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Wax allies with the smallest team. If there are two teams with 1 person, he could ally with one, but that would make the other the smallest team - and then he'd ally with them. So if we understand this properly he'd either be in no alliance or stuck perpetually switching between them.

OK, but we don't actually know how autobalance works. We think we know how it works. But we also thought that having a magic knife in our game-zone would be harmless fun.

We've made a lot of assumptions and 'figured the optimal solution out' many times. It's just as easy to assume that Wax doesn't count for his own autobalance function, or any other manner of problem that would throw a big ol' cat-shaped wrench in the plan.

I find it highly unlikely Grind will ally with Rein. If we do this, it may also force both of them to try to ally with our triple entente and make it a 4v2, rather than trying to convince one of their teams to take us and make it a 3v3.

While sensible numbers-wise, I can't imagine Wax or Grind/Rein will be happy with that solution for their own assorted reasons. Who says that that aligns with their actual goals? Their first response to this idea will probably just be 'No, that's not how the game works'. This has happened in response to basically all of our choices in this adventure, and whether it's just blind intuition or pattern recognition, that's what I see coming if we ally with M&M and try to win the numbers game.

Also, Grind and Rein don't have to ally for them to want to fight us before they fight each other.