MTG Salvation

Yeah, I like Spellweaver version of "controlling" red.
Don't forget the recently printed Syr Carah, the bold.
You'll want low-cost creature removal like Flame slash and abrade that don't go to the face

I have seen people construct Wr or Br controlling decks using low cost red removal and White and Blacks topend creatures there is a lot of removal you can just suck up with a draft like that then just find any way to win.

Well, it's possible to play "like blue" in a non-blue deck. I have a friend that says I play the most "Blue" Green/black deck ever because I just spend the whole game drawing cards.

Hate does tend to force players to change: I played Pithing Needle and I would just start naming commanders and people stopped playing commanders with activated abilities. We also once had a Mono-Black combo Mikaeus, the unhallowed deck in our group and we just slapped Nevermore into our decks and named his commander and he could never get rid of it. (at the time around innstrad/RTR) And so he learnt a lesson about playing linear combo decks. We kind of pushed people away from that kind of deck forever by having this hate and a culture of just hating something out if we didn't like it.

So first ask him why he likes blue so much? and try to find a non-blue deck that can do the same sort of things, second prepare your decks to deal with those kinds of things.

So you hit Tron turn three play Karn, the Great Creator and I search my sideboard for...

What do you get?

The problem I am running into is that I feel the need to protect Karn, rather than say getting Lattice (and have my opponents kill my Karn and play their own) I want instant action from my Karn but I just get some dinky dork to try to block.

I forgot brain maggot being an enchantment is good for delirium...
Perhaps I am trying to hard to make whispers of Emrakul work when I could just be using the discard and hand attack creatures for the same effect.

Specter's Shriek seems good
There is still a sideboard to build for things like Collective Brutality.

In short I think this deck should be workable in Pioneer.

Obviously this deck is kind of bad while treasure cruise is legal and it will be harder to make work without a bridge but I am having an ongoing thought experiment about how many modern decks and former standard decks easily port over to pioneer.

I often suggest lazav, dimir mastermind Clone tribal type decks because it scales with the group power.

I find that in casual play groups it's just about having sufficient time to play the game and who wins isn't actually relevant as long as they don't win quickly. So sometimes if you are just naturally a spike you'll find yourself crushing people with the worst decks you can imagine. What you have to do is change your play style to match them. Your job becomes sort of Police, slow down whoever is winning, having good threat assessment is critical, just keep the game going until people have played their decks gambits (everyone has had a chance to win) then end it quickly.

I have an actually quite powerful and expensvie Glissa, the traitor deck but its slow and grindy so no one feels like they are getting crushed when they play against it.

I am not a big fan of the colour scheme it isn't intuitive, brain was hurting trying to keep track of what was popular.
I feel like green should be the highest and red the lowest.

There is a lot of popular cards I disagree with but hey thats okay.

Silverblade Paladin is not legal in Pioneer.

Exemplar of Strength is the only card I could find that seems like it works in an almost comboy way with archangel of thune its not really a combo.
Channeller initiate is also good

Are there any Soul Sisters legal... Let me gather search. Impassioned Orater, Pious Evangel and Ajani's welcome

Anointer Priest and Authority of the Consuls could also be useful

Oh yeah that spider does seem really good. The escape mechanic seems like it could be super good as a another "flashback" mechanic with a lower mana cost than something like eternalise

I think it would be fine particularly when a lot of uncommons have gotten a lot stronger recently.
Your counter spells and burn will be a lot worse but I play modern peasant and that also has worse counters and burn than full peseant and that's fine.

The big issue is that the available lands kind of suck, you don't even get all the tri lands and a lot of those powerful uncommons are multicoloured.

Dumbest Pioneer legal combos... go!

Aetherworks, Copy Cat, Jeskai ascendancy are the former standard ones that come to mind
but... being able to get a deeper card pool should find a bunch more new combos

Most of the time people are just ramping for the first couple of turns.

I often a pile of cantrips in my decks just so I can spend time setting up, making sure I make my land drops etc. So either I have ramp or cantrips in the early turns.

Luminarch Ascension is often amazing when people are too busy ramping to notice what you are doing.

Playing a triple black card in a three colour deck seems ambitious.

I played my favourite archetype UW flyers (with artifact subtheme). I had a pretty good experience with Eldraine sealed. Despite its weird formatting and behaviour adventures work really well for limited. I never felt I lacked for something to do, there was always a play. Other than getting completely run over by large green creatures I was able to tempo through food tokens with no problem.

I use 2x fat pack boxes or bundles or whatever they are called now. I only have the 4 commander decks.

I use the holiday box for my cube.