This was originally going to be a short episode. We had the Mythic Championship result, the B&R update whose contents we pretty much knew already, and that was that. And then Wizards of the Coast announced Pioneer, an entirely new competitive format, completely out of the blue today! Holy crap! So we'll discuss Mythic Championship V, explaining the double-elimination top 8 for those that can't quite tell what's going on just by looking at the bracket. Then we'll hit the B&R update as expected. And then we're going to go hard on Pioneer, explaining what it is, talking about the Day 0 Banned List, and addressing some of the concerns we've seen from the community. All in all we're excited to see what Pioneer brings us!

And then, Cluze will finally open his final pack of Modern Horizons! Will the third pack be awesome like the first, or miserable like the second?

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NEWS

Mythic Championship V coverage - https://magic.gg/events/mythic-championship-v

Banned & Restricted List update - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-21-2019-banned-and-restricted-announcement

Pioneer Format Announcement - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-pioneer-format-2019-10-21

Pioneer bannings will be aggressive - https://twitter.com/mtgaaron/status/1186371195748270080?s=20

2020 MagicFest Schedule (with Pioneer) - https://www.cfbevents.com/2020

Pioneer now live on WER - https://wpn.wizards.com/en/article/now-live-wer-pioneer-magics-new-non-rotating-format

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