They temporarily deal with threats while putting their user down a card. Spells that weaken a creature’s power and spells that can tap a creature also follow this pattern. Disperse goes to the graveyard, but it only sends their creature back to their hand, where they can play it again. On the other hand, the blue-colored Disperse gives your opponent card advantage. They lose their creature, and I lose my Murder card. If an opponent has one creature and I use a card like the white-colored Murder to destroy it, my opponent and I have made an even trade in cards. This generally makes bounce effects weaker than those that destroy cards outright.īounce spells also balance blue’s card draw by creating card disadvantage. While this takes it off the field, your opponent will still have the problem card in their hand and can play it next turn. The most common form of blue removal is “bounce,” which simply returns a card to its owner’s hand. The majority of blue’s ability to handle cards on the field is either temporary or reversible. Any players using that color would eliminate every card the enemy played while never running out of cards of their own.īlue’s weakness is that it is the only color in the game that (with a specific exception) cannot destroy any type of card on the battlefield. If a single color had strong and diverse removal like white and unconditional card draw like blue, it would destroy the balance of the game.
It has the best card draw, so it has the worst removal. In the color breakdown for white, I explained that because white was the color with the best removal, it needed to have the worst card draw. This ability is so powerful that it defines the color’s weaknesses. While all colors can draw cards in some capacity, blue is the only one that can do so with no limits or drawbacks. Card draw and removalīlue is the color that is primary in drawing cards. In modern times, however, blue’s abilities are tied mostly to card draw and countermagic. There was a clear balance issue in having one color’s theme be “magic” in a game about magic. In the game’s early history, blue color cards could do anything. In today’s article, we’ll go over blue color cards, the color of knowledge and perfection. Each has key strengths and weaknesses that help to ensure the game’s balance. The five colors of Magic: The Gathering aren’t there simply for flavor.
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