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Best Midrange decks in Pioneer

A balanced mix of efficient threats and answers for the mid-game.

Midrange decks play the most powerful individually-strong cards and adapt: they go bigger than aggro and faster than control, winning the attrition battle with value creatures.

The skill is role assessment — knowing when to be the beatdown and when to play defense based on the matchup.

A non-rotating modern-era format spanning every set from Return to Ravnica onward.

Staple cards

  • Solemn Simulacrum
  • Roaming Throne
  • Storm-Kiln Artist
  • Beast Whisperer
  • Professional Face-Breaker
  • Scute Swarm
  • Pitiless Plunderer
  • Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • Foundry Inspector
  • Morbid Opportunist
  • Archmage Emeritus
  • Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • Reclamation Sage
  • Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • Loran of the Third Path
  • Toski, Bearer of Secrets