In Magic the Gathering, there are quite a few ways to gain card advantage. However, card advantages does not always means just drawing more cards than your opponent. In this article, we will showing you the different kind of card advantage to add your deck stratgey and how to gain them.
Card selection advantage
Cards that helps you to search for other cards makes your deck more consistent. This kind of advantage is extremely helpful to combo and control decks. Searching for the missing combo cards that can help you win the game at that point of time or find the answer to destroy your threat is always welcome.
Demonic tutor, Diablolic tutor and Survival of the Fittest helps you gaining this advantage.
Simple card advantage:
This is card advantage in the rawest form. To achieve this card advantage, you cast spells that can help you draw more cards from your library or make your opponent discard cards or destroy his permanents. Tidings and ancestral recall helps greatly in drawing cards.
To make your opponent loses card, you can make discard his hand or destroy his permanents. However,if you are using 1 card to destroy 1 card, it isn't that effective. It has be 1 card for 2 cards or more. Or that spell can destroy 1 permanent and also allow to draw 1 card. In this case, you are leading in card number, and thus having an advantage.
Virtual card advantage
The hardest to look out for but also one of the most powerful card advantage in the game.
Powerful spells or creatures that has effects that limit your opponent's options. Creatures like Serra Angel and Archangel can not only fly and attack, but also block smaller creatures to save some life points.
Spells like the Moat will cause only flying creatures can attack you. If your opponent does not have flying creatures, he will never able to deal damage to you.
In the above example, you and your opponent does not lose any cards. But because of the effects, your opponent has restricted options or unfavorable combat situations.
These 3 kind of card advantage, simple, selective and virtual card advantage, are the most commonly used strategy to win your opponent. As the game progress and evolved with more and more game mechanics and new powerful cards appearing. Understanding the different kinds of card advantage is getting more and more
Manferd is an experienced player in Magic the Gathering. He started playing Magic the Gathering ever since 1997 and expose himself with all kinds of tactics and strategy related to this addictive card game. He runs a personal Magic the Gathering blog which he research and share his knowledge and tips about this wonderful card game. To take advantage of his knowledge and experience, make sure you check out his blog at magic-sg.com
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