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And, as long predicted, Legacy follows the trajectory of Vintage, as SCG has finally reduced its support of Legacy as I predicted several years ago.

I also wrote a primer on this in 2007: http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/print.php?Article=14122

The way that I deal with those distinction is simple. In my Gush book I distinguish between four different types of cards that constitute The Plan:

1) Ultimate strategic objectives (Finishers)...

Exactly. A problem which is further compounded by the fact that decks do more than one thing .

Consider Aggro-Control. An Aggro-Control deck can play a tempo game against Control, but it can...

It's hard to answer questions that are unspoken.

The reason its a problem is because Aggro-Control is a better classification for Midrange that preserves the useful trichtomy of...

Come on. That's a bit over-the-top. Don't be a drama queen.

I'm not bothered by the use of terminology or even classification systems.

I'm simply pointing out that the attempts to...

We aren't reinventing the wheel here. Tempo has a well established definition in Magic as well.

It's simply decks that buy time. The classic example, as I said is Turn 1 Juggernaut/Juzam...

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope others do as well.

It's a crowdsourced resource. Of course there are errors, mistakes, and probably lies.

Have you ever used the app Waze? Or google maps? Or apple maps? They all have flaws, but the crowd...

In a neutral study, researchers actually discovered that Wikipedia has less errors per entry than Encylcopedia Brittanica. Wikipedia isn't perfect, but it's not a pile of bullshit.



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So true. The truth is that alot of Magic lexicon is poorly employed and poorly applied. Part of the reason for that is because many terms are ambiguous or imprecise, or are inherently so because...

Yeah, that's definitely wrong. 1-for-1 trades or even 2-for-1 trades are tempo plays. Fire on my opponent's two Delvers is certainly a tempo play. In fact, that used to be a paradigm of tempo in...

I wrote an article on tempo 10 years ago that defined tempo pretty clearly: http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/fundamentals/7601_Tempo_IS_Interesting.html\

Oddly enough, it's cited in the...

It could be though.

Playing Spiritmonger, and then casting Duress to disarm the opponent is a tempo play. Similarly, playing Spiritmonger and then using Deed to wipe out the opponent's mana...

That doesn't make sense to me. All Aggro-Control decks have tempo tools. Every time you play a threat and use a disruption spell, that generates tempo.




That's clearly wrong, to me.
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Who's the Beatdown does not answer the question of how to classify a deck from a strategy/general strategic orientation POV.

Remember, Who's the Beatdown was conceived in a context in which you...

The title of this thread is misleading. This isn't about "deck" taxonomy, so much as it is "strategy" or "archtype" taxonomy.

I confess I bought Chapin's latest book to understand how he...

While generally our podcast is Vintage oriented, the topic in this podcast is equally applicable to Legacy: Cantrips.

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More power to you.

But please don't, in that mode, opine on the ethics of tournament mechanics. Nor from that lens, disparage/impugn/denigrate or villify those who want to intentionally draw.
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That's not collusion. That's taking advantage of tournament structure. Collusion is illegal.

That used to be the norm, and it sucked. One loss and you can't win the tournament.

Not if the people who IDed are at the bottom of the standings.

In any case, the same could be said of losing to other people. By losing, you have given that person more points than they would...

You know this is not true.

Your rhetoric, language and word choice suggests more than mere disagreement. If playing it out is "honorable," than people who ID, therefore, lack honor.



That's a misapprehension on your...