Metagame.com: School of Hard Knocks, Deck Construction and Redundancy

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10/23/2006, 04:21

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Metagame.com: School of Hard Knocks, Deck Construction and Redundancy

When I first started playing this game, my Vs. grandpappy sat me down on his knee and told me a story that I would like to share with you. Grandpappy had a very bony leg, so we can make this short: “Play the best deck.” The best players play the best decks. The best decks usually have the best cards. “Best” is a judgment call, so it is often useful to define such terms at the beginning of a conversation. I tend to think of success and achievement in terms of outcomes. Outcomes can be a very powerful source of feedback. Touch the hot stove and you get burned. Very powerful.

Make a great deck, play it, and win a bunch of money. Also very powerful. But players play for many various reasons. I hear that some folks play this game for the pure enjoyment. There is a secret community of casual players running incarnations of X-Statix builds and trying to put a bunch of plague counters on your Clench Virus. Therefore, positive outcomes can mean different things for different players.

These articles are typically aimed at advanced players or professional gamers, so we will talk about outcomes in terms of tournament rankings, monetary earnings, or even advancing past a prior point of tournament success. It is hard to obtain the greatest positive outcome in a tournament without optimal cards and outstanding decks. There are many instances where great players field sub-par decks—and those players may end up with strong performances—but there are times when great play cannot supplant a poor deck choice.

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