Physics and Magic (now with no gravity jokes!)

For a long time, we've talked about three things as though they were disparate, but related parts of a whole. These things are:

Card advantage
magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=3992

Tempo
www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010924a
www.classicdojo.org/b981/bou.980325eta.txt
www.classicdojo.org/b983/bo.980609edt.txt

The Philosophy of Fire
archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/lo/301
archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/lo/299
archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/lo/297

Some very wonderful people have written some very smart things about these subjects, working to define them, and evaluate how they could win you a game of Magic. Then, that really smart guy wrote this:

The Grand Unified Theory.

That was cool, but it still didn't connect all the dots for connecting purposes.

Then this thing got wrote.

The Theory of Everything.

Please read these article, probably in order that I've linked them. They're incredible and will shape the way you think about the game interactions.