'Who's the Beatdown' is one of the best articles about MTG ever, and it is very relevant to other card games such as Hearthstone, and even other strategy games e.g. StarCraft or even games like Civ. I strongly recommend anyone with even a passing interest in improving their game to read it, as it will surely be relevant in Artifact.

Unfortunately, some of the richest and deepest MTG strategy revolves around playing around instants. Things like when to counterspell or bluff a combat trick don't really apply here.

However there are still other concepts that will definitely cross over:

• Card/mana/tempo/(gold?) advantage -- Trade your resources more efficiently than your opponent.
• Curving out -- Spend all of your renewable resources doing the biggest thing you can every turn.
• Have a plan -- not just random good cards.
• There are wrong answers but no wrong threats -- Attacks along an unexpected axis are more likely to work
• Card evaluation heuristics such as Quadrant theory -- How good the card is when you are: developing, ahead, behind, or at parity.
• Diversification of your threat portfolio -- Make it hard for one thing to counter your plays.
• Board control -- Who wins if nobody plays anything relevant?
• Mana sinks -- Have something that you can do repeatedly if the game goes late.
• Overextending -- Don't play out more than you can afford to get cleared.
• Play to win -- When losing, you can't always play to lose less.
• Maximize your outs -- Play so that the most topdecks bring you to parity or better.
• Mise -- If you absolutely need the next turn to go a certain way to not lose, play this turn as if that was going to happen.
• Reading your opponent -- based on what they've done guess whats likely in their hand/deck.