Much Abrew: Pioneer 8 Rack

Tweet by SaffronOlive // Apr 13, 2020

video Much Abrew About Nothing Pioneer

Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing. Eight-Rack is a deck with a cult following. People love making their opponents discard cards, and cards like The Rack offer an easy, on-theme win condition for decks overloaded with discard spells. While 8 Rack has floated around on the fringe of Modern for years with varying degrees of success, today, we're playing 8 Rack on hard mode: in Pioneer, where The Rack itself isn't even legal! So how can we be 8 Rack without The Rack? Well, even though we don't have the literal Rack, we do have a couple of pseudo-The Racks in Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage and Shrieking Affliction to finish off our opponent once we get them low on cards, along with Waste Not to generate extra value from our discard spells themselves. Can 8 Rack work in Pioneer? How good is a discard-themed deck in the format? Let's get to the video and find out; then, we'll talk more about the deck!

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Much Abrew: Pioneer 8-Rack

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