Play to Win; A player's guide

Subject: Play to Win; A player's guide Sun Nov 30, 2014 10:06 pm

http://www.sirlin.net/ptw/
Im not big on strategy guides, or reading too much anymore for that matter however, as i grow as a player i find myself struggling to get past those better than me, and realizing that, you can play as much as you like, but there is only so much you will really take away from any given game, regardless of how good it was. If you're flying solo with no senior to guide you you really only have the option of putting your nose to the grindstone for a while and seeing what works. In some rare cases(those with alot of talent) this is all that is needed. I'm not one of those cases, and the players that i do know STILL study strategy guides(Joshua Graham studies all kinds of guides, ive asked him recently what he did in this situation, and he gave me a similar answer)
So getting to the point, this book has tons of relevance for us as players. The philosophies within span across almost every game known. After looking through it a bit, chapters i would recommend reviewing are:
The art of war, sections
1 Deception
2 the sheathed sword
6 study the details of the enemy
7 yomi: spies of the mind
Advanced players guide,
What makes the best player?

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Sun Nov 30, 2014 10:42 pm

looks great but who tf reads books willingly nowadays?

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:18 pm

I'll do p much whatever it takes to get better bruh.

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Mon Dec 01, 2014 1:50 am

this translates to: META META META HIT DAT TIER 1 NIGGASSSS

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:18 am

Is it owned by konami and does it cost $8476783498648793984756?

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:57 am

experience is everything

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:59 am

Gabriel wrote:: this translates to: META META META HIT DAT TIER 1 NIGGASSSS

David Sirlin, Playing to win, 'What makes the best player?' wrote:: Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn, the lesson that every Magic player seems to have to learn over and over, is that there are great cards that come together to make great decks that ultimately do not win because they aren’t as good as something else that’s out there. It’s easy to get excited when you see a great deck come together, but the “great deck” does not exist in a vacuum. Very often, there is some completely different deck that’s trying to do completely different things, and that other deck is ultimately stronger than yours. It’s not that yours is bad per se, but the opportunity cost of not playing the even better deck is just too high. It’s all about the relative value of the decks, not their absolute measures. Even when you’ve learned that lesson and have found the actual “best deck” to play in a given card pool, you still might be foolish to play it. You also have to judge the “meta-game,” which is the landscape of deck choices all your competitors have made at a given tournament. Perhaps they all know about this “best deck” and have all decided to play decks that do nothing at all but beat that deck. Sometimes, the “best deck” can still win even when subjected to extreme hate, so again it’s all about judging the relative value of the pieces.

Subject: Re: Play to Win; A player's guide Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:14 pm

This book seems to be the s**t

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