# Reflection Template For Paradoxical Outcome

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.

- Match result: Record the public turn, phase, and legal action that decided the game. Classify the deciding line as Paradoxical Outcome engine, Time Vault plus Manifold Key, Karn, the Great Creator pressure or Mycosynth Lattice access, Tinker into Blightsteel Colossus, planeswalker advantage, Balance reset, opponent hate permanent, opponent combo, creature pressure, or mana failure.

- Mulligans: Check whether each keep had at least one realistic plan from visible cards: fast artifact mana plus payoff, colored mana plus interaction, tutor plus mana, or sideboard hate plus a clock. Flag keeps where Force of Will or Force of Negation lacked a blue card, where Mox Opal lacked artifact density, or where Leyline of the Void was kept without enough follow-up pressure.

- Mana: Track whether Tolarian Academy, Black Lotus, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Sol Ring, Lotus Petal, Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Mox Pearl, Mox Ruby, Mox Emerald, and Mox Opal produced decisive tempo or stranded colored spells. Note every game where Ancestral Recall, Balance, Demonic Tutor, Paradoxical Outcome, Teferi, Time Raveler, or Yawgmoth's Will was delayed by color access.

- Velocity: Identify which card-flow pieces converted into action and which stalled. Review Ancestral Recall, Brainstorm, Sensei's Divining Top, Stock Up, Thundertrap Trainer, Timetwister, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Narset, Parter of Veils, Snapcaster Mage, and Yawgmoth's Will for cards gained, mana spent, and whether the follow-up mattered.

- Engine commitment: For every Paradoxical Outcome, record returned nonland permanents, floating mana, cards drawn, protection available, and whether waiting one turn was safer or fatal. For every Yawgmoth's Will, record graveyard resources, mana available after casting it, and whether the line ended the game or merely recycled low-impact spells.

- Tutor quality: Review Demonic Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Merchant Scroll, Karn, the Great Creator, and Urza's Saga by the card or artifact selected and the next two turns of payoff. Flag tutors that found power without protection when interaction was visible, or protection without a real clock when the opponent was ahead.

- Interaction quality: Record what Force of Will, Force of Negation, Flusterstorm, Mental Misstep, Vexing Bauble, Consign to Memory, Swords to Plowshares, Prismatic Ending, Portable Hole, Otawara, Soaring City, and Pithing Needle answered. Mark whether each answer stopped the opponent's decisive window, protected this deck's decisive window, or traded for a low-impact action.

- Sideboard impact: For each post-board game, record whether Leyline of the Void, Grafdigger's Cage, Soul-Guide Lantern, Consign to Memory, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Swords to Plowshares, Prismatic Ending, Portable Hole, Tinker, Blightsteel Colossus, or Mycosynth Lattice affected the public game state. Note any sideboard card stranded by mana, timing, or lack of a target.

- Closing discipline: Check whether the deck chose the fastest safe closer available from public information. Compare Time Vault plus Manifold Key, Karn, the Great Creator plus Mycosynth Lattice, Tinker into Blightsteel Colossus, planeswalker advantage, Time Walk pressure, and repeated Paradoxical Outcome turns.

- Mistake review: Flag missed land drops, premature fetches, unnecessary artifact exposure before Balance, weak Force pitch choices, avoidable Mana Crypt damage races, and passes with legal engine or protection actions available.

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