"Better than One:Consripting Coach"

"Better than One:Consripting Coach"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

If you have been playing any format of magic for any amount of time in public or in a group setting then you probably have experienced people whom I have called Coach Jawo in a previous article. These are people who seem to hover behind your back , tsk tsk tsk when you make a bad move, give unsolicited advise about how you should proceed with your game or even give you advise about your deck...while you are in a game. You know most of these people by their opening statement , "Alam mo dapat may..."

Magic is full of well meaning people and Coach Jawo types really do have a lot to share , of course it is great to get advise but sometimes you just want to say to that person. "Ok. Eh di ikaw na maglaro." Up until this point there has not been a card that lets you do that. Until this card was printed.

Better than One let's you tap that annoying Miron at your back who seems to want to pilot your deck more than you do. So for a green and white mana , a person from outside the game becomes your teammate. You can give any number of cards from your hand , library or permanents you control on the battlefield and they become his hand, library and permanents respectively.

You can enjoy a game with them or better yet , you want to play with my deck so badly , go ahead play with my deck. That didn't seem to come out right. So let me say it in Tagalog, "Gusto mong tumira. Ayan. Ikaw na tumira."

Still didn't seem right but then again you already know what I mean right? So all Mirons beware. We can conscript you now. And like good old Sonny J. You could also be our playing Coach.