Editing Fishbowl

'''Fishbowl''' play, also occasionally called '''goldfish''' play, is an informal game term for playing without [[Interaction|interacting]] with your opponent in any meaningful way. You're playing as if your opponent was a pet fish in a bowl. Playing solo and simply skipping all of your nonexistent opponent's actions and turns can be a useful way to see how reliable your Free Peoples deck sets up in early turns, or whether your hand is likely to [[clog]] with unplayable situational cards.

Alternately, the term can be used derisively to refer to a '''fishbowl deck''', a deck strategy that involves simply ignoring your opponent and executing a game plan regardless of what they do. A Shadow deck that does all of its damage (be it [[wound]]s, [[burden]]s, or [[discard]]) in the [[Shadow phase|Shadow]] and [[Maneuver phase]]s offers the Free Peoples player little chance to prevent that damage, since such a deck probably doesn't care if its minions die in the [[Archery phase|Archery]] or [[Skirmish phase|Skirmish phase]]s. These decks are often not very strong, but playing against them can be an [[NPE]].

This term comes from [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Goldfishing the Magic: the Gathering community]. In that game, testing to see how fast you can win without interacting with your opponent is somewhat more useful.

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