Card Advantage Without All the Hullabaloo

There’s an old political joke/philosophical question that puts two notorious world leaders in one room together along with you, the reader. Just for the sake of argument, we’ll say it’s the year 1999 and the two men are Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. You have a gun and one bullet. Who do you shoot? Answers always vary. Some shoot Osama. Some shoot Saddam. Angst-laden teenagers and whiny poets both break the format and shoot themselves. So what does the Magic player do? “Let ’em stew a while,” he says.”If they line up correctly, I’m pretty sure I can get ’em both.” And that’s what card advantage is, without all the hullabaloo. It’s the fine art of killing two men with one bullet.