneer + Failed Brews As someone that has always preferred standard to other formats, I got very excited when they announced that they were going to release a format called SUPER STANDARD (Pioneer). I started playing MTG around M12 and got more seriously into it right around RTR, so literally this format spans my entire competitive magic foray. Decided to put a week or two into pioneer before focusing back on standard to be ready for my MC VII appearance and this is what I came up with. As always, wanted to focus on ideas that few people were focusing on. The brews I put work into were BW vampires, Jeskai flash and Sultai Delirium. I got them all to a positive record, but Jeskai Flash was a dud... Structurally, it is not a strategy that lines up well with what the better decks are trying to do. I was very impressed with Brineborn cutthroat in standard and wanted to see if I could port it + Spell Queller + Brazen Borrower into pioneer. Brineborn and Spell Quell...