╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
║ ║ ┃ ┃▒
║How do you want to║ ┌──No────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▶┃ Burn ┃▒
║ win the game? ║ │ ┃ ┃▒
║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ I'll either win │ ║Do you want to win║ │ ║ How many ║ ┌─No──▶┃ Zoo ┃▒
├─▶│ quickly or fall │─────────────────────────▶║ with creatures? ║───┴──Yes──▶║ creatures? ║ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ behind. │ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ └──────────────────┘ ╚══════════════════╝ ╚══════════════════╝ ║ ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ║ Do you want a ║ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ┌▶║ budget deck? ║──┤ ┃ ┃▒
│ │I'll make big mana│ ║ Do you like ║ │ │ ║ ║ └─Yes─▶┃ Stompy ┃▒
├─▶│ to play huge │────▶║ playing with ║───No──────────────────────────┐ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ threats early. │ ║ colorless cards? ║ ▼ │ │ A few good │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ └──────────────────┘ ║ ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ├─▶│ creatures. │─┘ ╔══════════════════╗ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ╚══════════════════╝ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ║ ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ ┃ Tooth and Nail ┃▒ │ ┌▶║ Elves or Robots? ║ ┃ ┃▒
│ Yes ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ║ ║ ┌───▶┃ Affinity ┃▒
│ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ │ A whole lot of │ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ▼ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ├─▶│creatures at once.│─┘ │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ └──────────────────┘ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ ├────Robots───┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ║ Eldrazi or ║ ┌─Planeswalkers─▶┃ RG Tron ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ║ Planeswalkers? ║────┤ ┃ ┃▒ └─▶│ One is enough. │ └────Elves────────▶┃ Elves ┃▒
│ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ └──────────────────┘ ┃ ┃▒
│ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │I'll find and play│ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ║ ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ a specific combo │ ║ And if you don't ║ └─Eldrazi───────▶┃ W/B Eldrazi ┃▒ │ ║ 20 damage or 10 ║ ┃ ┃▒
├─▶│ of cards that │────▶║find your combo...║ ┃ ┃▒ └─▶║ poison counters? ║──────┬───Poison──▶┃ Infect ┃▒
│ │ simply win. │ ║ ║ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ └──────────────────┘ ╚══════════════════╝ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ │ I'll gain small │ ║ Creatures or ║ ┌─Counterspells─▶┃ Scapeshift ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ├────▶│advantages card by│────▶║ counterspells? ║────┤ ┃ ┃▒ └───Damage──▶┃ Bogles ┃▒
│ │ │ card until I do. │ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ └──────────────────┘ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ │ I'll either win │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ├────▶│ quickly or fall │────▶┃ Soul Sisters ┃▒ └─Creatures─────▶┃ Kiki Chord ┃▒ ┃ ┃▒
│ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ behind. │ ┃ ┃▒ ┃ ┃▒ ┌──Yes───▶┃ Storm ┃▒
│ │I'll deny them the│ │ └──────────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┃ ┃▒
├▶│ resources they │───────┐ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ need to win. │ │ │ │ I'll play small, │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ └──────────────────┘ │ │ │efficient threats │ ┃ ┃▒ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ ├────▶│ and stop their │────▶┃Kiki-Exarch Combo ┃▒ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ │ │ answers. │ ┃ ┃▒ ║ Do you like ║ ├──No────▶┃ Ad Nauseam ┃▒
│ │ │ └──────────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ┌───────────▶║ puzzles? ║─────────┘ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ║ ║ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ │ │I'll play threats │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ ├────▶│ and answers that │────▶┃ Abzan Company ┃▒ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ │ │are hard to stop. │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ║Many creatures, or║ ┌──Many───▶┃ Living End ┃▒
│ │ │ └──────────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ║ just a few? ║────────┤ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ Spells ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ▲ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ │If I don't find my│ ║ Creatures or ║ │ │ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │I don't care about│ │ └────▶│combo, I'll lose. │────▶║ Spells? ║─────┴─Creatures────────────┘ ├───Few───▶┃Goryo's Vengeance ┃▒
│ │ winning, I just │ │ └──────────────────┘ ║ ║ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃▒
├─▶│want people to say│ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ "What was that?" │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▶║ Which resources? ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ └──────────────────┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ║ ║ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ ┃ ┃▒ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ▼ ┌────Too many───────────▶┃ Zombie Hunt ┃▒ │ └──Plants─▶┃ Dredgevine ┃▒
│ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ ║ Do you want a ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ║ budget deck? ║─────┐ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ║ ║ │ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┃ ┃▒
│ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ├────Very few───────────▶┃ Belcher ┃▒ ├──▶│ Their hand │────▶┃ 8-Rack ┃▒
│ │ Yes │ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ │ ║ ║ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ├──▶│ Their lands │──┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ └────▶║ How many lands? ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ └───No─────────┐ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┌Yes───▶┃ Cheerios ┃▒ ├──▶│ Their draws │─┐└─▶┃ Blue Moon ┃▒
│ │ I'll gain small │ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┃ ┃▒
├▶│advantages card by│─────┐│ ║ ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │card until I win. │ ││ ║ But really... do ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ └──▶│ Everything I can │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ └──────────────────┘ │└────▶║you like winning? ║───────┤ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ └──────────────────┘ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒ │ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ ╚══════════════════╝ └─No───▶┃ Mill ┃▒ ▼ └──▶┃ Lantern Control ┃▒
│ │ ┃ ┃▒ ╔══════════════════╗ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒ ║ ║ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║Do you want to use║ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ ║ your graveyard? ║ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ ║ ║ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ┌─▶┃ Hate Bears ┃▒
│ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ ║ ║ ├────No─────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ │ ║ What's your win ║ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ┌──────────────────┐ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▶║ condition? ║ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ │ I'll play small, │ ║ ║ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │efficient threats │ ╚══════════════════╝ └────Yes──────▶┃ Loam Pox ┃▒
├─▶│ and stop their │────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ answers. │ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │ │ Attacking with │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
│ └──────────────────┘ │ ┃Flow chart by Kerrick Long.┃█ ├──▶│ animated lands │─┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ┃ ┃█ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ ┃ https://kerricklong.com ┃█ │ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │I'll play threats │ ║ Aggressive or ║ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛█ │ └▶┃ Jeskai Control ┃▒
└─▶│ and answers that │ ┌───────────────▶║ controlling? ║ │ █████████████████████████████ │ ┌──────────────────┐ ┃ ┃▒
│are hard to stop. │ │ ║ ║ │ ├──▶│Dragonlord Ojutai │─┐ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
└──────────────────┘ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ │ ▼ │ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
▼ │ ┌─Controlling──┤ ╔══════════════════╗ ╔══════════════════╗ │ │ ┃ ┃▒
╔══════════════════╗ │ ▼ │ ║ ║ ║ ║ │ ┌──────────────────┐ └▶┃ UW Control ┃▒
║ ║ │ ╔══════════════════╗ │ ║ Creatures or ║ ║Many creatures, or║ ├──▶│ Mindslaver │─┐ ┃ ┃▒
║ Tarmogoyf: ║ │ ║ ║ │ ║ instants? ║───Creatures──▶║ just a few? ║ │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
║ Yea or Nay? ║ │ ║ How good is ║ │ ║ ║ ║ ║ │ │ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
║ ║ │ ║ Lightning Bolt? ║ │ ╚══════════════════╝ ╚══════════════════╝ │ ┌──────────────────┐ │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
╚══════════════════╝ │ ║ ║ │ │ │ └──▶│ Tasigur │ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ │ ╚══════════════════╝ │ │ │ └──────────────────┘ └▶┃ U Tron ┃▒
┌────────Nay─┴─Yea──────┘ │ └Aggressive─┐ │ └──┬───────Many─────────┐ │ ┃ ┃▒
│ ┌────────Great─┴─Meh─┐ │ └─Instants───────┐ Few │ │ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛▒
▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ └─────┐ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
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┃ BW Tokens ┃▒┃ Jund ┃▒┃ Abzan ┃▒┃ Wilted Abzan ┃▒┃ UR Delver ┃▒┃ Temur Delver ┃▒┃ Merfolk ┃▒ └──────▶┃ Grixis Control ┃▒
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