Do you consider kassai to be a pure control or defensive deck and not worthy of the title midrange?
This is a great question that in reading back the article I think I could have been more clear about!
I think that all FAB decks play with a 'midrange playstyle' in mind of both attacking and blocking, so it's not a necessarily needed label. Decks like Kassai I would refer to more generally as Defensive, and then from there we can add other more useful descriptors like Combo. So Kassai can be thought of as Defensive Combo, Oldhim could be Defensive Disruptive or Defensive Fatigue. Basically the idea is to consider larger buckets for Aggro/Defensive and then try to characterize their main play pattern or win condition from there.
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