The proliferation of different ways to play Magic: The Gathering are a good thing for the game, as the new set shows.
was all about Jumpstart, a format where you take two themed sets of 20 cards and smush them together, a streamlined way to try out a manageable number of new cards, and the one I was playing when I got killed by a tree.
If you crack open a booster and see a bomb like Chandra, Hope's Beacon , or Glissa, Herald of Predation , you're obliged to build your deck around them rather than having the freedom to choose other options. If you don't, or if you get unlucky and don't score any bombs while other players in your group do, you'll probably lose immediately when you come up against them.
Normally games of Commander start slow, with three or four or however-many players who don't want to be the first to attack someone and seem like a big meanie the other players should gang up on. Battles give you something to do in those cautious early turns without making a target of yourself. Then, when you flip them, whatever reward you've just earned is probably something you can go on a proper offensive with, moving the match into its more aggressive phase.
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