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Level One: Role Assignment

Reid Duke

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Wizards of the Coast

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2015

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🇬🇧 English

FundamentalsSideboarding
intermediate
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Who's the beatdown in this matchup? Reid formalizes offense/defense role assignment and the traps of getting it wrong.



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