Magic The Gathering Mana Color

By Simon Wong

After you have determined what method you are going to employ to defeat your opponents, it is time for you to determine your favorite Mana Color. Long time ago the abilities you can find in each Mana Color are exclusive, meaning you cannot cast spells of red Mana if you only have black Mana. But now there are some Sorcery, Enchantment or other spells which are shared by different Mana Colors. But it usually cost you more to cast spells that originally belong to another Mana Color and also more limitations and requirements are imposed.

If you use the same mana color spells together, there will be so called inherent effects. One spell would straighten each other and they will become more powerful. On the other hand, cards of different colors sometimes make each other weaker because of the inherent limitations.

Nevertheless, using single color is not the only strategy to employ and it has its drawbacks, too. In a common situation, if one uses a single colored deck, the ways of attack of the variety of strategies is easier to be predicted. Also, different Mana have different strengths; one is unable to make use of them if one relies solely on one Mana Color.

However, this situation is changing over time because there are always new cards being born which would give hope in balancing the forces. One Mana color is able to spend a little extra cost to utilize abilities of another.

Of course, if you use a deck of multi-color of Mana, you may be able to use strengths of different Mana color. But at the same time you greatly increase your own chance of making a Bad Draw. For example, you may have an entire hand of Red cards but not even one Red land card. And you will be sitting there eating fire balls.

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! - 30320

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