What is the difference between a character aligned to an enemy color pair compared to their shared ally? For example, what's the difference between a character who is and one that is ? Or a character that is and one that is just ?

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Depends entirely on the interpretation of that color pair. One RW character can have different red and white traits than another.
In a general sense, you can just compare with the Ravnica guilds. Izzet's focus on experimentation is starkly different from traditional black traits, Simic's focus on evolution isn't found anywhere in white.

Massive, to the point where there's basically no relation between the two. Colors are discreet, not continuous.

A character who is has both white and black values/components. These are sets of views and traits that are normally at odds with one another but that are not so much at odds with Blue's attributes.

I'll simplify this by giving each color two traits. In reality, each color has a lot more than two and many traits bleed, but for the purposes of illustrating, it'll do.

: Orderly, Altruistic
: Intellectual, Logical
: Selfish, Morbid
: Chaotic, Emotional
: Instinctual, Vital


A character (in this super-simplified scheme) is at least one of Altruistic and Orderly and at least one of Selfish and Morbid. The Orzhov guild of Ravnica is and could be described as Selfish, Orderly, and to a lesser extent Morbid. a mono entity, by contrast is at least one of Intellectual or Logical, probably both, and doesn't have any of the headline traits from other colors in great degree: the blue character is not likely to be remarkably altruistic, selfish, orderly, or morbid. They fall near the middle on those factors. A well-rounded character will probably exhibit behaviors and/or personal traits outside those of their color and only their color, but their dominant values and/or core nature are part of the slice of the pie belonging to their color or colors.

Well see the further across the color wheel you mix, the more desaturated the pigments become. So technically one CAN mix green and orange to get yellow just as easily as one can mix blue and yellow to get green, but in both cases the results will be very debased compared to the pure pigmoh wait we're talking Magic yeah the colors aren't continuous in the Magic color wheel, just in painting

Many of the enemy colours are actually the opposite of their common ally:

: Often associated with exploring boundaries, as opposed to dogma.

: Conservative, as opposed to progress.

: Optmistic, curious, as opposed to nihilism and apathy.

: Social darwinistic, as opposed to empathy.

: Proactive and fanatical, as opposed to contentment.

That's still only certain takes on the colour combinations- not the combinations themselves. A colour combo is too broad to boil down into one word.

Also conservatism is primarily :G:. And... would you say :B: is the most proactive colour? I guess it's a tossup between red and black.

is the Tolkien sort of conservative, while is the Trump sort... as far as we've seen.

Truth to be told, there are susprisingly few characters that matter; only the Orzhov Church and Sorin offer some insight, while most other creature cards are just random monsters (gwyllions, zombies, vampires, et. cetera)

GB's social Darwinism feeds into the side of R that's all about barbarism. The idea of "stop me if you can" is a militant take on GB's social Darwinism. On the subject of GB - what makes Maelstrom Pulse GB? Would the black represent Bolas's meddling while the green represents the natural order of the shards of Alara?