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Topic: Know The Opposition!
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DarkWaters
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posted January 25, 2001 06:06 PM
      
This article is aimed at all of you who just pick up *your usual deck* and play it over and over again. This is a bad strategic decision! It's a bad decision for a few reasons. First: You get stuck in the rut of never knowing how to play against anything else. I will admit playing a deck takes some practice - I can't play Armageddon because I haven't had enough practice. If you pick up a different deck, you will learn how to play against it. Everyone should know how to play counter. I find that the better counter player will win *regardless* of who is playing counters. Why is this? Simple: because the better player knows what a threat that needs to be countered is, and try to make the opponent dissapate counters on non-threats. Any deck you know how to play better than the opponent is one more deck that if he plays it, you are more likely to win. Second: Everyone else is ready for you in local tourneys. I have a couple decks I'm known for locally, and they are good decks, if my tourney wins with them are any indication. I have to change decks regularly or people will say "Ok, he's playing Survival, he always does, let's put in Planar Voids." So I periodically have to make up/copy decks without graveyard recursion or people will be sideboarding against me. I knew it was time to change decks when a player was *maindecking* Tormod's Crypt.__________________
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GottaLoveElves
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posted January 25, 2001 06:38 PM
One deck that's nice to learn strategy against is counterburn... if you can out-strategize a good counterburn player then you're not bad. However, black control is another deck that tends to dominate and you should be ready for too. Although these decks are far from common, I have experienced they are good ways to learn strategy. If you're going to try and learn strategy against the most common decks, you will find yourself stuck when you play a deck around the same theme with slight variations. I've experienced this, and lost a tournament because of it (stupid Replenish!!). My point is that try to learn against decks where a good strategy will win the game rather then just letting all guns loose. From experience I can say that's the best preparation __________________
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[Edited 1 times, lastly by GottaLoveElves on January 25, 2001]
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