Subtlety

Ninjas Color Rationale

A while back, when I was playing a ninjutsu-based deck, a friend commented that, while ninjas being black made sense to them, they weren't sure why ninjas are in blue too. Another friend suggested that blue is the color of subtlety, but that didn't seem to convince them. Why then are ninjas primary in blue?

Deception, trickery, and theft are all primarily blue.

Black Blue Colors Ninjas Primary Subtlety

D&D Mechanics Over Specific Universe

Hello, D&D mechanics are cleverly translated into MtG cards. But flavorwise, I feel AFR is a big fail: I don't find the flavor and subtlety of a basic D&D world in AFR, there isn't a correspondance with how magic works in the roleplaygame (and MtG is about magic, right ?). I feel like you've adapted any medieval RPG, not specifically D&D and less so the Forgotten Realms. Did you consciously choose to emphasize D&D RPG mechanics over Forgotten Realms's specific universe ?

Can you give a concrete example of a discontinuity?

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons Flavor Mechanics Subtlety

Power Level of Free Spells

Hey Mark!I've noticed a certain trend in Modern Horizon's 1 and 2. The "free" spells clearly have blue at the best and red at the worse. Blue seems to get access to what it usually does, Force of Negation is negate and Subtlety is sort of like Hinder. Yet for red it seems like design if VERY careful to not give red direct damage. Force of Rage, two 3/1's that die at end step and Fury only hits players. I think it is pretty obvious that red is being severely bottlenecked on its power level for free spells and blue continues to be the 'best' color, why is that?

Because defensive spells are much less dangerous as free spells then offensive spells.

Blue Colors Force of Negation Force of Rage Free Spells Fury Hinder Modern Negate Power Level Red Spells Subtlety

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