play piddly little things early, be totally nonthreatening. aim for the long game not the short one. if you have an answer to something and the choice is play your rock or keep mana up to deal with that thing, keep the mana up. make a friend as quick as you can. guy bro over there is about to get his ***** stopped? shoot some disruption out to stop that and gain his favor.
what i find is sometimes i do have to be mean to a single player. green guy is ramping? spell pierce his cultivate, let that other guy's cultivate go through even though you could stop it. strip mine his only black source, or his coffers. its difficult because you can't be TOO aggressive with control early. you have to be subtle. basically you're shooting for table police to try and gain favor
sometimes its tricky, because people will gun for the control player right away especially if they know your tricks... but thats where politics come into play. getting pounded? try to strike a deal. explain how you're not the threat to the rest of the table.
now if they're just charging into you right away, disrupting you, stopping you while you already have no board state... well... call them on it. explain to them how unfun that is for you, to have no board state and to not be a threat and just get hammered into the ground while someone else is free to do whatever they want for the win. it sucks. it does. but a lot of people forget that there should be no memory from the previous pod.
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play piddly little things early, be totally nonthreatening. aim for the long game not the short one. if you have an answer to something and the choice is play your rock or keep mana up to deal with that thing, keep the mana up. make a friend as quick as you can. guy bro over there is about to get his ***** stopped? shoot some disruption out to stop that and gain his favor.
what i find is sometimes i do have to be mean to a single player. green guy is ramping? spell pierce his cultivate, let that other guy's cultivate go through even though you could stop it. strip mine his only black source, or his coffers. its difficult because you can't be TOO aggressive with control early. you have to be subtle. basically you're shooting for table police to try and gain favor
sometimes its tricky, because people will gun for the control player right away especially if they know your tricks... but thats where politics come into play. getting pounded? try to strike a deal. explain how you're not the threat to the rest of the table.
now if they're just charging into you right away, disrupting you, stopping you while you already have no board state... well... call them on it. explain to them how unfun that is for you, to have no board state and to not be a threat and just get hammered into the ground while someone else is free to do whatever they want for the win. it sucks. it does. but a lot of people forget that there should be no memory from the previous pod.