Adam Haggerty's Pioneer Rack
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) pioPioneer
Approx. Value:
$358.22

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Avg. CMC 1.9
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 14 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (10)
4 Deathrite Shaman
$3.03 Creature - Elf Shaman
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
$5.46 Legendary Creature - Vampire Warrior
4 Rankle, Master of Pranks
$0.60 Legendary Creature - Faerie Rogue
Instant (4)
4 Fatal Push
$1.87 Instant
Sorcery (14)
2 Collective Brutality
$0.90 Sorcery
4 Despise
$0.09 Sorcery
4 Thoughtseize
$8.21 Sorcery
4 Vicious Rumors
$0.21 Sorcery
Enchantment (4)
4 Shrieking Affliction
$0.33 Enchantment
Planeswalker (4)
4 Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
$0.19 Legendary Planeswalker - Davriel
Land (24)
4 Castle Locthwain
$2.50 Land
4 Mutavault
$6.69 Land
15 Swamp
$1.85 Basic Land - Swamp
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
$42.76 Legendary Land
Sideboard - 139 cards, 131 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (38)
2 Bedlam Reveler
$0.23 Creature - Devil Horror
1 Blood Operative
$0.15 Creature - Vampire Assassin
1 Consuming Aberration
$0.61 Creature - Horror
1 Dimir Spybug
$0.09 Creature - Insect
1 Distended Mindbender
$0.23 Creature - Eldrazi Insect
1 Doom Whisperer
$1.84 Creature - Nightmare Demon
1 Dread Presence
$2.85 Creature - Nightmare
1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
$1.05 Creature - Zombie Wizard
1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
$0.13 Creature - Zombie Knight // Instant - Adventure //
1 Gifted Aetherborn
$0.23 Creature - Aetherborn Vampire
1 Gurmag Angler
$0.14 Creature - Zombie Fish
1 Herald of Anguish
$1.49 Creature - Demon
1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
$2.35 Legendary Creature - Elder Giant
1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
$0.79 Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
$3.69 Legendary Creature - Human Cleric // Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
1 Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper
$0.10 Creature - Merfolk Wizard // Sorcery - Adventure //
1 Minister of Inquiries
$0.10 Creature - Vedalken Advisor
1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
$6.23 Legendary Enchantment Creature - God
1 Nightveil Sprite
$0.10 Creature - Faerie Rogue
1 Overwhelmed Apprentice
$0.12 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Ox of Agonas
$0.41 Creature - Ox
1 Pack Rat
$3.19 Creature - Rat
1 Pharika's Spawn
$0.04 Creature - Gorgon
1 Piper of the Swarm
$1.11 Creature - Human Warlock
1 Pteramander
$0.11 Creature - Salamander Drake
1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
$3.09 Legendary Creature - Demon
1 Rakdos, the Showstopper
$1.58 Legendary Creature - Demon
1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.45 Creature - Ooze
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
$0.29 Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
1 Tectonic Giant
$0.22 Creature - Elemental Giant
1 The Scarab God
$11.13 Legendary Creature - God
1 Thief of Sanity
$0.19 Creature - Specter
1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
$2.23 Creature - Horror // Creature - Kraken Horror
1 Thoughtbound Phantasm
$0.14 Creature - Spirit
1 Vantress Gargoyle
$0.13 Artifact Creature - Gargoyle
1 Woe Strider
$0.31 Creature - Horror
1 Young Pyromancer
$0.31 Creature - Human Shaman
Instant (25)
1 Abrupt Decay
$1.38 Instant
1 Aetherspouts
$0.38 Instant
1 Assassin's Trophy
$2.51 Instant
1 Cling to Dust
$0.29 Instant
1 Despark
$0.41 Instant
1 Didn't Say Please
$0.15 Instant
1 Dimir Charm
$0.39 Instant
1 Drag to the Underworld
$0.09 Instant
1 Drown in the Loch
$1.03 Instant
2 Grasp of Darkness
$0.08 Instant
1 Hero's Downfall
$0.25 Instant
1 Into the Story
$0.18 Instant
1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.86 Instant
2 Liliana's Triumph
$0.22 Instant
1 Mission Briefing
$0.20 Instant
1 Murderous Cut
$0.25 Instant
1 Noxious Grasp
$0.07 Instant
1 Price of Fame
$0.15 Instant
1 Pulse of Murasa
$0.11 Instant
1 Sinister Sabotage
$0.07 Instant
1 Thought Collapse
$0.12 Instant
2 Ultimate Price
$0.11 Instant
Sorcery (36)
1 Agonizing Remorse
$0.04 Sorcery
1 Angrath's Rampage
$0.17 Sorcery
1 Bond of Insight
$0.15 Sorcery
2 Claim // Fame
$0.21 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Connive // Concoct
$0.13 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Cry of the Carnarium
$0.11 Sorcery
1 Cut // Ribbons
$0.38 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Discovery // Dispersal
$0.12 Sorcery // Instant //
1 Drill Bit
$0.07 Sorcery
1 Drown in Sorrow
$0.22 Sorcery
1 Duress
$0.04 Sorcery
1 Enter the God-Eternals
$0.32 Sorcery
1 Epic Downfall
$0.07 Sorcery
1 Fruit of Tizerus
$0.05 Sorcery
1 Harsh Scrutiny
$0.05 Sorcery
1 Kaya's Wrath
$0.29 Sorcery
1 Languish
$0.45 Sorcery
1 Lay Bare the Heart
$0.04 Sorcery
1 Legion's End
$0.41 Sorcery
1 Lost Legacy
$0.14 Sorcery
1 Mephitic Vapors
$0.04 Sorcery
1 Mind Sculpt
$0.11 Sorcery
1 Notion Rain
$0.06 Sorcery
1 Paranoid Delusions
$0.09 Sorcery
1 Scheming Symmetry
$5.80 Sorcery
1 Sign in Blood
$0.77 Sorcery
1 Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare
$0.98 Sorcery // Creature - Nightmare
1 Storm's Wrath
$0.20 Sorcery
1 The Elderspell
$0.35 Sorcery
4 Thought Erasure
$0.17 Sorcery
1 Tome Scour
$0.13 Sorcery
1 Whispers of Emrakul
$0.09 Sorcery
Artifact (2)
1 Altar of the Brood
$11.87 Artifact
1 Codex Shredder
$0.20 Artifact
Enchantment (18)
1 Chronic Flooding
$0.11 Enchantment - Aura
1 Curious Obsession
$0.52 Enchantment - Aura
1 Disinformation Campaign
$0.08 Enchantment
1 Doom Foretold
$0.19 Enchantment
1 Dreadhorde Invasion
$0.49 Enchantment
1 Drowned Secrets
$0.44 Enchantment
1 Elspeth's Nightmare
$0.16 Enchantment - Saga
1 Experimental Frenzy
$0.16 Enchantment
1 Fraying Sanity
$2.16 Enchantment - Aura Curse
1 Oath of Kaya
$0.24 Legendary Enchantment
1 Patient Rebuilding
$0.67 Enchantment
1 Psychic Corrosion
$6.17 Enchantment
1 Sphinx's Tutelage
$1.08 Enchantment
1 Starfield of Nyx
$15.65 Enchantment
1 The Eldest Reborn
$0.27 Enchantment - Saga
1 Trial of Ambition
$0.06 Enchantment
1 Underworld Connections
$0.30 Enchantment - Aura
1 Underworld Dreams
$2.85 Enchantment
Planeswalker (14)
1 Angrath, the Flame-Chained
$3.14 Legendary Planeswalker - Angrath
1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
$1.17 Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok
1 Gideon Blackblade
$0.81 Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
1 Gideon of the Trials
$1.83 Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$1.32 Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
1 Jace, Memory Adept
$4.69 Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
$0.32 Legendary Planeswalker - Kaya
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
$16.13 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
1 Liliana Vess
$5.19 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
$0.66 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
$14.04 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.82 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
$0.33 Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis
1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
$3.18 Legendary Planeswalker - Vraska
Land (6)
1 Canyon Slough
$0.42 Land - Swamp Mountain
1 Fetid Pools
$0.59 Land - Island Swamp
1 Ipnu Rivulet
$0.26 Land - Desert
1 Mutavault
$6.69 Land
1 Temple of Deceit
$0.18 Land
1 Temple of Malice
$0.31 Land

Notes
 
So there is a ton to play with in this build. The thought experiment started with remembering deathrite shaman is legal. People tried it without fetchlands and found it lackluster and have since forgotten it. It's still a uper powerful high pedigree card, but in pioneer it is either not good or a build around. So the question I'm asking myself is can we build around it? And if so, is that shell good?

When I first deep dived the format, I had in the back of mind the knowledge that there is enough card pool to support an 8-rack like strategy. These cheap hand disruption spells might be another route to fueling the shaman, and shaman can act as a pseudo rack. Vicious rumors is really well built for just this purpose. Mill is another option for fueling the shaman, and once we are headed down that route we get drown in the  loch and into the story. It could be possible to set up a super grindy 8-rack deck that gets to sit back with counterspells and draw 4's. Seems exciting! Then we can add our choice of must answer threats, and there are a ton for 2 or less.

If we can go into green we get abrupt decay, ooze, and trophy for complete coverage, but the mana get's worse.
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