Creativity and individuality

I think one trend or aspect that contributes to or exacerbates how quickly we get to a large group of players playing the same net-decks is the creation of over-tuned archetypes by the devs. The archetypes packages can be so large sometimes that the majority of a deck feel premade before new sets are even released. The result is that it often does not take much time or experimentation to solve what is optimal for a deck before it becomes a net-deck for a particular meta.

This is why I like BSM, it’s archetype package was small enough that it left a lot room for experimentation, which I am still doing after hitting Legend on one server and D4 on another server with the deck. As soon as I feel that the deck is completely solved, I will probably quickly lose interest in playing it and in playing Standard.

We are lied to so much about nearly everything that skepticism is the healthiest approach to navigating life. On nearly any topic you can find an abundance of information arguing opposite viewpoints, which contributes a lot to people just choosing what they want to believe and accepting their view as the truth.

During the last five years, I have been developing a framework for being able prove a fact or truth as something concrete. It involves being data driven, but one also needs to understand how to vet the data, because a lot data is false, because it was created for purpose of deception.

I have some friends that sometimes get very frustrated with me, because I will not buy into their beliefs or opinions, because they cannot prove their beliefs with any good data in order to support their views. I have to say things like, “hey, you know that I am data driven, and I am just going to remain skeptical until you can produce some good data to support what it is that you want me to believe. :man_shrugging:

Ah, a fellow marketing expert!

Not even close. Which is why I don’t market or hustle anything.

Well, I might have missed your actual job, but I wouldn’t say it wasn’t close by the way you think and type :slight_smile: