My friend and I can't figure out why you think the Al-Ghuls are Black/Green instead of Black/White. Can you elaborate?

They are very much about controlling the natural order of the world. I will say their third color is white.

Why is green, the color of accepting your place in the natural order, the color of magically improving creatures? For example there are many green spells where a small animal is made to beat a predator by magically growing bigger. Isn't this against green's philosophy of the natural order?

Growth is one of the tools of green. Note that each color has different elements, and every card of that color doesn’t need to hit every element.

This is my first time pitching a question so honestly I’m a bit nervous and I hope you see it. So lately I’ve been doing a lot of research about the colors both mechanically and philosophically, and a lot of that involves reading your articles and listening to your drive to works, and I have a question regarding Green. Does Green’s philosophy hate all technology. I’ve always kind of assumed that it ends up not liking a lot of technology because it prizes the natural order of the world/universe/plane/multiverse as the ideal state and in the eyes of some Green aligned characters a lot of technology would mess with everything’s natural purpose. That and we’ve seen Green characters use technology, such as on Kaladesh, and characters like Nissa don’t go around smashing every building they see. I’ve always assumed that while a Green aligned character can hate all technology such an idea isn’t a requirement to fall under Green philosophically speaking. I was just hoping for some clarification or an answer because I couldn't find, or don't remember, if this was explicitly stated to be the case or not anywhere.

Green, as a default, is distrustful of technology and generally is happy to destroy artifacts. This can vary world to world, and there are natural artifacts that green does like.

Okay so, since It's been a week now I think it's safe to ask: What colors are Thanos? I've been thinking UG since he really doesn't strike me as all that black, maybe even WUG with his whole "saving everyone through balance and restoring the natural order, but planning for everything" deali-o. What does Mark think?

Movie Thanos is white/black. He tortured one daughter to get information out of the other daughter. That’s pretty black.

Thematically Homunculi second color seems like it should be green. They just seem to be magical and driven my natural order.

They are artificially created creatures. Green seems like the least likely second color.

Green's summarized statement of "Growth through Acceptance" still feels a bit off. No Green character (outside Blue/Green) actively pursues growth, they accept growth as another part of the life cycle. From how you've defined Green in the past, their only active pursuit, is their preservation of culture, family and the natural order. Preservation/Conservation through Acceptance would define that the best.

Growth implies that they want the current system to continue and thrive.

"They are characters more about acceptance of the world as it is. Usually a Green protagonist is trying to stop change." But doesn't Green accept that change is itself part of the natural order? I would interpret Green as favoring adapting to change over actively stopping others from changing things.

Usually it is an artificial change. Gattica is a good example of a movie where the main conflict is Green vs. Black with Green being the side you route for.EDIT: The conflict is Green/Blue not Green/Black.

On the Sith being green, if you get into more of the extended universe stuff like the games and books, the Sith believe very firmly in survival of the fittest and fitting into a natural order, part of which is the "Rule if Two", which states that the Sith Lord must have an apprentice that will eventually kill their master and take on an apprentice of their own. In many ways, they're as green as the Jedi.

You are confusing Green’s Survival of the Fittest with Black’s. Green Survival of the Fittest is Darwinian. If a trait isn’t useful, evolution will weed it out. Black’s is “might makes right” - if I’m able to defeat you, we do what I want.

I love the color pie. However I feel that the gameplay of magic did not quite reflect the philosophy of each color. For example, running a green ramp deck needs a mindset of "I will take a few hit from the faster deck, but later you will be in trouble ", but in philosophy green wants acceptance which does not match the mindset. Could we have a set that focus on the philosophy of colors? Perhaps when we get to know the origin of colored mana the next time we revisit the eldrazi?

Acceptance of the natural order which is exactly what you just described. “If can survive the initial onslaught and give nature time to do its thing, I’ll win.”

Could you make an argument that Jessica Jones (at least the netflix incarnation) starts out mono-G (instead of mono-B as you said): She seems motivated by a desire to find "where she belongs" rather than unbridled ambition. And as the show progresses, I definitely see a Gruul/Naya streak emerging in a "smash first, ask questions later" kind of fashion.

Jessica’s powers aren’t natural. She isn’t pushing for the status quo. She has no affinity for the natural order. I see no Green in her.