Responding to the call for embracing mêtis in the classroom, this piece puts scholarship on embodiment and emergent gameplay in conversation with one another to explore a potential means of cultivating "mêtic" intelligence in the composition classroom by empirically examining how the open world game "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BOTW)" scaffolds "mêtic" intelligence and encourages "mêtic" strategies in its players. Founded in Jay Dolmage's understanding of "mêtis" as a means to turn the tables on those with greater "bie" (brute strength) and Karen Kopelson's use of "mêtis" as a means of subtle resistance, this piece takes a mixed methods approach and utilizes interview data to see what design elements of "BOTW" may be able to be brought into composition course design to help cultivate cunning in our students both inside and beyond the classroom.