I'm pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to the drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is mood swing strategy.

So I've been playing mood swings for a long time, 28 years. And I've learned a few things about the general strategy.

One of the things that I appreciate about the game is, even though it is pretty simple to learn,

there actually is a decent amount of strategy in it.

And so today, I'm just going to walk through some primer of some basic things to learn when you are playing mood swings.

Okay, so let's begin.

I'm going to begin with sort of how I look at the game from a structural standpoint when I'm thinking of strategy. So there are two different categories of cards, what I call point cards and what I call control cards.

Point cards pretty much are worth four or more.

And what they do is they get you points.

They're worth points.

They're the cards that help you win the game

because the goal of the game is have more points than your opponent.

So point cards mostly just, they rise you up.

They get you a higher point total.

Then we have what I call control cards.

And control cards come in two groups.

One is cards that sort of help you deal with your opponent stuff.

They either put it in the discard pile under the deck in their hand.

They get rid of it.

They get it out of play.

Or they could suppress it.

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