Which color(s) do you all use (or used to) when you play a real life game of Magic?
I haven’t played in years, but I tended to gravitate towards Red and “go for broke” in my playing. Basically tried to output as much damage as fast as possible but have no defenses up. Really overwhelmed a lot of inexperienced players and even caught veterans off-guard when they didn’t expect it.
When players started to catch on to my tactics and started to play Blue and/or Green, my backup Black deck that swarms the board with tokens was a perfect counter to their counter
I’ve always played black. Very casually. Only play with friends and family so our decks were all legacy. I play a vampire tribal deck with a lot of return creature from graveyard.
Oooh good question! My fav color combo in paper is blue/green, as I like the control and card draw of blue and the big beats of green. My favorite color shifts a bit from set to set, I think my current favorite is green. Prior to that blue was number one. In order I think I like green most, then blue, then red, then black, then white.
PQMTG is a bit different. Red & Green are definitely my strongest colors, due largely to rares & mythics. I also like the way they play. Blue is definitely my weakest color, though I enjoy my 2 color blue decks a lot. White is still my least favorite color though. White weenies and boring humans don’t do much for me
Nice! White is totally viable, don’t get me wrong there. Back in the day (all of 2 years ago when the game was new) my strongest deck was Gideon. Knight of the White Orchid basically tanked the deck, creating a nearly unbeatable blocker.
I like all the colors for their uniqueness and strengths, I just find the other colors a little more interesting.
I primarily ran Boros during my playing days. I gravitate towards aggro and tempo. White weenie was something I gravitated toward in Revised and never looked back.
This is probably why I’m so easily frustrated by objectives that force me to wait, rather than allowing me to simply kill my opponent as quickly and efficiently as possible. “Kill 3 or more enemy creatures” is like pulling fingernails.
Indeed. Perhaps I was unclear, so I’ll expound a bit, hopefully not derailing the thread:
It has nothing to do with the actual killing of enemy creatures. Killing them is easy. My frustration is that the objective is counter to both my playstyle and red’s strengths. By forcing me to wait until enemy creatures are cast, it detracts from the thrill of playing red, especially against those decks that have minimal creature counts.
It artificially prolongs games. It turns a 3-minute match into a 15-minute exercise, during which I could have won three times over if I wasn’t being forced to sit there, card after after card, hoping the AI drops something for me to immediately kill–or, if the deck is creatureless, finding out that it was a total waste of time altogether.
It’s similar to the green objective of “summon 3 or less creatures”. It’s taking the planeswalker’s strength–oftentimes the reason a person plays the color–and deliberately neutering it.
Do you find Blue is the best color to combo with others? Whenever I build multi-color decks I include Blue unless the deck was built specifically for another purpose.
@ElvaanStrider I started with blue-white waaay back when and then switched to pure blue control. I tend towards fiddly decks that might not be the most winningest. Also, I’m kind of a jerk so I favor red’s land destruction and I love cats so, you know, white is a good color for that.
For me, it’s not always about winning, you know? I love the social aspect of staying up too late deckbuilding and testing strategies but I can’t fit that into my life anymore.
That’s where this game and my slack community comes in. I have the game AND the friends to geek out with, right on my phone.
I think it’s this way for a lot of us which is why we’re so passionate and vocal about the game. Although, I always prefer to focus on the positives, after spending this year on the forums, I understand some of the negative voices better.
Sure, but please note that my statement was that green’s strength is creatures, and that “summon 3 or less creatures” is directly counter to that strength. I did not say, “you can only win in green by summoning lots of creatures”. Kiora’s been proving that for over a year. =)
When I play competitively, I’m usually in either azorius or esper. I don’t like competitive play anymore, though. When I play commander, my favorite decks have green and white in them. I like white because it’s got a lot of things you can do with it and green because a turn 3 Vorinclex makes me giggle. Also really like vengevine. Like waaaaay too much.
