Candy Coated Coloured Chaos
Posted by Danny the awesome | Filed under About me, General Mtg Chat
Hi there everyone
Today I would like to talk about the different colours of mana. So to do this we need to break down what each colour is commonly used for and what their weaknesses are.
We’ll start with one of my favorite colours Black. Black mana represents zombies, vampires and the unholy elements to magic, leaving the impression the mages who weld it have made pacts with arcane forces.
This was best represented in older black cards that would involve you paying life to play certain spells and this took a certain sort of skill when choosing to play spells. Its weakness to other colours lies in the fact that it’s rather slow in comparison to red decks and lacks ramp like green decks. It’s generally bedfellows with red to add the nastiness of speed together with some of the best instant removal ever made. A slightly stranger match is black and white, kinda like the odd couple shown below,
Now that combination of removal and cheap creatures can prove devastating as I have shown in my dark blade deck.
Right that’s enough about black mana lets now focus on its polar opposite white mana. White mana is seen to be more a holy linking with angels and spirits in contrast to black’s deals with the unholy. Now white hasn’t really changed that much since early magic, it uses small cheap creatures and damage prevention to win the day just as it always has done. White mana by any means isn’t dull it has board wipe cards and excellent removal spells that can cause whole sale destruction to your opponent.
Kind of like the picture below just more metaphorically
White tends to be paired together with green as to create rampaging angelic monstrosities really quickly and efficiently. It also goes well with blue in control decks, the continuous sweep kick kind of player loves these decks, that match up is one of the most effective deck types in the whole of magic. The only weakness of what it some of its creatures are really weak and could be easily crushed under foot by massive green creatures.
That’s enough on white why don’t we take a look blue mana next. Blue mana consists of the best control spells ever printed, counter spell = win 
, it also centers on the depths of oceans and is known for having some of the biggest creatures second to green mana.
Kind of like the sea monster shown below.
Blue mana tends to go with well with white or black for various types of control decks but has sometimes been used together with green to create other interesting types of decks. Blue decks main weakness could be the lack of acceleration for its larger creatures so it could easily be left in the dust of fast red decks or mana accelerating green decks.
Well only two more types of mana to go so let’s start with green mana. Green mana is the best kind of mana for assuring you’re able to play your spells. This is done through acceleration spells like rampant growth. Green also sports the largest creatures and favors abilities like trample. Green mana could also be linked with nature and its brutality.
Green tends to go well with white but also goes well with red to make nasty ramp decks.
Greens main flaw is that it lacks any creature removal or canceling spells so if a threat hits the table your just got to hope you can crush your opponent underfoot rather than relying on removal.
The final colour to talk about is red which is also another favorite of mine. Red mana, the power of boiling volcanic fury, grants its wielder the power to walk past defenses and lob spells straight at an opponents face. Red mana favorites small creatures and direct damage to greens big creatures but that’s not say they don’t have big threats like dragons!
Red tends to go well with green, green red ramp decks, or with black for black red nastiness.
Reds only weakness I feel is stalling or dealing with life gain as your goal when playing red is to kill your opponent quickly and not allow them to gain a strong footing in the match.
Well that’s all we have time for today, if you have any comments please post below or email me at stefan_d_durie@hotmail.com
Thanks for reading and stay frosty
October 26, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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October 26, 2011 at 3:37 pm
I say, these descriptions are quite interesting
October 26, 2011 at 3:47 pm
I’m glad you think so, i do try to make things more interesting than other mtg sites.
October 26, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Well, you failed.
October 26, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Horribly written. My 11 year old Sister can write better. Also, this article makes me wonder if you actually play Magic. “Greens main flaw is that it lacks any creature removal or canceling spells.”
Autumn’s Veil, Prey Upon, Ranger’s Guile, Prey Upon, Vines of Vastwood, Beast Within, need I continue?
You mention that blue “is known for having some of the biggest creatures second to green.” Sure, Blue gets retarded guys like Leviathan, but I’ve never heard anyone else associate blue with big creatures. Blue usually pairs with another color for creature support, or plays dorky little guys like Merfolk or Fairies.
And about black being “slow” and not having ramp, have you read Dark Ritual?
October 26, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Touch harsh tbh given your example of cards are pretty poor, blue isnt really a support colour, nor are fairies or merfolk dorky little guys given fairies was the best deck in type 2 and merfolk are a really strong legacy deck. Black is slow, dark ritual hasnt seen the light of day in years.
Before you bound in spouting crap bear in mind the op from everything he writes about is a fairly casual player.
October 26, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Fairies was the top deck, but how many actual fairies did it run? The best card in the deck (bitterblossom) wasn’t even blue, it was black.
And I never said dorky little guys can’t be effective. But explain to me how a 1/1 flier is anything but little and dorky.
Merfolk is a good deck, but it’s full or dorky little efficient creatures. I never said blue was a bad color, just that it wasn’t known for big fatties.
Most black legacy deck lists I’ve seen run Dark Ritual.
October 26, 2011 at 9:17 pm
I’m sorry you feel that way. I didnt ask you to read my website post. Now really do you need to be so hostile if you have a differing opinion than mine. I can clearly see you havent read my website before as i use and know of beast within in deck building. However green has fewer removal spells compaired to say white, red or black thats just fact. The last true removal spell for green was desert twister that was a 6 cast sourcery, if you dont know that then look it up before spewing your bile on my website.
I’m happy to engage with people about my posts if they disagree but theres no need for insults.
October 27, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Seriously?
Write one up yourself I wold like to read it.