The Top 5 Lessons I Learned as a Pro That Completely Changed My Game

Over the course of my career, I’ve learned many valuable lessons that have shaped my understanding of the game of Magic: The Gathering. Today, I’m going to talk about five moments that produced lessons that I consider pivotal to my growth as a Magic player and that happened after I was already an established pro player - so this isn’t an 8 year old Paulo learning about mana curve, this is multiple-PT-Top-8-Paulo finding out he still had a lot more to learn from some of the best to ever play the game.

Lesson 1: Everything You Do (And Don’t Do) Conveys Information to Your Opponent

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A very long time ago, I was playing a friendly Magic 2011 team draft against Ben Stark. This was when Ben had just come back from a big hiatus, so he had the habit of narrating his internal thought proce...