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This story is a sequel to Five Colors
Twilight's quest to introduce the pony world to the human game Magic: The Gathering is going slower than she'd like, but at least Rarity is up for a game. Unfortunately, she has also transplanted human arguments about Magic: The Gathering.
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Great job on this! Loved the moment where after spending so much time talking about how she isn't red, Rarity proceeded to plop down a Mountain. Definitely worth the commission!
If the girls were monocolor... I'd agree Twilight is definitely blue, Rarity would be black, and Rainbow would be red.
The other three would be...
Applejack is green.
Fluttershy is white.
Pinkie Pie is Pinkie Pie.
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much like The Doctor, RB are brilliant liars.
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Interestingly I'd say Fluttershy is mono green and Applejack is white.
Consider: both live in nature and work in nature, but FS loves nature as it is and AJ's livelihood lies in taming it and making it hospitable. AJ is a farmer and a part of her community because she values community highly, whereas FS is okay with community cause thats just pony nature, but is more attached to the land as it is, and the animals as they come.
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You make good points. It was honestly a tossup for me. But I was looking at Fluttershy being a protector and healer while AJ is more strength and endurance.
I also find much humor in your implicit agreement of my choice for Pinkie Pie's color.
If we go bicolor, Fluts and AJ are both definitely White/Green.
I agree Rarity would be Black/Red.
Twilight would be Blue/White. She's not nearly aggressive enough for anything else.
Rainbow would be Red/Red. And Red/Red/Red if we go tricolor.
And Pinkie Pie is definitely Pinkie Pie.
What about other characters? Starlight Glimmer is Blue Black, but that’s a gimme. Cadance is white red, with passion balanced against the collective nature of the Crystal Empire and the Crystal Heart.
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“Farmers love nature. They really do. But it’s a special kind of love, one that involves lots of leather.”
-Terry Pratchett
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Discord is obviously Black/Red in his desire for chaos for chaos' sake and his personal enjoyment.
Chrysalis, Tirek, Sombra and Cozy Glow are great examples of pure Black though.
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Controversial opinion time: Fluttershy is white/green/black.
White is all about harmony and order, something she enforces when taking care of her animals. It is also the major healer's colour, with the most spells and abilities centred around keep yourself and your creatures alive and healthy... sometimes even healthier than they started.
Green is what she accepts about the world. It isn't tame, but neither is it cruel and it doesn't need to be unkind. It is also the one with all the cute and not-so-cute creatures for her to be friends with. It is the forest she finds herself drawn to.
Black seems to be the odd one out, right? However it'd be the element of death that would... not attract her, but something she'd acknowledge the necessity of. More so, it would be the part of black that shows that life can survive and even thrive in the worst places.
Finally, black would be part of it due to the one creature and play style that I feel would attract her the most.
Saprolings and the creatures that are their parents and guardians.
Saprolings are at their strongest when you accept all of them, both their green and black natures. Which Fluttershy has been shown to be more than willing to do with her animals, even if she is more white than black. Fungus type Saprolings are just as important and useful as their more accepted plant Saprolings, something Fluttershy would acknowledge and accept as well.
White comes in when you remember that Fluttershy also loves to see her friends grow up healthy and strong, and white is king of token enhancing enchantments.
She is the one pony in the Mane 6 who probably knows death the best. She would have seen so many of her wildlife friends pass away, and many of them are themselves carnivores. Thus she would have more than enough life experience to accept death as a part of life. Saprolings are the one creature in M:tG that proves that black isn't evil and in fact can even be kind in its own way, as there are even black creatures that will produce and nurture Saprolings, most notably the Fungus creature group, but not just them.
I can see Fluttershy loving the little baby Saprolings and in turn the creatures that herd and protect them, regardless of the nature of those creatures. So yeah, Fluttershy is W/G/B, or at least would run it as her deck.
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Pinkie Pie would run a 5 colour deck, just so no-one felt left out.
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I could see Pinkie playing with decks full of all the "UN-" cards, unhinged, unglued, unstable, pretty much any card that has the picture pop out of its frame. i had a couple unhinged cards and they were fun, but hard to convince people to let me use them.
I'm a begginer of knowing magic, and I want to know the reason of Spike saying both is mono green.
And I want to ask which color Spike would be. I think he would make a great deck of Burn with black and red, what is your opinion?
I'm now fine with shipping Rarity with Twilight if Spike is dating Gabby too. I want to know if she plays as well XD
Does that even qualify as fantasy in Equestria? Seems more like historical fiction.
Twilight, have you seen some vampires? It's all about the aesthetic.
Arguably. Red is very much the color of personal expression, including the artistic, but black certainly lends itself to certain media.
I like the idea of the Ultimare Universe as a Planar Chaos-style "What if?" set for standard Equestria.
Ah! And there we have it. Twice over. Lovely stuff. Ponies discussing card game color theory is far more fun than it has any right to be. And I can only imagine what Rarity would think of her actual card. Brilliant stuff from start to finish. Thank you for it.
Also, may as well throw my hat into the ring on other color identities:
Rainbow Dash: Monored developing into uRw Jeskai over the series. (Aspiring towards perfection through athleticism, with a constant tension between personal desire and needs of the many that is resolved in becoming the ideal for others to aspire towards.)
Applejack: White with a dash of green. (TRADITION!)
Fluttershy: Balanced Selesnya, developing into rGW Naya over the series. (Caring for the meek and the lost, with a developing taste for the potential of chaos.)
Pinkie Pie: Mardu before it was cool. (Her greatest aspiration and personal desire is making other people happy.)
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You really sure that she would restrict herself to only five colors?
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Yes, that would definitely be her. Especially since they were conceived as joke decks.
When Rarity cast Gifted Aetherborn, I thought for sure she'd built a deck around Yahenni. Like, they share vocabulary and everything. Huge missed opportunity, I'd say.
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The deck she is using is real and my wife made it. It does have the Undying Partisan in it. I’ll post when I’m home.
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I can kinda see your argument here. Abzan doesn’t not fit FS
When I say that I can read just your dialogue because of how fascinating it is, this is pretty much what I meant.
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Spike plays whatever is meta at the time. I mean... It's in his name.
For reals though I can only see Spike as Dimir. Case in point: Sibling Supreme.
In my mind, Rarity is more of an Izzet than a Rakdos. Her work requires specialized knowledge, and she is a bit of a perfectionist. Then again, I also fall into the trap of equating black with evil more often than I would like to admit.
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Remember that green is also the color of balance, of integrity and of family. White is the color of order, honor, and the greater good. Applejack could not be more green (she's got traces of other colors, but not enough to change her color identity),
I wonder if Rainbow Dash has just enough blue to use flyers and little else
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An interesting theory, though I would like to raise an objection. While it is true that black is the colour most commonly associated with death, it is not the sole purveyor of it. In fact, all colours have their own ways of addressing death, be it rejecting it, studying it, disregarding it, embrasing it, or exploiting it (not sure if these are the best examples, but I think my point still stands).
While i agree that Fluttershy would probably be the one amongst the Main 6 who is most familiar with death, her relationship with it matches green's realtionship with it. You even perfectly described this relationship above, you just falsely atributed it to black.
The reaction to Spike is easily the best part of this because I can just...see that moment so vividly~
Didn't expect to see this continuity again so soon after reading the other two. As I said elsewhere, I love the Ultimare reference. I'm not up-to-date on current Magic expansions, and a fair amount of the story fades into the realm of technobabble without the relevant knowledge. I looked up what flickering was and immediately understood much more about what Twilight had been doing the whole game. The turnabout at the end is well executed and I like the general premise that Twi brought this game to Equestria.
My actual preference is to ignore the present color framework and go back to the older, unbalanced and less thought out concept (which I probably don't perfectly recall) that the world generates mana, types of land refine colors, that which gets associated with the land tends to picks up some color and Platonic forms by that association, and while there really are broad associations of color with personality traits or concepts they're very indirect and mostly proved by how no matter how continually exceptions arise, we always notice them as exceptions.
Of course, while the actual reason for the redesign was likely ease of balancing operations, this is naturally far more fun for light arguing material. And since my normal build by the current standards is blue/black/white (in that order of importance but usually all three, playing oversized cosmetic Highlander decks (meaning only one of any card, even basic lands, but cards have to really be identical to count), and can usually get away with mixing in a few silver-bordered cards and older rules like mana pools and burn because I only join casual multiplayer games, don't normally play to win and my usual overt role the rare times I play is to enter, show off an odd card or combination and obligingly die)... the argument that saying I play blue/black/white doesn't do too much to pin down my actual playstyles or personality kind of writes itself without having to go back to the game's roots.
However, it does mean when I then follow by saying I think Spike has a valid argument that both Twilight and Rarity currently match mono-green, there's a clear way to interpret this statement other than as trolling, despite my lack of proceeding to lay it out. (And you can certainly build appropriate mono-green decks for both if you aren't too hung up on using recent editions of the game.)