It seems pretty common among magic blogs to offer up situations and get responses on the proper way to play it. So I’m going to do the same thing.<\/p>\n
Let’s say you’re playing a magic game in the star format. In this one, there are 5 players, and each player has to try to defeat the 2 people sitting across from them. The first person to do that wins. One of your opponents is Phage, and their opponents are you and Akroma. The board is pretty developed, and choices here matter a lot. Particularly, you and Akroma are both in good positions to attack someone. Your situations are actually pretty similar.<\/p>\n
If you both attack Phage, you can probably beat Phage down pretty badly so that she can’t counter attack as strongly. When it comes around to both of your next turns, you’ll both be at 15 life after taking a little hurt from Phage. If you attack Phage and Akroma doesn’t, then Phage will get beat a little, but she’ll be able to counter-attack, and since you attacked her, she’ll hit you back. So you’ll be at 5 life, and Akroma will be at 20 life. Conversely, if you don’t attack and Akroma does, Akroma will be at 5, and you’ll be at 20. If neither of you attack, Phage will just attack both of you, and you’ll both be at 10 life.<\/p>\n
It’s your turn, and Akroma’s after yours. Do you attack or not?<\/p>\n
(Edit: I guess an even better question is, in addition to how you attack, what else would you do and what factors caused you do choose to do what you did?)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems pretty common among magic blogs to offer up situations and get responses on the proper way to play it. So I’m going to do the same thing. Let’s say you’re playing a magic game in the star format. In this one, there are 5 players, and each player has to try to defeat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magic.kevinleung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}