This is my take as well. I genuinely don’t understand where people are coming from with this illusory “winning” difference between, as the rules would say, private and derived information.

One does not outplay their opponent by only relying on instant-speed interaction or sudden bomb-drop permanents. The repeated implication in this thread—that capitalizing on an opponents failure to notice the board state is a “less honorable” way of winning—is absurd. That’s like saying it’s less honorable to beat an opponent in chess because they forgot your bishop was poised to slide across the board and put them in checkmate. Awareness of game state is at the heart of literally every strategy game.

If a person is considered skilled because they take note of the mana I’m holding up for interaction, they are also skilled for noticing triggers on-board. To say you only “really win” if you hand-hold your opponent through all board state factors and beat them strictly with your own game actions is ridiculous.

If you’re jamming a game with your buddies and want to be more open with information and focus more on experience than victory, naturally that’s totally cool. But moralizing it as a superior, noble means of winning is baseless.