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+authors: Doishy
+banner: /assets/personal-tutor.por.jpg
+title: Different Perspectives - How a different view can help accrue advantage
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+
+## Introduction
+
+The idea for this article has come from two different places. First of all was
+discussions with someone in the community on how they could identify whether
+they were facing poor variance, running a *sub-optimal* deck list or making play
+mistakes after an unfortunate run of leagues. The second source was watching a
+stream / vod of another player (Monkeyscantcry) where some interesting scenarios
+came up. In each, they played very well and were rewarded for that play but
+within each there were some small decision points or alternative routes
+available to them that went unnoticed. It was only because I was removed from
+the direct action (as an audience member) that I was fortunate enough to be able
+to consider the alternative play pattern and let them know.
+
+Because of these interesting scenarious and consideration on how to improve ones
+own play I would like to discuss the benefits of play review, what makes for
+informative watching in terms of streams and to discuss some examples that were
+spotted.
+
+## The Article Series that Never Was
+
+The very first article I wrote for this site was called [Doomsday by Committee,
+Setting the Scene](/articles/2018/01/03/doomsday-by-committee/). The intention
+of it was for a group of players to view a scenario presented and give their
+impressions and thought processes behind the decisions. The idea was of course a
+complete rip-off of the TES *Infernal Tutoring* series. Due to alternative
+interests in what to write, lack of enthusiasm from other players to help and a
+generally niche playerbase at the time anyways the series never actually took
+off beyond this first article. I think that this sort of series would still have
+been useful and someone recently approached me for doing this sort of thing
+again (but has probably forgotten and dropped the idea) however these days we
+have a lot of good options as an alternative for exploring play options and
+patterns.
+
+The first port of call for the Doomsday community should always be the Discord.
+We have dedicated puzzles channels for asking on pile building and play
+scenarios but plenty of people ask ad-hoc questions on how they would sequence
+opening hands and whether someone would keep or mull in a scenario. If in doubt
+just feel free to ask with a screenshot. It might be you already have the answer
+and just want confirmation or you feel a little out of your depth and would like
+a guiding hand. Asking for help is never a bad thing and the community is very
+welcoming and constructive in their responses.
+
+The second port of call is watching streams or videos where people are
+describing their thought processes. A good number of content creators can be
+found in our [resources appendix]() but I want to highlight Nevilshute as one
+who consistently makes very informative videos in which they articulate their
+thought processes well within and help give an idea as to why they build their
+lists in certain ways and why they make certain play choices. If you watch his
+videos you can ask questions in the comments and he is always responsive with
+thorough replies so you should be in good hands!
+
+Another good player for this is emidln aka bja aka Adam4300, They will often be
+found streaming in the Doomsday discord, normally at US friendly times. They
+tend to build from scratch their list in each stream and talk through what they
+are playing with and around from their opponent. Discord streaming has a huge
+advantage in being able to have instantaneous 2-way verbal communication without
+delay, unlike twitch, and thus if you are watching you can either chime in with
+alternative play suggestions or ask for more information on any decision points
+you are unsure on.
+
+The third point of call is having a go at your own content creation. This is
+sort of like an amalgamation of the previous 2 points. If you stream or make
+videos of your play, whilst verbalising your decision process, you can both help
+internalise these decisions to yourself by making you defend and reason each one
+and also offer up a perfect avenue for others to comment on your play patterns /
+decision making and offer tailored advice for where you could improve or seek
+alternative lines.
+
+Make own stuff Example of my own EW run Benefits of building own deck SB
+guides - why you should write them and ignore them Scenario 1: MCC stream Daze
+2: BS into Narset SW beats. 3; ????
+
+End.
+
+
+We knew Predict was correct IU bad.
+Wrong.
+We knew card disadvantage from PT and LDV was bad.
+Wrong.
+We knew that you should only run one Oracle.
+Wrong.
+
+
+Scenario. Vs infect. They have trop, nexus tapped.
+You have , sea. You ponder see Doomsday, Force, 
+Ritual. Your hand is ritual, daze, brainstorm, edge, delta.
+
+
+What's the play? Brainstorm into the DD plus force then go off
+Edge into force and go off? 
+
+
+
+Post Doomsday Vs ur Delver. 
+You have one card left in library and cast oracle
+Off cavern. They bolt the oracle. What's the play? 
+
+"Guys i am very new to doomsday, what is the ideal pile if you are gonna go t1 dark ritual into doomsday?"
+-Darthdog
+
+"What is the best list/default list/best style?"
+-Many people over time
+Is an impossible question
+
+- Why is it impossible to answer such simple generic questions with the deck.