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Why?

Depends. A deck review is better if the deck is a characterless. A card review is better if it's the buckler.

I definately think that a deck review is better, as young players can learn good combos, identify what is good and bad about a deck, and use some parts of a deck for their decks.

For deck reviews, I did write out a few posts about the different styles of decks with their pros and cons a couple of years ago.

deck reviews are better. unless you can make cards into a cohesive deck, single cards are worthless.

They're different. Card reviews are more for almost-there players to fine-tune their understanding of how cards can work together. Deck reviews are for scrubs who need to acquire a basic concept of what a good deck should look like and why.

I think both are good for different reasons. (something like what Pol said)

Deck reviews tell a lot about how to build deck and what works/what doesn't work for deck building

Card reviews can help players learn combos and ways to use cards together that could help with both deck building and playing (it doesn't help if you put 2 cards in your deck that work really well if you combine them in a certain way but you don't know how to do it)

Basically deck reviews are good for general deck building while card reviews are good for tweaking decks and strategy.