Color Combination Tour, Part 0: Intro
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Posted on Oct. 26, 2014, 8:11 p.m. by Starn
Welcome to your tour: Mission Briefing
There are 31 color combinations in Magic.
Do the math:
There are 5 Mono colors
There are 5 Allied dual-colors
There are 5 Enemy dual-colors
There are 5 Allied tri-colors
There are 5 Enemy tri-colors
There are 5 Quad-colors, each lacking one color
There is 1 combination with all of the 5 colors.
So, that's
5+5+5+5+5+5+1=
10+10+10+1=
31
I want to write at least one article for each of those combinations, complete with deck examples. I'll need help with some trouble areas of deck-building- mine are:
Control
Midrange
Black-Red
Black, unless it's just splashed
Splashing (wait, what?)
Sideboarding
And: Other
Let me know if you would like to see this happen.
If you would like to have your deck in here, let me know. I need them
Again,
NOW HIRING: DECK SUBMISSIONS
I will present the colors like this:
Mono colors, WUBRG. (white, blue, black, red, green)
Dual colors, all of one color, then the next. WUBRG.
Tri colors, center color WUBRG, enemy color WUBRG.
Quad-colors, lacking color WUBRG.
And, the finale: the Spectrum Combination.
Thank you for your time.
Programmer_112 says... #3
This is a good idea. I approve.
Also, clarification: Where are these decks going to come from? Are they going to be directly modified versions of specific submitted decks, or conglomerates of submitted decks, or original decks using submitted decks as inspiration, or something else entirely?
October 26, 2014 8:19 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #5
Thank you for explaining that math to me. I appreciate it.
Having trouble building two of the four prominent archetypes in Magic is a problem. I'm not sure people would want to read future articles if that's how you preface yourself.
October 26, 2014 8:33 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #6
Question: where would a Karn, Silver Golem EDH deck fit ?
October 26, 2014 9:13 p.m.
CommanderOfBolas says... #8
I have a fun Grixis control deck right now. Are you looking for standard decks or what? I can also submit a standard u/w control and u/b control list if you'd like. Are you looking for specific archetypes for each color combo? do you want an agro, midrange, and control deck for each color combo? Some of these clarifications would help greatly.
October 26, 2014 9:49 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #9
Honestly, I think the 32nd color combo is colorless.
October 26, 2014 9:54 p.m.
A), Thanks
B), I've got no idea what "conglomerates" are. As for the question, they'll probably be either modified or inspiration. The decks will be linked.
A), Thanks
B), I like the deck. I might just use the deck without changing anything XD.
A), Thanks
B), Was that sarcastic? Otherwise, you're welcome.
C), It's harder to build control for me than midrange. Or, I just haven't tried hard enough. Oops. Anyway, I want to be completely honest, so that you will know what I have problems with.
The four main archetypes of Magic : Aggro (beats control by killing them before threats); Midrange (beats aggro by getting greater threats); Ramp (beats midrange by getting threats out faster); Control (beats ramp by lasting longer)
A), Oops. I forgot colorless. I think it could fit in between the lacking green quad-color and the Spectrum Combination finale.
B), An EDH deck is a deck. It'll fit there.
A), See above, dude. Well, this was posted after, so...
A), OK, sorry. I didn't clarify. So, what I want is:
A deck
Any deck that fits the color combination
EDH, MDN, STD, I don't care.
Any archetype
B), Thanks for the reminder
Thanks for the feedback!
Just in case, you can start submitting the monocolors for everything, before you forget.
Or, heck with that. Grixis Control sounds good. They're going into the "Color Combination Tour Decks" folder.
October 26, 2014 9:56 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #11
Very confused on what your addressing me with bro. I was simply saying Karn decks in my experience play in the style of Blue.
October 26, 2014 9:59 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #12
The four major archetypes of Magic are Aggro, Midrange, Control and Combo, by the way.
October 26, 2014 10:06 p.m.
Programmer_112 says... #13
A conglomerate is like putting a bunch of parts of different things together to form a new thing. I was wondering if you were just going to mash a bunch of decks together and see what happened. Anyways, it looks like you'll be doing 32 color combos, including colorless (there's actually a good mathematical reason for this, namely 32=2 (number of colors in magic), but it doesn't really matter). That's a lot, and might take a long time. How often do you expect to be able to put out a new article?
October 26, 2014 10:41 p.m.
Thanks Starn, I'm always tweaking the deck though so keep an eye on it! I'm currently toying with the idea of including Mass Calcify and possibly even End Hostilities in the sideboard against monoG devotion-type decks, which would make my sideboard pretty transformational (I could include even more removal to make the deck a semi-control shell).
This seems like a pretty ambitious project, btw. I would suggest consolidating some of the color combos. For example, do one article for each color, then do an article about the four 2-color combinations of one color, then an article for the three combinations of another, etc. Maybe then do one article talking about all the wedge colors, then another for all the shard colors.
Definitely don't do the quad color combinations. It's not really applicable to anything except splashing, so you should do an article on splashing colors in general. 5-color is so broad that you can't go into a lot of details - same thing for colorless. There are no color-specific strengths or weaknesses for 5c or colorless, so do one article talking about pros and cons those types of decks generally have (5c needs a lot of mana fixing, but has access to high-powered spells; colorless is somewhat limited in card selection, but gains access to loads of colorless mana accelerants).
October 27, 2014 2:18 a.m.
You're right, they do!
Crap. i forgot combo and put in ramp instead.
Thanks for the definition. Yeah, some might be conglomerates.
Good idea, Goody. (whoa)
Who wants to have >=32 articles and who is fine with just what Goody mentioned?
Yeah... Quad colors. Basically, they all lack one component of the 5 colors. No blue, no counters, probably more proactive than reactive. No black: good creature removal isn't there. No- wait, am I spoiling?
October 27, 2014 3:45 p.m.
CommanderOfBolas says... #16
Do you want me to post my deck here, or on your wall, or what? Also, do you want me to write up a primer of sorts for grixis, or do you plan on doing that sort of thing yourself?
October 27, 2014 4:17 p.m.
You can post your deck here, or on my wall, or what. You can write up a primer of sorts for Grixis if you want. i'm all for community projects.
October 27, 2014 4:23 p.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #18
A primer for Grixis, eh? Shall I get started on my primer for green, then?
October 27, 2014 4:37 p.m.
Sure. Big monsters, undercosted creatures. I just repeated the same thing. Crap. Primer time!
October 27, 2014 4:42 p.m.
CommanderOfBolas says... #20
Okay. Ill post the deck here, then ill get to work on my primer. Ill post it in the deck description when it is finished
Starn says... #2
How's that for my first article? Bad?
October 26, 2014 8:11 p.m.