Mulligans
LSV's pragmatic take on mulligan decisions — less theoretical than Chapin, less systematic than PVDDR, but delightfully direct.
Lost to link rot — no archive.org snapshot exists, and the LSV articles index on the strategy.channelfireball.com subdomain has no entry for it. If you have a copy, please reach out on GitHub.
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