PIONEER FORMAT
Why Play This Format?
- Express yourself with innovative deck building!
- Make your own new strategies for gameplay.
- Cards do not rotate as new Standard sets are released.
Different Ways to Play
Tabletop
Gather with friends and play in person! Tabletop is your chance to see physical card treatments like exclusive art, foils, and thematic frames up close.
SpellTable
Use your webcam to play Magic with friends in a private game, or match against players around the world! Now available with state-of-the-art card scanning technology.
MTGO
Celebrating twenty years strong! Magic: The Gathering Online allows you to collect cards, build decks, and duel other players with the widest array of cards and formats available.
Play Rules/Modifiers
This nonrotating format features sets from Return to Ravnica, forward. It aims to be more powerful than Standard but less powerful than Modern or Legacy. Constructed decks can have up to four of any card in their combined deck and sideboard. Basic lands are not included in this restriction.
- Minimum deck size of 60 cards - Up to 15 cards in your sideboard (if used)
What Sets Are Legal in Pioneer?
Outlaws of Thunder JunctionMurders at Karlov ManorThe Lost Caverns of IxalanWilds of EldraineMarch of the Machine: The AftermathMarch of the MachinePhyrexia: All Will Be OneThe Brothers' WarDominaria UnitedStreets of New CapennaKamigawa: Neon DynastyInnistrad: Crimson VowInnistrad: Midnight HuntAdventures in the Forgotten RealmsStrixhavenKaldheimZendikar RisingCore 2021Ikoria Lair of BehemothsTheros Beyond DeathThrone of EldraineCore Set 2020War of the SparkRavnica AllegianceGuilds of RavnicaCore Set 2019DominariaRivals of IxalanIxalanHour of DevastationAmonkhetAether RevoltKaladeshEldritch MoonShadows over InnistradOath of the GatewatchBattle for ZendikarMagic OriginsDragons of TarkirFate ReforgedKhans of TarkirMagic 2015Journey into NyxBorn of the GodsTherosMagic 2014Dragon's MazeGatecrashReturn to Ravnica