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Coffs Harbour City Council Deputy Mayor Dr Sally Townley, Save Nambucca River President Darrell Hughes, Nambucca Valley councillors Cr Susan Jenvey and Cr David Jones, Save Nambucca River publicity officer Elizabeth Newman, NSW Farmers Nambucca River Branch secretary Julie Gooch, local farmer Elaine Ward and group members.

ENVIRONMENTAL scientist Dr Sally Townley addressed the May meeting of the recently formed Save Nambucca River group.

Dr Townley is also the Deputy Mayor of Coffs Harbour City Council, having been elected to this position in 2022, and has been a Councillor in Coffs Harbour since 2012.

Dr Townley spoke to the meeting about the changes in Coffs Coast agriculture over the last fifteen years, especially in the move to high density agriculture like blueberries and cucumbers.

Coffs has seen massive changes in agriculture, and the transition to blueberries and cucumbers (over the last 30 years), and massive land clearing, said Dr Townley.

The transition to hydroponic crops such as cucumber and blueberries has seen the need for increased use of nutrients, pesticides, and water usage.

Illegal water usage in the area, including farmers digging oversized dams, and the overuse of nutrients and pesticides that leach into our river systems, was discussed at the meeting.

The conversion of our landscapes, coupled with water and chemical use for new intensive growing crops has led to massive degradation of our water systems.

When should the right to farm be put before our environment, land and water quality?

Some of the water testing in the Coffs area showed nutrient and pesticide contamination higher in rivers, creeks and lakes than areas in China, said Dr Townley.

Dr Townley advised that the first step for the group would be to lobby Nambucca Council for more extensive water testing.

Coffs Harbour City Council uses Southern Cross University for water testing, with the cost being funded from the environmental levy.

It is difficult to get action against illegal environmental pollution and over water usage, but there is a role for Council to play.

Coffs Council has a million dollar a year environmental levy, which funded Southern Cross University to conduct water studies.

Other than sewage contamination, they tested for nutrients and pesticides, in drinking water on 20 properties, said Dr Townley.

No one sample was above water safety, but its the accumulative effects of contamination that is the issue.

Youre not just drinking the water, youre showering, washing your dishes and clothes, using it on your gardens, this must have an accumulative effect over long periods of use.

Nambucca Valley councillors were invited to the meeting and Crs Susan Jenvey and David Jones were on hand to answer questions from the community.

Cr Susan Jenvey spoke with group members about putting a submission for extended water testing other than sewage contamination to be included in the next Council budget.

Cr David Jones spoke on the effects of erosion from Lanes Bridge after our recent fires and flooding events, and the contribution of these events to the poor water quality of the Nambucca River.

There has been massive erosion from Lanes Bridge sand and gravel has washed down the river.

There are a set of complex issues associated with the river starting from the headwaters creating even more complex situations that flow down to the lower reaches, said Cr David Jones.

Julie Gooch, Secretary for the Nambucca River Branch of NSW Farmers said, What we need is a whole river plan or we wont get anywhere.

The regulations are there, and biosecurity controls are very strict for farmers.

As farmers we need to work together with the community and Council to plan a better future for our river, everyone wants to see better land and water quality.

It was decided that a submission to be made to the Council for water testing other than just sewage contamination, including nutrients, pesticides and trace elements.

Both Crs Jenvey and Jones agreed they would support the community in working for a water quality solution for the Nambucca River.

For more information contact Darrell Hughes at [emailprotected] or https://www.facebook.com/groups/1164455767423178.

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Global carbon emissions could be cut by 50% by 2050 if one fifth of the worlds per-capita beef consumption is replaced with the meat substitute.

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Replacing 20% of global beef consumption with a meat substitute within the next 30 years could halve deforestation, according to a new modelling study.

The research, published in scientific journal Nature, found that eating one fifth less beef or swapping it with microbial protein, would cut 50% of carbon emissions associated with deforestation as well as methane emissions, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, from livestock and cattle raising.

Every year, the world loses about 10 million hectares of forests, with beef farming being the biggest driver of deforestation an estimated 81,081 square miles of forest land is lost annually for meat production, 80% of which occurs in the Amazon. 83% of farmland is also used for livestock and their feed crops, yet the meat and dairy produced accounts for only 18% of the calories consumed by humans. Land clearing also destroys wildlife habitats, threatening global biodiversity.

Experts say we must drive down meat production and consumption drastically to avert a climate crisis. Though more than 100 countries have pledged to stop and reverse deforestation by 2030, destruction rates remain high, especially in the Amazon. However, offering greener, meatless alternatives could help cut down the demand.

The food system is at the root of a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, with ruminant meat production being the single largest source, said Dr Florian Humpender, the studys lead author and a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany. The good news is that people do not need to be afraid they can eat only greens in the future. They can continue eating burgers and the like, its just that those burger patties will be produced in a different way.

According to Nature, previous research has shown that replacing beef with a meatless alternative called mycoprotein can have beneficial effects on the environment. The microbial protein, which can be produced from a range of microorganisms, including bacteria, is brewed in steel tanks by fermenting a soil-dwelling fungus with glucose and other nutrients as a food source similar to a beer-making process. The end product is a protein-rich food that tastes and feels like meat, and is just as nutritious.

The microbial protein first made its debut in the market in the 1980s in the UK under the brand name Quorn, which has since become the market leader. But there are widely more options available today in many countries.

Researchers calculated that if 20% of the worlds per-capita beef consumption is replaced with the meat substitute, we could reduce methane emissions by 11% and deforestation and associated emissions by 50% by 2050. If we swap out 50% of the beef, that would equal more than 80% reduction in deforestation and carbon emissions, and replacing 80% of beef would eliminate about 90% of forest loss.

However, if the world remains on its current trajectory of production and consumption, or under a business-as-usual scenario, annual deforestation rates would double, as will the methane emissions and agricultural water use.

But the study notes that there will be relatively minor changes in agricultural water use regardless of how much meat substitute we replace as the water required to grow crops for feeding cattle would go towards growing other types of crop.

While the new findings show a pathway in which we can reduce some of the global food productions environmental footprint, Humpender said this alone will not solve the climate crisis.

Microbial protein should not be seen as a silver bullet, he said. But rather as a building block in a large transformation of the whole food and agricultural system, combining it with reductions in food waste, incentives to eat healthier, and de-incentivising the sale of products with high environmental impacts.

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Yesterday, Dhungatti artist Blak Douglas was awarded the 2022 Archibald prize and $100,000 for his work Moby Dickens the largest painting in this years exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).

Douglas is a six-time Archibald finalist and a 2009 Wynne Prize finalist, renowned for his portraiture of First Nations people. Im making up for lost ground in the failure to memorialise First Nations people, the artist who lives and works on Bundjalung Country in Lismore has said.

In his acceptance speech, Douglas highlighted that this is incredibly historic given that Im the first Koori to paint a Koori to win the Archibald Prize.

This painting represents 20 years of taking the risk of pursuing a dream, Douglas said.

The winning portrait depicts Wiradjuri woman and artist Karla Dickens, knee-deep in muddy flood waters. According to Dickens, it is a homage to each person who has similarly found themselves deep in mud, physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially after the natural disaster that has destroyed so many lives in the Northern Rivers of NSW and beyond.

The monumental work blends elements of realism and graphic styles to create a unique aesthetic. Muddy waters and dark storm clouds extend into the background almost indefinitely, and the daring eyes of Dickens reflect a deep defiance in anger while looking at the face of climate disaster in this country.

The works title is in reference to Herman Melvilles 1851 novel Moby Dick. Here, in Douglas painterly reflection, Karla Dickens represents the storys titular whale who is ready to rip the leg off any fool with a harpoon who dares come too close.

The graphic flat-bottomed clouds in the paintings sky are a recurring political motif in Douglas work. Their flat bases represent what Douglas describes as the false ceiling of government. Additionally, the 14 clouds represent the number of days the rains and floods devastated the Northern Rivers area. Water leaks through the ineffectual buckets in the hands of Dickens, serving as an allegorical representation of the climate crisis slipping through our hands and the nearly insurmountable challenges it poses to communities.

It is gratifying to see the prize be given to not only a First Nations artist and subject, but also a robustly political painting in a time when it is demanded most. Douglas is an undeniable visionary in his artistic practice and philosophy Moby Dickens is set to become an icon of the Archibald for years and decades to come.

Prior to the award announcements, Emma Grey, an ANZ Group Executive, spoke on behalf of ANZ: The Archibald is part of the cultural fabric of this country. ANZ has been a sponsor of the Gallery and presenting partner of the Archibald Prizes for 13 years.

David Gonski, President of Art Gallery of NSW Trust, delivered the awards and emphasised that although [the board of trustees] had many an argument and lots of robust debate all final decisions made about the winners were all done in a unanimous fashion.

The creativity of Australia continues, he declared before announcing the duo Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro as the winners of the $40,000 Sulman Prize for their work Raiko and Shuten-dji.

Healy and Cordeiros winning work is a reimagining of the Japanese folk story of the fight between the warrior Raiko and the demon Shuten-dji. Materiality is perhaps this works most notable aspect, painted on the fuselage the main body of an aircraft of a Vietnam War-era helicopter. Further, the work has pinned threads of jute that extend across the work from a single plait like a web, creating a visually interesting and dimensional facade.

The prize was judged by artist Joan Ross, who said of the collaborative duos work that she immediately felt the dynamism of this work, its curved metal surface, its physical quality and beauty, its conceptual nature.

The $50,000 Wynne Prize was subsequently announced and given to Nicholas Harding for his work Eora who exclaimed that it was quite marvellous and unexpected.

Harding is a 19-time Archibald finalist (winning in 2001), a 9-time Wynne finalist and a 3-time Sulman finalist; this year, his winning work is an oil paint landscape in dominating hues of green and earthy browns. The works leafy imagery is a teeming amalgamation of plant life from the Northern Beaches area and Narrabeen Lakes. Investigating the ways nature has been shaped by colonisation and the impacts of industry land-clearing, Hardings work holds a clear message and is a deserved winner of the prize.

Eora stands as a memorial to how extraordinary the landscape must have been before white people got here and invaded the place and encroached on the landscape itself, Harding has said of his work.

Lastly, the winner of the Wynne Prizes Roberts Family Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prize was Pitjantjatjara woman Sally Scales painting entitled Wati Tjakura. The vibrant work is a representation of her ancestral family land Aralya in South Australia on Aangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

The 2022 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes open to the public today. For further information about the prizes and this years stand-out finalists read Honis analysis here.

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The televised debates between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition leading up to the election on 21 May have almost completely ignored climate change and the urgent action that is needed to address it.

In contrast, recent polls have reported that action to address climate change is one of the top three issues for the majority of Australian voters.

In early April, the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres said:

We are on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5C limit agreed in Paris. Some Government and business leaders are saying one thing, but doing another. Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic. This is a climate emergency High-emitting Governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye, they are adding fuel to the flames.

The most comprehensive scientific updates on climate change, its impacts and its solutions were released in 2021 and 2022 in the first three volumes of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Theres no doubt that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases have warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Global surface temperature has increased by 1.1C in the most recent decade compared with 1850 to 1900, with larger warming over land than the ocean.

Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased by more than 40 per cent since around 1750 as a result of land clearing and burning fossil fuels, and are now higher than at any time over the last million years.

Australias climate has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, leading to an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events.

A comparison of the observed Australian decadal temperature variations with those simulated by global climate models shows that the observed warming trend can only be explained by human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases.

The IPCC global assessment of the impacts of climate change includes a chapter on Australia and New Zealand.

The associated two-page Fact Sheet for Australasia identifies nine high-confidence key climate risks. These include:

Increase in heat-related mortality for people and wildlife due to heatwaves

Cascading impacts on cities, settlements, infrastructure and services due to wildfires, floods, droughts, heatwaves, storms and sea-level rise

Inability of institutions and governance systems to manage climate risks

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Australia is one of the developed countries most at risk from the adverse impacts of climate change.

The Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20 and the floods in south-east Queensland and New South Wales earlier this year clearly demonstrated the inabilities of governments at national, state and local levels to manage climate risks.

Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered.

Global warming of 1.5C and 2C will be exceeded during the 21st century unless deep reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades.

Every tonne of carbon dioxide emissions adds to global warming. Every increase in global warming adds to the changes in the climate system, increasing the frequency and intensity of hot extremes, marine heatwaves, and heavy rainfall.

Even if all countries meet their current emission reduction pledges and targets, global warming is expected to exceed two degrees, with much greater impacts across Australia.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change states that developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change.

But Australia makes a disproportionately large contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. It has only about 0.3 per cent of the global population but contributes about 1.3 per cent of global emissions. It has the highest per capita emissions of any developed country.

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Independent assessment of Australias fair share of global efforts to meet the Paris Agreement targets indicates that Australias emission reductions should be much greater than its current commitments.

They conclude that for Australia to meet its Paris Agreement obligations to limit global warming to 1.5C with a 50 per cent chance, its 2030 target for emission reductions should be 74 per cent relative to 2005 emissions, and net zero emissions by 2035.

The Climate Change Performance Index 2022 ranked Australia last in the world for climate policies, stating that the Australian governments policies are

insufficient for decarbonising the economy, reducing the use of fossil fuels, promoting renewable energy, and setting out how national GHG emissions will be reduced. The government does not have any policies on phasing out coal or gas.

The policies of both the Australian government and the Labor Party Opposition support continued coal mining and increasing natural gas extraction and export, as well as continued government funding for fossil fuel use in Australia.

Because every tonne of carbon dioxide emissions adds to global warming, these policies are choosing to make global warming worse.

Your vote at the national election allows you to make a choice.

You can choose to support rapid and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and stronger action to adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change.

Or you can choose to make global warming worse.

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Wizards of the Coast has finally unveiled the first Warhammer 40,000-themed cards for Magic: The Gathering. Announced in February 2021, the Universes Beyond product line will include four standard Commander decks and four collectors edition Commander decks, which are all scheduled to be released on Aug. 12. In addition, the collaboration with Games Workshop will also feature three Secret Lair drops. The announcement, made Thursday on Twitch, also included a handful of preview cards.

These new Commander decks will contain a combination of new cards and reprints of classic cards featuring new 40K-themed art. Decks include Necron Dynasties (black), Forces of the Imperium (white, blue, and black), Tyranid Swarm (green, blue, and red), and The Ruinous Powers (blue, black, and red). The only Legendary Creature revealed was Abaddon the Despoiler, a 5/5 monster with trample. That card includes the new Mark of Chaos Ascendant ability, which adds cascade to cards based on the amount of life that your opponents have lost this turn. That should allow plenty of additional spells to get triggered as a result.

The concept of collectors edition Commander decks is a first for Wizards. Presenters said Thursday that the decks will be fully foiled and will include a new surge foil treatment on certain cards. Photos and videos of the never-before-seen treatment are on the way.

Another new ability mentioned during the presentation is called Squad. It was included on the only Ultramarine-themed card shown during the presentation, and it allows players to field copies of a newly summoned creature for the cost of two additional mana of any color.

The 40-minute presentation also includes details on Double Masters 2022 (coming July 8) and Dominaria United (coming Sept. 9). For more details, you can find the entire archive on Twitch.

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Two and a half months after our Steam Deck review, Valve has finally provided the drivers youll need for audio if you choose to install Windows on the gaming portable. Before today, you would have had to pair Bluetooth headphones or plug in USB-C earbuds or a dongle to get any kind of audio on Windows at all. Both the speakers and 3.5mm jack did nothing on Windows before today, and it blamed AMD for the delay.

But now, this pair of new drivers should enable both of the missing audio features. It took a while for AMD and Valve to bring out the initial set of graphics, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and SD card drivers for Windows, too.

Is it time to install Windows on your Deck? Nope, I definitely wouldnt say that. While Valve keeps squashing bugs and adding neat features on the Linux side of things, Windows was even more of a mess to start, and Valves been clear youre largely on your own if you go that direction. I had all sorts of issues with Windows 10 some weeks back and while the Deck now has proper TPM support in the BIOS so you can install Windows 11, I cant tell you if itd be any better.

Personally, I would wait for Valves upcoming dual-boot wizard so you can add Windows without wiping the Steam Decks existing SteamOS installation first. (You can simply swap out the M.2 NVMe drive instead and keep the two OS separate that way, but be careful.)

For me, the bigger deal is that Windows simply doesnt have the same console-like trappings that make the Deck so good to begin with, particularly how you can get an instant window into your performance and battery life and fine-tune all of that on the fly.

If you want Windows, Id probably look into a dedicated Windows portable instead, particularly once rivals react to the Deck with more powerful chips and / or lower prices.

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The creators behind the Aya Neo gaming console have officially announced a successor to the popular gaming handheld called the Aya Neo 2. The new console features a host of upgrades over its predecessor, the largest of which includes an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (Rembrandt) APU with RDNA 2 graphics. The CPU upgrade makes the Aya Neo 2 one of the world's first handheld gaming consoles to leverage RDNA 2 graphics outside of Valve's Steam Deck.

The processor upgrade alone will give the Aya Neo 2 a serious performance upgrade over the original Aya Neo's Ryzen 5 4500U running on the older Zen 2 architecture and much slower Vega graphics. The AMD's Ryzen 7 6800U running in the Aya Neo 2 has two more cores and runs on the much more efficient and powerful Zen 3+ microarchitecture.

With this type of performance in mind, the Aya Neo 2 has the potential to outperform Valve's Steam Deck as well, and not just the older version of the Aya Neo. The Aya Neo 2 has superior APU specifications across the board, with a faster Zen 3+ CPU featuring more cores and a higher frequency RDNA 2 GPU that features more cores than the Steam Deck.

The Steam Deck's Aerith APU (a custom chip based on Van Gogh) wields four Zen 2 cores with a 2.4 GHz base clock and 3.5 GHz boost clock, whereas the Aya Neo 2's Ryzen 7 6800U flaunts eight Zen 3+ cores at a 2.7 GHz base clock and 4.7 GHz boost clock.

But the Aya Neo 2's most significant upgrade comes in the Radeon 680M RDNA 2 iGPU paired to the Ryzen 7 6800U, which is AMD's most potent iGPU to date. According to AMD, the Radeon 680M performs just under that of the entry-level discrete Nvidia GPUs such as the GTX 1650 Max-Q, making it a serious option for PC gaming at resolutions up to 1080P. In addition, the Radeon 680M has 12 RDNA 2 CUs at 2,200 MHz; meanwhile, Aerith sports eight RDNA 2 CUs that max out at 1.6 GHz.

The Aya Neo 2 is also receiving several other upgrades besides the SoC. Including support for LPDDR5-6400 memory, PCIe 4.0 SSD storage, and USB 4.0 ports, to name a few. The improvements should put the Aya Neo 2 at feature parity with other modern gaming handhelds, including the Steam Deck. Unfortunately, all we know about the new Aya Neo 2 is in terms of specifications. Other specs such as screen size, type, and resolution are still unknown.

Besides upgrades, the Aya Neo 2's also got a massive makeover in aesthetics. The console no longer features the boxy look of the original Aya Neo or the green and black finishes on the buttons. Instead, the Neo 2 features a far more rounded design, with grips that look very similar to the Steam Deck -- ironically, and the color theme has transitioned to a grey-on-white theme -- identical to that of Nintendo's Wii consoles and controllers. It gives the Aya Neo 2 a more mature look than the original Neo.

The only unfortunate news is that we don't have any data about a release schedule or pricing. However, if the new console has broken cover, we should know more information very soon.

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Rounds are shrinking and valuations are waning, but supply chains remain challenged. The problem may be shifting from inventory shortage to inventory glut, but the pressure to keep service up and costs down is still high as ever.

2021 was a banner year for supply chain tech. Startups across supply chain management, freight tech, warehouse tech, and last-mile delivery raked in $64 billion, according to Pitchbook. As of May 9 this year, supply chain tech has raised $17 billion roughly 27% of last year's funding total and 35% of the way through 2022.

That means supply chain tech venture funding in 2022 is currently pacing to land somewhere above 2020's $38 billion, but below 2021's $64 billion.

Charley Dehoney vice president of Xebox, a tech accelerator founded by the CEO of ocean shipping giant CMA CGM, told Insider business-to-business tech is maintaining investor confidence better than consumer tech.

"I'm definitely seeing that rounds are still coming together mostly the premium startups that have high quality growth numbers and really good adoption. They're still getting funded at valuations 65% what they were three or four months ago," Dehoney said.

Supply chain-related startups told Insider that investors have increasingly focused on unit economics toward the second half of last year especially for companies actually moving goods.

"Investors care a lot right now about unit economics for businesses like this, where historically there's been there have been companies that have raised a lot of money that haven't necessarily built a sustainable business model," Eric Wimer, founder and CEO of reverse logistics startup Returnmates told Insider in January.

Returns pickup, which Wimer champions, may be under increased scrutiny due to a spotty history. But even last mile delivery startups, which have traditionally received more funding than any other segment of supply chain tech, are on alert.

Veho founder Itamur Zur told Insider in February that the company's unit economics were as important to investors in its $170 million Series B round as its expansive vision for the future of e-commerce. Last-mile startups continue to draw the most backing from venture investors, but their share of total supply chain investment is dwindling.

Here are five pitch decks supply chain tech startups used to win over investors in the last year.

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The biggest strength of this deck is that the combo only takes up eight slots. The rest of the deck can be used to help execute Greasefangs plan. Portable Hole and Thoughtseize can deal with any hate that might start seeing play against this deck while milling creatures like Stitchers Supplier help find your combo pieces and prepare you to bring them back.

Another deck that had a decent Winota matchup, Omnath Adventures is by far the spiciest take on this list. This deck was so powerful in pre-Innistrad standard that it single-handedly added two cards to the standard ban list. Adventure lists excel when they can interact with their opponents and outvalue them by turning each card in the deck into three or four different spells with Lucky Clover. This deck has the tools to deal with everything else on this list and can do so rather easily.

Like the Yorion Fires deck, Omnath was being taken out by cards intended to deal with Winota. The meta will likely shift away from Redcap Melee now that Winota is gone, making Omnath harder to kill. Ray of Enfeeblement will be a card that this deck continues to watch out for.

The biggest appeal for this deck is the Mono Blue matchup. Adventures was created in a time when Flash and Control strategies excelled in standard. Tempo synergies that rely on counterspells to keep tempo do not deal well with a deck that copies each of their spells multiple times.

To make things even more exciting, this deck has some fringe success in Pioneer too. That version is rather different, focusing on Possibility Storm and Enter the Infinite, but if it can hang in Pioneer, it can hang in Explorer.

Strategies that scare this deck come from tempo swings that the deck cant keep up with like Nissa, who Shakes the World or things they cant interact with like Lotus Field. Those cards dont have a big impact in Explorer yet, so now is this decks time to shine! I recommend playing some copies of Yasharn, Implacable Earth in the sideboard to help deal with sacrifice.

There are other powerful strategies that are very viable in Explorer, but these are some of the best. There is now a big, but temporary, difference between Explorer and Pioneers ban lists. Is that going to affect the communitys opinion of Explorer? Hopefully, it really is temporary, and the formats become one and the same sooner than we think.

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