Was Field really THAT bad? I have played a bunch of paper tournaments and no one was playing it. I have seen a ton of red based decks. Most were aggro but I have seen some Phoenix decks
Field is just a bit of an oppressive card IMO. Being entirely land-based means both that it leaves a lot of room in your deck to fill in whatever support cards you want whether it's ramp, answers, card draw, or other threats, and that there aren't that many answers to the card as lands are relatively hard to remove. Combine that with the endless value stream it generates and it's a bit of a menace. Older, naturally faster formats like modern shouldn't have much problem with its existence because it's not hard to race down, but pioneer was a little bit too slow like standard such that it shuts out a lot of slower decks, making it a problem even if it didn't exactly flood the meta, but the suggestion seems to be there was just a lot of it too. Look at MtgGoldfish's pioneer meta breakdown for example. There's a lot of Field of the Dead decks.
I'm by no means a metagame expert, but that seems to be how it works.
Field is just a bit of an oppressive card IMO. Being entirely land-based means both that it leaves a lot of room in your deck to fill in whatever support cards you want whether it's ramp, answers, card draw, or other threats, and that there aren't that many answers to the card as lands are relatively hard to remove. Combine that with the endless value stream it generates and it's a bit of a menace. Older, naturally faster formats like modern shouldn't have much problem with its existence because it's not hard to race down, but pioneer was a little bit too slow like standard such that it shuts out a lot of slower decks, making it a problem even if it didn't exactly flood the meta, but the suggestion seems to be there was just a lot of it too. Look at MtgGoldfish's pioneer meta breakdown for example. There's a lot of Field of the Dead decks.
I'm by no means a metagame expert, but that seems to be how it works.
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RUNIN: Norse mythology set (awaiting further playtesting)
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Contibutor to the Pyrulea community set
I'm here to tell you that all your set mechanics are bad
#Defundthepolice