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If you can accomplish all of these things, you stand do to well here in the early days of Pioneer.

For perspective, the two most dominant cards in our current Standard formatSmuggler's Copter and Gideon, Ally of Zendikarare showing up in about 50% of decks.) Once again, it's not so much the bannings themselves but the reason for the bannings that is of note

Use opaque sleeves and keep your sleeves consistent

If you have at least three legendary enchantments the rainbow mana sink to create a few tokens is good

We're rapidly running out of January which means we'll almost certainly hear something more concrete about Pokemon TCG Pocket's next set any day now