Being a better player

Again, I'm taking a break of talking about cards. This time we're going to talk about a thing far more decisive than cards in the game: the player.

In a way, in a duel between 2 decks of equal potential, if a player does every move exactly as it supposed to be,no misplays and no bad choices and he/she still loses, there's only luck to blame. If there is at least one misplay, the player has the total right to blame himself/herself (although he/she shouldn't take it too seriously, it's a game, after all). If both players do misplays, the overcome of the duel is just chaotic, so it would be best if in these games there was a judge or a spectator with enough knowledge to point out the misplays.

But, in a tournament, no matter what level it is, there are some other conceptions that makes the game different than casual one. We can see this while playing some decks:

Counting with your cards

Most players who try to play meta decks without any knowledge of how those works usually have some problems, mostly because of the card's rulings. However, most players that keep doing that or when some try for their first time building a different deck of their own, they often don't know a simple basis of what makes a deck resilient is not which card you put, but how the card works in the deck.

We will start looking at a, somewhat, forgotten card: