I have been enjoying Magic casually for nearly half a 12 months now, principally within the multiplayer Commander format. Often, I hear folks discuss in regards to the energy ranges of decks. Particularly after I’m enjoying with somebody new, they ask me “what energy stage are we enjoying?” My response often is one thing like “I do not know”.
After asking round and looking out on-line, I’ve discovered the next particulars—please right me if I am incorrect.
Energy Stage
I’ve heard a pair parameters to date that affect the ability stage of a deck:
- the quantity of win circumstances (e.g. bomb playing cards, infinite combos)
- the benefit of manipulating probabilities to play these win circumstances (e.g. tutor playing cards)
- flexibility in eradicating threats from opponents (e.g. single goal elimination, and the benefit of getting them in hand when wanted)
- having sure staple land and mana playing cards
To date this has been useful, however each time I ask how precisely they arrive to the conclusion of their deck’s energy stage, I often obtain a shrug and/or clean stare (or discover articles that beat across the bush). I’ve requested a number of folks at completely different gamestores, however discovered no clear reasoning to date, so I get the sense it is extra of a intestine feeling than a transparent calculation.
Query
Is there a tier system of some type? If doable, I want to see clear and concrete pointers for the right way to calculate the ability stage of any deck. If that is in the end a intestine feeling based mostly on sure parameters, a information for ranking my decks with this intestine feeling is far appreciated.
Instance
For readability, an instance may work. As an example I’ve Samut, Voice of Dissent as my commander. The first win situation is smashing face for commander injury, making her stronger with equipments and auras, with the assistance of some large trampling creatures. There’s fairly some ramping choices, however there’s hardly any card draw within the deck. There’s one potential infinite combo in there with Godo, Bandit Warlord and Helm of the Host, and about 4 elimination playing cards for coping with threats from creatures, enchantments or artifacts. The deck comprises a few land fetchers (corresponding to Renegade Map, Traveler’s Amulet, however no tutor playing cards.
In case it issues for answering this query, I am principally involved in:
- Commander
- informal play (successful just isn’t my most important purpose)
- multiplayer
