Today, I am back with
an article, I am going to discuss...
The Repetitive Thinking, It Hurts Your Game!
What I mean is, I want to discuss how the average player
thinks during a match, and how it is most likely hurting
their game.
Example.
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Player A Summons Black Luster Soldier in Attack mode,
and removes Player B's face down monster from play,
setting 2 Magic or Traps, and ending his turn.
Player B draws, and summons D.D. Assailant, and
announced an attack against the soldier, intending to
rid the field of it. Player A responds by activating
Book Of Moon on the D.D. Assailant, thus, saving his
monster.
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I just made up this theoretical scenario. I want you to
re read it. Read slowly. Now, do you notice any mistakes
from either player? No? I didn't think so. It was a
great idea for Player A to derail the attack by D.D.
Assailant, by activating Book Of Moon.
Look closer.
Player A made one. When Player B summoned his D.D.
Assailant, he ordered it to attack Player A's Black
Luster Soldier, when he did, Player A promptly Book Of
Moon'd the attacking D.D. Assailant. A very smart move
to save his soldier, wouldn't you say so? Well, the
better move would have been to activate Book Of Moon on
Black Luster Soldier, so then, the D.D. Assailant would
crash into Black Luster Soldier, causing Player B to
lose more then just his attempt and killing the soldier.
800 life points, to be exact.
While some players would have not made this minor
mistake, there are MANY more that WOULD have.
Now, why didn't Player A not think of this? Clearly he
is a good player, many good Regional and Shonen Jump
finishes etc. Why did he make that mistake?
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People get used to doing the Same.Thing.Every.Time.
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Its VERY simple logic. My opponent attacks me, I have an
answer. Obviously, without blinking once, I flip over
Book Of Moon. Problem solved! In the example above, it
DID solve the problem, but not as efficiently as it
COULD have. Which, in the long run, translates into x-2
at a large tournament, instead of x-1.
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"Hmm. My opponent is trying to attack me, I don't want
it to happen, I have a Book of Moon face down. I should
use it to stop that attack!"
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Player A obviously has been playing the same old game
mechanics he has been using in his deck for a long time.
Simple right? To simple. He barely even thought before
deciding on what to do! If he thought out of the box, he
would have realized how much of a better idea it would
have been to book the soldier, instead of the assailant.
I can only think of one way to fixing this problem, stop
playing with the same cards over and over and over
again. Try something new, try new tech, try under rated
cards, cards that use different mechanics...Whatever!
Just change your play style and deck up for a while. You
want to be able to use all of the cards in your deck to
their fullest! Open up your mind, and you can.
The next time your playing, when your opponent does
something, and you know _exactly_ what to play or do, re
think it for a second. See if there is anything ELSE you
can do, that would benefit you more. It will help you in
the long run.
I hope this article made since to you, and I hope it got
across what I am trying to..Well, get across ;P. Its
very early here, 5:00 AM to be precise, and I haven't
slept in hours, cut me some slack ;D.
I will have a similar article up within the next week,
following up on this one...But for now, peace!
-Rj
PS: I would like to give a special thanks to Kris
Perovic of Team Overdose, for helping me out while
writing this article!
