Annoucing a brand new format! Pioneer

Pioneer, a new nonrotating format featuring cards from Return to Ravnica and forward is coming to tabletop and Magic Online events very soon!

Blake Rasmussen revealed a new format today in an article from Wizards of the Coast!

AetherHub Format support

We have already added the format and included it in our deck checker bot, meaning that all our Public Pioneer decks are legal to play. Going onwards we will be adding meta-pages for the format as soon as we accumulate enough deck data. Check out the new Pioneer decks here:

aetherhub.com/Meta/Format/Pioneer/

Communities

Communities around Pioneer have already started to pop up, we have a dedicated channel for Pioneer on our discord server: discord.aetherhub.com

On Reddit check out: MTGpioneer and PioneerMTG

BANNED:

The format will feature cards from Return to Ravnica and onwards with a ban list consisting of all the five fetchlands. 

The format will be available to build and test on Magic Online starting October 23, with premier and qualifying events starting soon thereafter. On the paper side, the format will be available for high-level play soon! Pioneer will be one of the formats at the first Players Tour Series of 2020 occurring February 1–2 and February 8–9. Additionally, the Players Tour Finals the weekend of April 25, 2020 will also utilize the format. Then, starting March 21, some tabletop qualifying events for Players Tours will start using Pioneer.

Pioneer will have the following support on Magic Online, beginning on October 23 when the game comes up from downtime:

• Play Lobby support on the level of Standard or Modern (i.e., super visible), including a League
• Weekly Format Challenges on Sundays, but no Format Playoffs for 2019
• PTQs on the following dates:
  
  • Friday, November 1
  • Friday, November 8
  • Friday, November 15
  • Saturday, November 23
  • Friday, December 6
  • Saturday, December 7
• A MOCS Preliminary event will be run Saturday, November 23

This Thursday, October 24, Aaron Forsythe and Max McCall will be on Weekly MTG on twitch.tv/magic at 2 p.m. PT to answer any and all questions about Pioneer.