#150 - Is Pioneer Playable on Arena with Explorer Anthology 2?

The First Pioneers

While our 150th episode probably deserves more pomp and celebration, there is simply too much going on in the world of Pioneer to take a week off! With the Explorer Anthology 2 dropping on MTG Arena this week, we're guessing there are more than a few of you wondering if you can finally play your favorite Pioneer decks on the client. The new anthology drops 24 new cards into Explorer, and while some of them are obvious inclusions for the Arena only Brawl or Historic formats, we feel like the majority of cards will find homes and totally change the "Pioneer-lite" format.

The real question is, after we add all of these cards, how much closer does that bring us to having Pioneer available to the masses for free (grinding included)? Will the Explorer metagame finally mirror the Pioneer one? Will you be able to test out new decks on the client before your next paper Pioneer event? We're hoping you will, and Ryan also tries to convince Kevin to finally drop MTGO and open up Arena on his computer. Whether he succeeds or not ... well you'll just have to listen.

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