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The power to manipulate the study of games and strategy. Sub power of Mathematics Manipulation, Logic Manipulation, and Causality Manipulation.

Capabilities

User can manipulate game theory, the study of "games" (actual games, a business, boxing, essentially anything that involves strategy) and how the strategy changes throughout them.  The user can change the dominant strategy and induce an equilibrium.

Applications

  • Always win in actual games, such as chess or poker.
  • Change the dominant strategy of a game to make something that wouldn't normally be a good

idea to become the best possible strategy.

Techniques

Associations

Limitations

  • Game theory is the study of strategic decision making, and manipulating it can only change how the decision affects the strategy of a game. The user cannot make running slowly become the dominant strategy of a race, nor can they make not trying become the dominant strategy of an arm wrestling contest.

Known Users

  • Red Knight (Forgotten Realms)

Videos

Why_do_competitors_open_their_stores_next_to_one_another?_-_Jac_de_Haan

Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan

a good video to explain the basic idea of game theory

Game_Theory_101_The_Prisoner's_Dilemma

Game Theory 101 The Prisoner's Dilemma

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