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JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-05 00:38:19
March 03 2013 21:53 GMT
#1
We are working on another major guide and need your help with some things. I'll be posting in this blog occasionally to ask questions, this is the first. Please answer honestly and encourage friends you know to answer in the poll as well. The more data we have the better.

What is your most played color in Magic: The Gathering?

Poll: What Color/Race is your most played in Magic The Gathering/Starcraft2?

Blue / Zerg (18)
 
14%

Green / Protoss (16)
 
12%

Black / Terran (13)
 
10%

Blue / Protoss (11)
 
8%

Blue / Terran (11)
 
8%

Red / Terran (10)
 
8%

Black / Protoss (8)
 
6%

Red / Protoss (8)
 
6%

Red / Zerg (8)
 
6%

White / Protoss (7)
 
5%

Green / Zerg (6)
 
5%

White / Zerg (5)
 
4%

Black / Zerg (4)
 
3%

Green / Terran (4)
 
3%

White / Terran (2)
 
2%

131 total votes

Your vote: What Color/Race is your most played in Magic The Gathering/Starcraft2?

(Vote): White / Protoss
(Vote): White / Terran
(Vote): White / Zerg
(Vote): Blue / Protoss
(Vote): Blue / Terran
(Vote): Blue / Zerg
(Vote): Black / Protoss
(Vote): Black / Terran
(Vote): Black / Zerg
(Vote): Red / Protoss
(Vote): Red / Terran
(Vote): Red / Zerg
(Vote): Green / Protoss
(Vote): Green / Terran
(Vote): Green / Zerg



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EmNGiantNome
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States126 Posts
March 03 2013 21:58 GMT
#2
I don't play MTG
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-03 22:24:55
March 03 2013 22:24 GMT
#3
Its so much fun. I'll be doing data gathering like this for a bunch of different games. At least LoL and DotA 2, so keep an eye out
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Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
March 04 2013 00:45 GMT
#4
Ha! Very interesting to compare the two. I already voted, but here's how the races/colors seem to me:

Protoss: G/U or U/W creature control. They're fighters, but they're also tricky/clever/technological.
Zerg: B/U reanimator, R/G aggro, or R burn. Swarm, grow, destroy.
Terran: R/W aggro or affinity. They're mostly just feisty little dudes, but also, robots.

From the other perspective:
W: Angels, enchantress stuff, control stuff is protoss. Weenies and rebels are terran.
U: 100% protoss, obviously.
B: 100% zerg.
R: A mix of terran and zerg. Goblins, burn, all that stuff could go either way.
G: Thematically pretty neutral, I'd say.

Obviously it's much too early to draw any sort of conclusions based on the responses, but I would expect to see a large number of G/Protoss responses not necessary because they're thematically close together, but because they're both easy to understand. Someone hands you a green deck? You're probably supposed to play some acceleration, a bunch of little creatures and/or one big one, and turn them sideways, potentially with some combat tricks. At least in Wings of Liberty, you were probably doing the same thing most of the time with protoss. Cast a bunch of elves and whatnot (stalkers and zealots), stabilize yourself with some utility spells as needed (sentries), then mix in more and more of your favorite fatties, mana permitting (robo tech).
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
March 04 2013 00:49 GMT
#5
Thanks for the analysis. I hope we get enough people voting to have useful data.
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sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
March 04 2013 01:17 GMT
#6
Uh I actually just realised it's only starcraft 2. I don't play sc2. But I am 100% terran. In terms of decks, I have like multiples of every colour and multiples of multiples of colours so it's kinda hard but I guess the most natural one for me was green. I always enjoyed enchantment/elf decks. So scratch a green/terran off your list if you are just doing sc2.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10158 Posts
March 04 2013 01:23 GMT
#7
i use dual color decks only though and i random in sc2 ><
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
March 04 2013 01:25 GMT
#8
My favorite deck is my U/G madness deck and I play protoss, so voted G/Protoss
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
March 04 2013 21:38 GMT
#9
I wish I still had time/money to play MtG, but when I was playing often my favorite deck was an elf deck.
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two_eyes
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3 Posts
March 04 2013 21:41 GMT
#10
From a lore perspective, the Zerg are 100% Green. They just want to grow and eat and reproduce. They exist in a collective mind, they practice survival of the fittest, and literally everything they make and use is alive.
JDub
Profile Joined December 2010
United States976 Posts
March 04 2013 21:58 GMT
#11
On March 05 2013 06:41 two_eyes wrote:
From a lore perspective, the Zerg are 100% Green. They just want to grow and eat and reproduce. They exist in a collective mind, they practice survival of the fittest, and literally everything they make and use is alive.

I'd say you could make an argument for Zerg as Black as well, what with the poisoning and acid and infesting humans and damaging one's own in order to damage the opponent (viper consume).
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
March 04 2013 22:16 GMT
#12
I'm way out of the loop for MtG stuff, but if anyone has ideas on similar mechanics between races in Sc2 and colors in MtG I would be really interested.

For example, I used to play a squirrel deck where the idea was to swarm the opponent with tons of units (Zerg). But I know this is much more basic than it could be. If anyone has written or would like to write a comparison of the way different colors/races tend to function and a comparison between them, hit me up!
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two_eyes
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3 Posts
March 04 2013 22:40 GMT
#13
On March 05 2013 06:58 JDub wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2013 06:41 two_eyes wrote:
From a lore perspective, the Zerg are 100% Green. They just want to grow and eat and reproduce. They exist in a collective mind, they practice survival of the fittest, and literally everything they make and use is alive.

I'd say you could make an argument for Zerg as Black as well, what with the poisoning and acid and infesting humans and damaging one's own in order to damage the opponent (viper consume).


Poison and acid are both very Green. I'll grant you the infestation and the sacrifices, but those are relatively minor mechanics as compared to the spreadspreadspreadspread nature of the Swarm.

Mechanically speaking, I can understand why Green and Protoss have a lot of crossover, as they both tend toward the "few but efficient fatties" model rather than the "lots of cheap guys" model.
S_treaks
Profile Joined August 2007
United States27 Posts
March 04 2013 23:15 GMT
#14
MtG is the shit! I used to play a bit, but don't really have the time/money for it.

My favorite strategy was inspired by "The Sparkler" theme deck, from the Stronghold set.
Red & Blue, almost entirely direct damage and counterspells with a couple creatures to round it out. I played about 75% of my cards during my opponents turn, what fun!

So, I guess I'd say red was my main color?
JDub
Profile Joined December 2010
United States976 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-04 23:52:57
March 04 2013 23:52 GMT
#15
On March 05 2013 07:40 two_eyes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2013 06:58 JDub wrote:
On March 05 2013 06:41 two_eyes wrote:
From a lore perspective, the Zerg are 100% Green. They just want to grow and eat and reproduce. They exist in a collective mind, they practice survival of the fittest, and literally everything they make and use is alive.

I'd say you could make an argument for Zerg as Black as well, what with the poisoning and acid and infesting humans and damaging one's own in order to damage the opponent (viper consume).


Poison and acid are both very Green. I'll grant you the infestation and the sacrifices, but those are relatively minor mechanics as compared to the spreadspreadspreadspread nature of the Swarm.

But what about Pestilence, or Infect (Example infect card)? Aren't these poison/infection type things that are black?

I totally get where you're coming from with the spread spread spread, lots of tiny dudes multiplying, etc., but I also feel like the Swarm has this darkness that can be represented by Black. Something like 75/25 Green/Black type of deal.
Peculator
Profile Joined November 2012
Netherlands7 Posts
March 05 2013 07:54 GMT
#16
Favorite magic decks were U/W control, but since that is not an option I'll go with White (weenie). Seems an ok match with zerg.
two_eyes
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3 Posts
March 05 2013 16:34 GMT
#17
On March 05 2013 08:52 JDub wrote:But what about Pestilence, or Infect (Example infect card)? Aren't these poison/infection type things that are black?

I totally get where you're coming from with the spread spread spread, lots of tiny dudes multiplying, etc., but I also feel like the Swarm has this darkness that can be represented by Black. Something like 75/25 Green/Black type of deal.


Infect was equally in green and black. I'll grant you that disease/infestation is something that shows up in black, though, so I guess my final verdict is that Zerg is mostly green with a little black.

As for Terrans and Protoss, I think Protoss are W/U with a little bit of green (organized society, highly advanced technology, reason > emotions, but the collective unconsciousness of the Khala) and Terrans W/R with a little bit of blue (organized army, emotions > reason, big on personal freedom, but they do have a love affair with machines).
Rankith
Profile Joined August 2010
United States78 Posts
March 05 2013 20:01 GMT
#18
Right now green/toss is highest. That makes perfect sense to me. Here is how I would relate them.

Green: Big creatures, buffs, steamroll opponents with raw power.
Red: Fast, swarms, direct damage. Blow shit up.
Blue: Smart/tricky, controls the play of others, knowledge.
White: Defensive, some minor control, big creatures with abilities, annoying life gain/lockout mechanics
Black: Devious, draining, hard to kill off, mean.

Protoss: Big death ball, powerfull stuff, obliterate armeis with your army kinda deal.
Zerg: Map control, vision, mass creatures.
Terran: Defensive, slow an ponderous, annoying drops.

So for a single color.
Protoss=Green. Big stuff killing stuff, enough said lol.
Zerg=Blue. Controls playing field with creep, infestors, tricky with things like burrow. Seems like it may associate with red or black, but blue seems closest of those 3.
Terran=White: Defensive, some minor control with tanks etc, annoying drops to correspond with annoying life gain cards.

IMO, better poll would be choose race, then up to 3 favorite colors.
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
March 05 2013 20:09 GMT
#19
oooo, that is such a better way to organize it. Should we just start over?
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Zaranth
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States345 Posts
March 05 2013 20:56 GMT
#20
I play toss, and I just made a Biovisionary/Infinite reflection deck with elves (blue/green). However before that I had a vampire deck with Olivia (black/red).

EDH decks I have Mayel and Riku as commanders.
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