Magic The Gathering Mana Color

By Philip Wong

You need a good deck to fight your opponent in Magic The Gathering. You need to choose a good Mana color for your deck that suit your own playing style and strategies. In the old tradition Magic game, different mana colors have totally exclusive abilities. For example, you can only cast blue spells if you have blue mana only. But the new game play allows the players to cast spells of a different color for a little bit more mana cost. Moreover, there are usually more limitations and requirements you need to be aware of when doing so.

Magic cards are separated by 5 different colors: White, Black, Green, Red and Blue. Cards of the same color have inherent empowering effects on each other. One ability would make the other stronger. On the other hand, cards with different colors would impose limitations on each other when used together.

Many experienced players do not like single colored deck because of the disadvantages of using single color. The ways of attack of a single color is limited and therefore more predictable for the opponent. This is a huge disadvantage because this would allow the opponent to easily cancel our attacks. Also, using a single color means you cannot take advantage of the strengths of the other colors.

The good news is that the Magic game is ever-changing. There are expansion sets which include new cards that allow one mana color to use other color spells. Balancing the power of different colors.

A multi-color deck is not so easy to handle well. Blindly mixing many different color cards would bring yourself into the worst situation possible because the chance of getting bad draws greatly increases. Like the situation when you have black lands producing black mana only but all cards in your hand are white. You will be sitting and waiting for death.

Finally, we know that multi-color deck can be very powerful in the sense of the diversity of attacks and the combination of the advantages of each color, but the skill level required to do it well is high. We recommend beginners to first stick with single colored deck first. Once you learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of different mana colors and the possibilities of combining them. You may go ahead and build your first multi-color deck. But remember that these kind of multi-color magic cards are not cheap! - 31409

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