Nothing at the table escapes notice.

Prim has been circling the Winds and Dragons section for weeks, and this issue is the proper treatment. The section is about supply, not strategy, and the read on the deal has to happen earlier than almost any other section on the 2026 card. Prim walks through: tile scarcity, joker management, and the defensive read for the player who is watching someone else build the section quietly. Around the strategy: a tablemate-reading question that touches the deepest etiquette of long-term tables, the League president who built the card's institutional discipline, and the first televised American Mahjong program in 1951. Subscribe at https://www.orderofthetile.com.