Reading the Resource Curve

In Your First Deck: A Checklist, step two asked you to map your resource curve. That single bullet point carries more weight than any other item on the list. The resource curve is the heartbeat of your deck. Read it wrong, and even the strongest cards in the arena cannot save you. What the resource curve is Your resource curve is the distribution of card costs across your deck. Line up every card by cost — zeroes on the left, your most expensive finishers on the right — and the shape that emerges tells you how your deck performs across the arc of a session. ...

May 21, 2026 · 3 min · Jeffery Jensen