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Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds cover artvsWarcraft: Orcs & Humans cover art

Magic: The Gathering - BattlegroundsvsWarcraft: Orcs & Humans

Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Magic: The Gathering - BattlegroundsWarcraft: Orcs & Humans

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans leans harder on optimization: Build orders and economy timing dominate

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

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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans