The Swinging Pendulum: Controlling Your Luck
The fact of the matter is that there is no way to completely beat luck. Sometimes you’ll play a Dark Confidant on turn 2 and not have a third land when the game ends on turn 7. That’s just how Magic is. However, what you can do is something I have to teach people all too often: you have to decrease your chances at losing to luck.
Picture this. It’s FNM and you’re playing your well-tuned control deck and your first round matchup is some grubby kid playing what looks to be...…
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