# Reflection Template For Samwise Cat

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: After each game, identify whether the result came from the Samwise Gamgee plus A-Cauldron Familiar engine, Marionette Apprentice or Umbral Collar Zealot drain pressure, creature combat, opponent disruption, or failure to find a payoff.

- Mulligans: Record whether the opening hand had green mana, an accelerant such as Birds of Paradise or Gilded Goose, an engine card, and a payoff or selection spell; flag keeps that had food without a closing plan.

- Mana: Track missed colors for Samwise Gamgee, A-Cauldron Familiar, Marionette Apprentice, Umbral Collar Zealot, Chord of Calling, Birthing Ritual, Collected Company, and Naktamun Shines Again. Note when Starting Town, Mana Confluence, Nurturing Peatland, or shock lands caused life-total pressure to matter.

- Velocity: Ask whether Chord of Calling, Birthing Ritual, Collected Company, and Naktamun Shines Again found relevant material quickly enough, or whether the deck spent too many turns adding small creatures without advancing a kill.

- Engine assembly: Log which missing piece delayed the deck most often: Samwise Gamgee, A-Cauldron Familiar, Marionette Apprentice, Umbral Collar Zealot, a food source, or sacrifice access through Bartolomé del Presidio or another visible legal action.

- Removal and disruption: Check whether A-Haywire Mite, Path to Exile, Abrupt Decay, Darkstar Banisher, Phyrexian Revoker, Dauthi Voidwalker, Endurance, Deafening Silence, and Archon of Emeria answered public cards that actually changed the game.

- Sideboard impact: For each post-board game, ask whether added role cards improved the matchup or diluted the creature density needed for Chord of Calling, Collected Company, Birthing Ritual, and convoke math.

- Closing: Review games where the deck stabilized but lost later. Determine whether the agent should have tutored for Marionette Apprentice, Umbral Collar Zealot, Samwise Gamgee, A-Cauldron Familiar, or Naktamun Shines Again sooner.

- Role accuracy: Mark turns where the agent should have switched roles between combo, sacrifice midrange, hate-piece pressure, and defensive stabilization based on visible board state.

- Mistakes: Flag sacrifice, convoke, attack, block, or priority decisions that removed a needed combo body, exposed a payoff to obvious interaction, missed lethal drain, or passed with a meaningful legal action available.

- Stranded cards: Track cards stuck in hand because of mana, timing, missing targets, or low impact. Separate true stranded cards from cards correctly held for a later legal window.

- Overperformers and underperformers: Count game-winning or game-saving appearances for Samwise Gamgee, A-Cauldron Familiar, Marionette Apprentice, Umbral Collar Zealot, Chord of Calling, Birthing Ritual, Collected Company, Naktamun Shines Again, Badgermole Cub, Juggernaut Peddler, and each sideboard card.

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