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Battlefield: Bad Company cover artvsMagic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds cover art

Battlefield: Bad CompanyvsMagic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds

Battlefield: Bad Company leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield: Bad CompanyMagic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Battlefield: Bad Company leans harder on execution: Vehicle and infantry gunskill across big maps

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds leans harder on optimization: Spellbook construction and mana curves are solvable

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds