Game Theory and the Game Theory of Magic

Game theory is this idea that if you can formalize, okay, what are the moves that this person can make in this interaction? Is this action, how much utility or how big a score do they get out of that positive or negative? And then you try to figure out if you're given the series of possible actions and the possible outcomes. But game theory is also both competitively and cooperatively a large part of how like I think the proper model of the world is in general.

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