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Okay, guys, today we are talking evasion. So what is evasion? Why is it important?

So invasion is the term that R&D uses to talk about anything that helps you get through to what we call board stall to get to

your opponent. So one of the inherent things, so magic is built pretty cool. You know, there's a

mana system that over time things get bigger and bigger, and so the game evolves. But one of the

inherent problems as the game evolves, as the board, the battlefield evolves,

is you start what we call it sort of board lock.

You start like, at some point, I have enough creatures and you have enough creatures,

that it starts becoming hard for one of us to attack each other.

And the reason is one of the sort of core things of magic is, it just turns out it's a little

easier to be defensive than offensive.

That, you know, because the opponent blocking gets to choose how they block, there's a,

you know, there's a lot of advantages to blocking.

And that one of the things that's really challenging is in order to attack, you have to There's a lot of advantages to blocking.

And that one of the things that's really challenging is in order to attack,

you have to have a worthwhile attack.

And so there are, you know, sometimes my attack is good because my things are bigger than your things.

And even if you block my things, my big things will destroy your small things.

There are reasons that even with, you know, sort of a board stall,

that you can attack under certain circumstances.

But in general, there often comes a point where strategically,

it just doesn't make a lot of sense to attack into your opponent's forces.

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