# Reflection Template For Izzet Wizards

For each loss, name one primary cause and one secondary cause.
For each win, name the card, package, or tactical policy that most contributed to the win.
Classify each result as a card quantity problem, card selection problem, mana problem, tempo problem, matchup problem, sideboard problem, pilot sequencing problem, or closing-power problem.
Report mana performance, sideboard impact, stranded cards, overperforming cards, underperforming cards, and whether the Deck Strategy or Tactical Policy guidance was followed.

- Deciding factor: Identify whether the game was won or lost by early creature pressure, spell velocity, mana friction, interaction timing, sideboard cards, or failure to close after the first damage burst.

- Mulligans: Record whether the opener had a castable early threat from Monastery Swiftspear, Soul-Scar Mage, Emberheart Challenger, A-Cori-Steel Cutter, or Stormchaser's Talent, and whether keeping a threat-light hand with Opt, Flashback, Swiftspear's Teachings, or interaction created enough pressure.

- Mana: Check whether Steam Vents, Spirebluff Canal, Riverpyre Verge, Island, Mountain, and Multiversal Passage sequencing produced red on turn one and blue when Boomerang Basics, Opt, Force Spike, Counterspell, or Annul mattered.

- Velocity: Track whether Opt, Crash Through, Flashback, Swiftspear's Teachings, and Stormchaser's Talent found action or merely spent mana without changing the race. Card text check required for any exact Flashback, Swiftspear's Teachings, Stormchaser's Talent, or A-Cori-Steel Cutter conclusions.

- Engine pressure: Record whether A-Cori-Steel Cutter and Stormchaser's Talent demanded answers, generated repeated advantage, or were too slow against the opponent's visible clock.

- Creature performance: Note which of Monastery Swiftspear, Soul-Scar Mage, and Emberheart Challenger dealt early damage, forced awkward blocks, or sat exposed to removal without enough spell follow-up.

- Pump and combat: Review whether Monstrous Rage and Crash Through were used only when damage, trample, survival, or lethal pressure justified the risk from visible mana and stack information.

- Removal and reach: Count whether Chain Lightning, Boomerang Basics, Abrade, Pyroclasm, Scorching Shot, and Counterspell affected the key permanent or stack window, and flag cases where they were held past the turn they would have changed combat.

- Sideboard: Record whether Annul, Force Spike, Soul-Guide Lantern, Abrade, Counterspell, Hexing Squelcher, Pyroclasm, and Scorching Shot had visible targets or windows, and whether any narrow card was stranded.

- Closing: Ask whether the deck converted the first ten damage into a forced clock, or whether it spent late turns casting low-impact cantrips while the opponent stabilized.

- Role: Identify whether the pilot correctly stayed tempo, became control, or pivoted to burn reach from visible life totals, legal attacks, and stack threats.

- Mistakes: Flag any pass with useful mana and legal pressure, any creature attack that lost the only clock under a short clock, and any interaction spell aimed at a replaceable target while a stronger public threat was visible.

- Overperformers and underperformers: List exact cards that created wins or losses, separating main-deck cards from sideboard cards so tuning does not confuse matchup context with card quality.

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