

In episode 178 of the Fairy Tail anime they start the final game of the Grand
Magic Games. Master Mavis has come up with one strategy out of, according to
her, millions of possible outcomes. It shows them coming up with it the night
before. However, they say at the beginning of the Magic Games that no one will
know what the game is before they announce it, so how did they have all of the
night before to come up with a plan?


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How does Mavis form her strategy for the Grand Magic Games if they didn't know what the game would be?


Your question requires two answers. First, everyone knew that the last day
would be a battle royal between all members of all teams; I don't know exactly
when it was first mentioned but before it happened we saw the contestants
talking about how excited they were for it a few days in advance of the
episode happening. To answer the second part of your question I am going to
have to say that they used SAW logic with Master Mavis. To explain in more
detail in case you aren't familiar with the SAW franchise, it revolves around
a character named John Kramer who is a civil engineer who is very talented at
predicting human nature and sets up conditions and anticipates how people will
react, from his deductions he creates elaborate plans and traps and watches as
people make all the moves he predicted. Master Mavis was dubbed the "Fairy
Tactician" because she was able to predict human nature giving her a very good
idea of how people would react to their circumstances and then she formed her
plans based on how she believed everyone would react to the battle royal and
for the most part it played off; we do see, however, that she was not able to
predict the 3 way battle of Erza, Kagura, and Minerva as she has a mental
breakdown that she failed to predict Minerva would interfere however for the
most part she predicted where the opponents would head to and when they would
head to where they were going.


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