Magic The Gathering: What Is An Aggro Deck?
For Magic The Gathering players who like to hit fast and often, aggro decks are the way to go. Who needs carefully-considered control strategies of a sense of pacing when you can smash your opponent in the face with a dozen goblins?
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Despite the stereotype of being the "no thoughts, turn cards sideways" archetype, there is a lot more to aggro decks than you may have expected. Here is everything you need to know about MTG's aggro archetype, and what makes them so deadly.
Aggro (short for 'Aggressive') decks are focused on dealing numerous, smaller smacks of damage as quickly as they possibly can. Their goal is to outpace the opponent and take them out before they've had the chance to even build up a defence. However, they're different from burn decks in that aggro decks deal their damage mostly through combat, rather than the direct-damage spells of burn strategies.
In a lot of ways, aggro is the 'purest' form of Magic: the entire game revolves around going to combat and swinging with creatures, and aggro decks are all about exactly that. What defines an aggro deck most is its speed, as this archetype tries to win as quickly as possible with lots of low-cost creatures and other disposable tokens over having a handful of large, heavy hitters.
It's an effective strategy, but this is also aggro's biggest weakness. If a game drags on too long, you'll often find an aggro deck "runs out of gas" – that is, as soon as your opponent builds up a defence, you may struggle to punch through it. Aggro trades long-term options for early-game tactics, and struggles if it can't claim the upper hand in the early turns.
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