What color really gets your blood pumping and gets you excited when you wail on your opponent? Surely everyone has got a color that they think is just the dog diggity !
Perhaps you think that blue with all the counter spells and return to hand cards are what gives you the edge. Just when your opponent plays a spell to wipe you, you throw down a counter-spell and just totally throw that strategy out the window. Or maybe they attack with a super-mega creature that breaks through your strategic defense so you simply make the creature disappear from the playing field and return back to the hand of your awestruck opponent.
Maybe, you're the Magic: the gathering player that believes in truth, nobility, and serenity of your paper subjects and choose to play with the color white. And why not? White has a lot of good tricks in their hat. I mean what's not to like about disenchanting your opponents creatures or get rid of an enchantment that could make him impossible to beat? Or gaining more life than they can deal damage. Or maybe just to be able to get a lot of small creatures out and attack early with more creatures that there has been turns? I have to admit that white is one of the strongest colors in my own opinion.
One of the strongest decks that I have ever played against didn't even have creatures in it. Magic: the gathering has a good market as long as they continue to print the burn cards with the color red. Red is deemed as the burn color using such cards as Incinerate and fireball, which deal damage directly to your life total. When you have a deck that is focused on this ability it is hard not to win. You don't need creatures with this type of strategy. All you need to do is keep your mana pool up and make sure that your life total doesn't get to short. Burn decks aren't impossible to beat, but requires some thinking and strategic choices.
Perhaps black is the color of choice for the Magic: the gathering player such as yourself indulges in. Vampiric spells and death magic, what a combination! Sure, why not I'll sacrifice creatures to gain to my life total. I would also play spells that steals life from one player and adds that amount to my life total, what's not cool about that. "Oh, you're attacking me with four creatures and I have only one defender? Well let me see, I will play 3 shallow graves and return 3 creatures from my grave yard to play and use them to block your attack". You might just be the necromonic being that loves controlling droves of undead skeletal and zombie warriors to do your bidding.
The one color that Magic: the gathering put into this game that in my opinion is the best one yet! GREEN! Yeah baby! Green has it all!
Green has the weenie creatures to get out early and the massive power creatures to pummel your opponent with later in the game. It has the life gaining ability and the ability to mass produce creatures. It has damage reduction and protection. Believe it or not, It even has counter-spells. Destruction and construction. It can disenchant and deal damage directly to your life total. It can even regenerate creatures to keep them from dying.
With these different colors and special benefits special made for each of them, that Magic: the gathering developed in the game, which color would you choose to be your favorite?
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Post a CommentIf you're having proplems with opponents flying creatures, you could add some Ghostly Prisons they have to pay 2 to attack you with EACH CREATURE. Pretty awesome. It's a white remake of blue's Propaganda. You could also throw in some gain life spells, or an enchantment/equipment that gives your creature lifelink (when it deals damage, you gain that much life.) Just find something that'll protect you while you're attacking them with your knights.
yah person i answered to um i thought you wanted a defense for green well my brother has a time spiral deck now the trick with flying.......well white and blue are supposed to be the best flying decks well anway those artifacts you can pay like 3 mana to turn it into a flying creature a 2/2 with first strike until the end of your turn i have a blue deck and my brother makes me mad by doing that and well yah thats a out it or buy somz more cardz =)
I have no idea what color to choose and i'm on the verge of killing myself i bought a 10th edition blue islands core set and i've taken like 5 whats your color tests and i STILL dont know i got 2 reds 2 greens and 2 blues on my TEST THINGYS RRRGGGGHHHH
.............oh andT.M get some green land and get some spiders theyll wipe out those flying baddies like their nothing
oh and i not a fan of black. bye bye
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Good article, we clearly see you love green. I'm not surpised you see it as the strongest color though because my cousin who's 1st deck was green has a hard time...losing. An T.M.Meacham, the strgety of the knight deck is to attack as soon as you can before ur opponent can set up his defense. Just attack and attack, make sure your creatures don't get run over though.
Right now I'm still a learner, but I'm playing with the new Time Spiral knight deck -- I love white. I'm also a fan of elf decks (green) but I really can't figure out the strategy to my knight deck. It's great that all my guys have flanking and that I have Gaze of Justice in there, but what the heck do I do against a deck with all flying creatures?! :( I added some Serra Avengers, but they don't help.
This is a great article. I enjoy the colors of blue and red when I play MTG. I enjoy using a lot of direct damage, counterspells, and unblockables. Thank you for sharing. This is a very well written article.