Dies to Removal

Never ascribe to sarcasm that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Just because you are obviously beatdown doesn't give you an excuse to overextend into board wipes.

That's true, there are some decks that are, game 1, a giant pile of answers and 2 copies of 1 big beater, and I have no idea how to play that as beatdown (unless it's a R/X control deck where you start throwing burn at their face), especially in UB and UW (and especially esper)

I remember the years of the faeries, some people made "control" variants that were still very fast.

If you aren't think about it at least once per round it's not enough.

This is one of the most important things you will ever read in your magic playing career.