Control decks need to be able to set up consistently, but they also want to remove as many unnecessary consistency cards from the deck as possible, both to make space for disruptive cards, and to remove potential late-game bricks that would prevent control decks from being able to reliably respond to the opponents plays while under hand disruption
I still to this day have books from that period where Im listing out Magic decks I want to make, or Im working on my own ideas for trading card games. A Warhammer 40K trading card game that Miller co-designed in 2001 with Luke Peterschmidt has roots in that era
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