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Midrange decks strike a balance between proactive and reactive play, leveraging efficient threats and versatile answers to outlast faster strategies while pressuring slower opponents. They excel in pivoting between aggression and control, often using incremental value engines to gain a commanding board state.
Turbo decks prioritize explosive speed, aiming to execute game-winning combos as early as possible by utilizing fast mana, card draw, and tutors. These decks sacrifice resilience and interaction for raw velocity, aiming to overwhelm opponents before they can stabilize.
Stax decks focus on disrupting opponents’ resources and actions by deploying taxing effects, lockdown pieces, and resource denial. They thrive on slowing the game to a crawl, creating a controlled environment where their own win conditions can be safely executed.
Control decks aim to dominate the game by answering threats with counterspells, removal, and board wipes while drawing cards to maintain a full grip of answers. Their win conditions are often slower and secondary, as they focus on exhausting opponents' resources to take over the game.