# Reflection Template For Katara, Waterbending Master

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: Record whether the game was decided by early tempo, a protected Katara, Waterbending Master turn, a resolved card-flow engine, a single stack fight, commander-tax pressure, or failure to close after stabilization.
- Mulligans: Note whether the opener had two or more usable mana sources, at least one early blue interaction spell, and a plan beyond reactive cards; flag keeps that lacked Brainstorm, Consider, Opt, Impulse, Peek, Thought Scour, or a cheap counter.
- Mana: Track whether Cavern of Souls, Gemstone Caverns, Mystic Sanctuary, Otawara, Soaring City, Sink into Stupor, Hydroelectric Specimen, or Sea Gate Restoration improved sequencing or stranded blue interaction.
- Velocity: Ask whether Brainstorm, Brainsurge, Consider, Opt, Impulse, Consult the Star Charts, Peek, and Thought Scour found land, interaction, or a closer, or merely spent mana while the opponent advanced board pressure.
- Engines: Mark whether Katara, Waterbending Master, Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel, Saiba Syphoner, Talion's Throneguard, Wan Shi Tong, Librarian, Astrologian's Planisphere, or Magic Damper generated meaningful advantage before being answered. Card text check required for Saiba Syphoner, Talion's Throneguard, Wan Shi Tong, Librarian, Astrologian's Planisphere, and Magic Damper before treating exact output as proven.
- Interaction: Identify which counters were live when drawn: Spell Pierce, Wash Away, Stifle, Force Spike, Counterspell, Memory Lapse, Mana Leak, Tale's End, Force of Negation, Mystical Dispute, Long River's Pull, Spell Snare, Change the Equation, Concerted Defense, Stern Scolding, Remand, Annul, Glorious Gale, and Cryptic Command.
- Removal and bounce: Record whether Fading Hope, Witness Protection, Into the Flood Maw, Stern Dismissal, Brazen Borrower, Unable to Scream, Tishana's Tidebinder, Octopus Form, Unsubstantiate, Bounce Off, Venser, Shaper Savant, Cyclonic Rift, and Otawara, Soaring City answered the correct threat or only delayed an unavoidable board state.
- Protection: Check whether Shore Up, cheap phase protection, Essence Flux, Fresh Start, Spell Pierce, Mana Leak, Counterspell, and Force of Negation protected the permanent that mattered, not merely the first targetable permanent. Card text check required for Fresh Start.
- Closing: Log whether Temporal Manipulation, Cyclonic Rift, Cryptic Command, Subtlety, Vendilion Clique, Venser, Shaper Savant, Brazen Borrower, Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel, or Katara, Waterbending Master converted control into lethal pressure.
- Role: After each game, decide whether the pilot correctly became control, tempo, combo-protection, or emergency stabilizer based on visible board state and public information.
- Mistakes: Flag missed land drops, Brainstorm without a useful shuffle or setup reason, Mystic Sanctuary without a high-value graveyard target, tapping low before a known threat, or countering a low-impact spell while a visible payoff remained likely.
- Stranded cards: List cards stranded by timing or target restrictions, especially Annul, Spell Snare, Stern Scolding, Mystical Dispute, Change the Equation, Glorious Gale, Wash Away, Stifle, Tale's End, Subtlety, Force of Negation, Sea Gate Restoration, and Temporal Manipulation.
- Sideboard: Confirm that no outside-card or card-removal action was proposed, because the registered sideboard is 0; any between-game change must be strategic guidance only.
- Overperformers and underperformers: Name exact cards that repeatedly won stack fights, stabilized combat, drew into action, or failed to line up with visible threats.

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