Thoughts on implementing additional team colors? More of a visual upgrade than a functional one but I think it would be a good way to game some individualism to the teams, also adds to realism factor I suppose
Keep up the good work as always!
Using the (moderately out-of-date) 2017 color pie summary, we'd get:
- 'White' is now the color of prowess, hexproof, reach, counterspells, card draw, 'drain life', effects that scale with how many Plains you have, land destruction, fog effects, extra attack phases, and -N/+N effects on creatures.
- 'Blue' is now the color of creature reanimation, cheating enchantments into play from your hand, untapping lands, dealing damage when blocked, and auras that give +N/-N.
- 'Black' is now the color of first strike, ramp, flickering permanents, and stealing permanents.
- 'Red' is now the color of taking extra turns, and ending turns.
- 'Green' is now the color of flying and haste.
This is a way, wayyy weirder mix than just giving each color the abilities of its enemies. How would you flavor a 'Bizarro Magic' like this? What other effects would make sense (for mechanical balance and synergy, and for flavor), if those were each color's core?
My Goal: I'm building a cube with each of the 10 color pairs using an odd archetype. Think Orzhov enchantments matter. It has actual support (thanks to Theros sets) but it's rarely used or seen.
Your Goal: help me brainstorm ideas for each color pair. Feel free to suggest cards in the archetype such as [[Doomwake Giant]] in Orzhov enchantments.
Cube Info: 360 cards, 30ish guildgate tap lands, no snow/wastes, [[Eviscerate]] is considered excellent removal, combat tricks are viable, morphs are playable (a 3 mana 2/2 is a decent rate.)
Inb4: GW +1/+1 counters, WU Fliers, WU control, BR sacrifice, UR spells, UG +1/+1 counters, WB aristocrats
What if, rather than being restricted to a single primary color upon the creation of an ideology, additional colors could be assigned to add variety to favored clothing and the overall look of a faction?
Could this realistically be modded in somehow?
I'm kind of into my own fashion thing, and I taught myself using Color wheels.
I know the tertiary color wheel, when using Red, Blue, and Green as your primary colors makes the secondary colors Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan.
Hope it helps you all crack the next puzzle quicker.
That would potentially appease the community AND allow you to make money from these "premium" skins/shaders.
Why in the hell do the names of tertiary colors printed on crayons have to be so damn lazy?? Red-violet? Blue-violet? Red-orange? Blue-green? They have other names you know! Why does crayola and every other crayon/colored pencil company do this? What happened to names like Teal, Vermilion, and Magenta? Why must these color companies pretend these names don't exist? They're very memorable and much better than the laziness we've been stuck with for who knows how long.
Full list of tertiary colors with improved names:
Red-Orange: Vermilion
Orange-Yellow: Saffron
Blue-Green: Teal
Yellow-Green: Chartreuse
Purple-Red: Magenta
Blue-Purple: Violet
A lot of people say we should go back to the red-white-yellow color scheme, but that usually just ends up looking too McDonald's-y -- or at best, like we're just copying the Houston Rockets. So what about if, instead of yellow, we used the gold from our 2018-19 city jerseys instead? Something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/3x2Pbpi.jpg
It wouldn't have to be that exact design, of course, but what do y'all think of just the color scheme? It could give us some nice brand synergy with Atlanta United too.
How it was suggested:
- Players manually pick out three different colors instead of a fixed 3-color combo
How to progress?
- Low levels start with basic colors
- More reps, more color unlocks
- Different teams, different swatches available (if they insist on keeping team colors. AFAIK they're working on a client-side toggle feature.)
Why is it better?
- Minimizes UI clutter in customizations
- Removes color combos that are basically duplicates of other colors (congrats! you unlocked yet another yellow/black/white scheme!
- Muh customizations
How to make it even better
- RGB customization for all three colors and replace all rep color unlocks with moar patterns or embossings
The game currently has 16 different dyes, one of which is cyan. Cyan is a mix of the colors blue and green, which is 1 of the 6 tertiary colors on the color wheel. But where are the other 5? I think they would fit well with the dyeable blocks like terracotta and concrete. Adding more colors would increase the potential for a build to really be great.
For reference, I changed the hue of cyan dye to match the other 5 tertiary colors- https://imgur.com/a/zAqQlx2
Inspired by this comment here. Then I remembered this article, MTG Color Pie. I ended up with this:
- Banshee - Blue/Red (Crowd control / Damage magnifiers)
- Ember - Red (Damage dealing / Panic effects)
- Mag - Blue/White (Crowd control / Shield boost & Damage redirection)
- Mesa - Red/White (Damage dealing, damage buffs / Prevent enemy attacks)
- Nekros - Black/Blue (Reanimation, Sacrifice health for loot / Prevent enemy attacks)
- Rhino - Green (Tanky / Damage, health, and armor buffs)
- Saryn - Green/Black (Tanky/ Spores = Tokens?)(Infect counters?)
- Trinity - White/Green (Heal effects / Energy regen, damage resistance buff)
- Valkyr - Red/Green (Damage dealing, Speed buffs / Avatar mode, Invulnerable, Lifegain)
- Volt - Red (Damage dealing, Speed buffs)
More or less a rough translation of passives, abilities and augments translating to color mechanics. Just a fun thought on the side.
