The color pie is the heart of Magic since it defines what you can do and what you can't.
While there are people who play with literally anything most people tend to have a favorite style of deck and the colors are the central part of that.
So here we can say what we like or dislike about the colors.
My favorite color is actually a tossup between blue and black.
Blue has card drawing and counterspells which I like. It's also the wizards/thinking mans color which I like from a flavor perspective. Opposition represents what I like about it. Mages battling with their mind.
I like black because of its kill spells and discard. Flavor wise I like the "power at all costs" aspect.
The good thing is that you can play both of them in the same deck without problems and in the past UB was a powerful color combination. In recent times it mostly just feels like the casual mill crap color though.
Least favorite is likely green.
Im just not a fan of nature-related stuff and I also don't like how focused green is on creatures. All colors have good creatures but they do have something else too like card drawing, removal spells, discard, counterspells, etc. The only thing that regularly shows up in green besides creatures is ramp and I dont find that exciting at all.
My blood runs blue. It is said that whatever colours I am playing I am actually still playing blue. Although they are just made I countered or killed their green fatty.
Green is not me, large creatures don't interest me much (unless they are dragons but thats red or scuttling doom engines) ok I guess I kind do but I don't like the lack of interaction and the reliance on the top of my deck. But then again green has tutors.. I love having tutors.
I play all the colours, but I am still trying to two for one with everything value value value.
My favourite limited deck and the one I always do the best with is U/W flyiers but i have avoided white in standard for a long time because it has just had too many overtly powerful cards recently and I can't afford to play it.
In modern I can't play blue for the same reasons blue is too expensive and Ironically I have a green deck and a red deck.
My first ever deck was a green and my second one my third was white.. but my fourth was blue.. my fifth was green again.
actually I don't know..I think my favourite colour is colourless... and my least favourite... despite considering myself an azourious member is white?.
*is now confused*. I like fighting against variance, by tutoring, drawing and building decks where everything is the same.
I'm blue all the way, and my tertiary colors are red and green (So I was happy Simic and Izzet were apart in RTR, gave me things to play.) I don't really like black or white as much, though I play both of them occasionally.
My least favourite colour honestly? Black. Why? Simple. One of it's mechanics which it is famous for, sacrificing creatures. I hate sacrificing my creatures. Any black deck I play ignores the mechanic. I don't care about sacrificing artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, or even lands. I find that fun. But sacrificing creatures is so annoying, since most of the time it took mana to put them on the field and the won't be able to attack no more...
My least favourite colour honestly? Black. Why? Simple. One of it's mechanics which it is famous for, sacrificing creatures. I hate sacrificing my creatures. Any black deck I play ignores the mechanic. I don't care about sacrificing artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, or even lands. I find that fun. But sacrificing creatures is so annoying, since most of the time it took mana to put them on the field and the won't be able to attack no more...
I also don't like to sacrifice my own stuff but there can be some sweet decks be made with it.
I remember the end of last Standard season where that GB Rock deck pop up which abused the Disciple of Bolas + Thragtusk/Desecration Demon combo. That was a sweet deck.
The good thing is that you can play both of them in the same deck without problems and in the past UB was a powerful color combination. In recent times it mostly just feels like the casual mill crap color though.
Least favorite is likely green.
Im just not a fan of nature-related stuff and I also don't like how focused green is on creatures. All colors have good creatures but they do have something else too like card drawing, removal spells, discard, counterspells, etc. The only thing that regularly shows up in green besides creatures is ramp and I dont find that exciting at all.
If I see that UB gets stuck with a weak mill theme again in Khans of Tarkir I'm just going to give up on the color combination getting anything good. If they're going to do mill, they can at least make it strong. As for green ramp, they get to search for utility lands sometimes which makes it interesting.
My favorite color is U. The color of curiosity, knowledge, and technology appeals to me as I enjoy drawing cards, countering spells, and casting artifacts. I also like that it has the most instants, and it has control magic effects. R and B are close seconds. Burn spells are flexible in their use, and haste is much appreciated as I came from Yu-Gi-Oh where your cards could attack on the turn they are played. Reanimator effects and discard are the main reason I like B. If R had more cards showing its artistic and loving side I would be able to say it is second without a doubt — but I guess I'll have to wait. Those three colors are what come to mind when I imagine what a mage looks like.
My least favorite is G. Summoning large, beefy creatures is fun and all, but I'd rather play something like Griselbrand or Consecrated Sphinx; flying is better 9 times out of 10. All of the other colors' iconic creatures have flying (even R) which leaves the hydras trying to snap at their feet. The only reason W isn't my least favorite is because it gets to answer any type of permanent, has a variety of board wipes, and has recently been made king of tokens.
It seems we need more people to favorite R and G (poor guys).
I like Green, though Black is a close second, and I enjoy playing both together. Black has sweet control elements, and interesting design to how they can gain an advantage, while green has strong creatures and sweet tool box style cards, plus they deal with lands a lot, and lands are super fun. Put them together and you have sweet ways to abuse creatures and since both have graveyard focused elements you get a diverse angle to attack your opponent, not only from hand, but recurring threats.
My least favorite color is white, even though in Legacy I play white in all of my decks because I love Hatebears, the color is generally not very interesting. The blink mechanic is really the only interesting thing that white does imo
I voted as blue being my favorite color although I have never ran a mono blue deck. I do tend to add it to almost every deck I build though. Out of my 8 decks I have;
I've only ever built 2 decks with G that I actually liked. One was a WUBRG Fungus deck that ran Hivestone and several slivers. The other that I built was for someone else and it was BG Golgari sacrifice deck.
This poll is somewhat difficult. I'm a tie on blue/green. Lest favored on red. I utilized red cards or splashes but not deep red decks or color identities.
God I wanted to choose both green and white for my favorite colors. They constantly switch back and forth for me. As for least favorite? Black is a great color for many reasons, it's just the flavor of black turns me away. I have always loved the "white knight" or "power of nature" archetypes and black is just the total opposite of those. Blue is my second least favorite. I am a creature guy at heart, I love winning in the combat step and that just isn't blue's strongest attribute.
Favorite color is red. I like the flexibility that burn provides; it's creature kill, planeswalker kill, and player kill all in one package. I also like winning gradually rather than setting up for one fell swoop.
My least favorite color is a tie between green and blue. Both colors are masters at setting up for kills, green with ramping and tutoring, and blue with deck manipulation and card drawing. Generally, I am averse to playing combo decks, and while red has its fair share of combos like Kiki-Jiki, Past in Flames, Storm, and Splinter Twin, these combos are facilitated by green and/or blue's big list of set-up cards.
My favorite color Blue, though I do share a great love of White and Black. Which makes sense since I am a faithful follower of the Religion of Card Advantage.
So it makes sense that the colors I can't play as are Red and Green. Mostly Green though. I just can't play ramp spells. It feels weird and wrong every time I do it. Why waste a turn and cards to play lands? I can do that for free every turn. They're awful in the late game too. Mana dorks are even worse. They're temporary lands that are very easily destroyed.
Then again I play a lot of multiplayer, which is a weird strange little format.
When I first read the question and Galrion's opening post, I felt it would be an easy choice. But after thinking on it a bit it is not that simple for me. As time has gone on and my play style has evolved, the color preference has shifted. I dont like long drawn out games/matches so I think I am have to go for red, though recently black can end games rather quickly also, but I have done well with all colors through the years.
I enjoy white, black, and red. My favorite will shift with various meta-games and formats. My earliest success in Magic was with a white weenie deck, so I'll always have a soft spot for that, and I marked white as my favorite overall.
For years I was not a big fan of playing with green, but I generally enjoyed its existence as an adversary. My enjoyment of playing with the color has increased greatly over time, starting with the printing of Vines of Vastwood. In my mind, that kind of design started to give green some much needed depth.
Blue is far and away my least favorite color. I honestly think the design and development of blue in general is the worst aspect of Magic production. WotC have printed more mistakes in blue than in any other color and have constantly failed to learn from those mistakes.
My favorite color is green. I enjoy playing overwhelming creatures that my opponent has to answer, or get wrecked. My favorite thing in Magic is ramping and I love lands.
Black is my least favorite color. Every time when there is a choice to be good or evil (in a video game for example), I always choose good. Black just reads "evil" to me. There are zero black mechanics I enjoy, so I just don't want to play black.
I like long games, in which small advantages are built up over time.
Favorite: Blue. Counter any haymaker plays, while drawing cards and using one-for-ones from another colour to stay in the game.
Least favorite: Red. I dislike hyper aggression, whether it's Affinity, Goblins or anything else, and red's reach from burn makes it the most common colour of hyperaggression.
Blue is the worst, because it brings the pathetic "I'm Jace" crowd in, as well as being poorly designed/developed across the history of magic, and for some reason MaRo has some warped sense that blue needs to be inherently way more encompassing/powerful than other colors like red.
I play primarily black, I just enjoy the way black plays out, and the flavor is a lot of fun as well. Recursive threats are a large part of my game plan, and no other color gives you better ones than black. Least favorite is blue, I don't like constantly waiting on my opponent to do something, just to say "nope". I don't have fun doing it and I doubt the person sitting across from me does either. The only "blue" I will play is cantrips, but every deck needs card advantage right?
I voted fav blue/least fav green. That said, I don't dislike green & have multiple decks where green is a dominant color that are plenty of fun. It just happens that green sits lowest in my ranking of colors.
While there are people who play with literally anything most people tend to have a favorite style of deck and the colors are the central part of that.
So here we can say what we like or dislike about the colors.
My favorite color is actually a tossup between blue and black.
Blue has card drawing and counterspells which I like. It's also the wizards/thinking mans color which I like from a flavor perspective. Opposition represents what I like about it. Mages battling with their mind.
I like black because of its kill spells and discard. Flavor wise I like the "power at all costs" aspect.
The good thing is that you can play both of them in the same deck without problems and in the past UB was a powerful color combination. In recent times it mostly just feels like the casual mill crap color though.
Least favorite is likely green.
Im just not a fan of nature-related stuff and I also don't like how focused green is on creatures. All colors have good creatures but they do have something else too like card drawing, removal spells, discard, counterspells, etc. The only thing that regularly shows up in green besides creatures is ramp and I dont find that exciting at all.
Green is not me, large creatures don't interest me much (unless they are dragons but thats red or scuttling doom engines) ok I guess I kind do but I don't like the lack of interaction and the reliance on the top of my deck. But then again green has tutors.. I love having tutors.
I play all the colours, but I am still trying to two for one with everything value value value.
My favourite limited deck and the one I always do the best with is U/W flyiers but i have avoided white in standard for a long time because it has just had too many overtly powerful cards recently and I can't afford to play it.
In modern I can't play blue for the same reasons blue is too expensive and Ironically I have a green deck and a red deck.
My first ever deck was a green and my second one my third was white.. but my fourth was blue.. my fifth was green again.
actually I don't know..I think my favourite colour is colourless... and my least favourite... despite considering myself an azourious member is white?.
*is now confused*. I like fighting against variance, by tutoring, drawing and building decks where everything is the same.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
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As for my favourite colour. White. 3 reasons. The protection mechanic, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, and Stoneforge Mystic.
U Merfolk | GR Tron | WUR Jeskai Control | WBG Abzan Company
EDH:
G Ezuri, Renegade Leader, Fighting for Rivendell
WU Brago, King Eternal, Long Live the King
WUBRG Scion of the Ur-Dragon, Worship the Dragon
I also don't like to sacrifice my own stuff but there can be some sweet decks be made with it.
I remember the end of last Standard season where that GB Rock deck pop up which abused the Disciple of Bolas + Thragtusk/Desecration Demon combo. That was a sweet deck.
If I see that UB gets stuck with a weak mill theme again in Khans of Tarkir I'm just going to give up on the color combination getting anything good. If they're going to do mill, they can at least make it strong. As for green ramp, they get to search for utility lands sometimes which makes it interesting.
My favorite color is U. The color of curiosity, knowledge, and technology appeals to me as I enjoy drawing cards, countering spells, and casting artifacts. I also like that it has the most instants, and it has control magic effects. R and B are close seconds. Burn spells are flexible in their use, and haste is much appreciated as I came from Yu-Gi-Oh where your cards could attack on the turn they are played. Reanimator effects and discard are the main reason I like B. If R had more cards showing its artistic and loving side I would be able to say it is second without a doubt — but I guess I'll have to wait. Those three colors are what come to mind when I imagine what a mage looks like.
My least favorite is G. Summoning large, beefy creatures is fun and all, but I'd rather play something like Griselbrand or Consecrated Sphinx; flying is better 9 times out of 10. All of the other colors' iconic creatures have flying (even R) which leaves the hydras trying to snap at their feet. The only reason W isn't my least favorite is because it gets to answer any type of permanent, has a variety of board wipes, and has recently been made king of tokens.
It seems we need more people to favorite R and G (poor guys).
My favorite is blue with a split between u/b and u/w as varying second and third.
I despise r/g. Philosophically the color combination is absolutely vile to me and the playstyle evokes similar feelings.
My least favorite color is white, even though in Legacy I play white in all of my decks because I love Hatebears, the color is generally not very interesting. The blink mechanic is really the only interesting thing that white does imo
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WGx1 Populate token, lifegain deck.
I've only ever built 2 decks with G that I actually liked. One was a WUBRG Fungus deck that ran Hivestone and several slivers. The other that I built was for someone else and it was BG Golgari sacrifice deck.
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My least favorite color is a tie between green and blue. Both colors are masters at setting up for kills, green with ramping and tutoring, and blue with deck manipulation and card drawing. Generally, I am averse to playing combo decks, and while red has its fair share of combos like Kiki-Jiki, Past in Flames, Storm, and Splinter Twin, these combos are facilitated by green and/or blue's big list of set-up cards.
So it makes sense that the colors I can't play as are Red and Green. Mostly Green though. I just can't play ramp spells. It feels weird and wrong every time I do it. Why waste a turn and cards to play lands? I can do that for free every turn. They're awful in the late game too. Mana dorks are even worse. They're temporary lands that are very easily destroyed.
Then again I play a lot of multiplayer, which is a weird strange little format.
For years I was not a big fan of playing with green, but I generally enjoyed its existence as an adversary. My enjoyment of playing with the color has increased greatly over time, starting with the printing of Vines of Vastwood. In my mind, that kind of design started to give green some much needed depth.
Blue is far and away my least favorite color. I honestly think the design and development of blue in general is the worst aspect of Magic production. WotC have printed more mistakes in blue than in any other color and have constantly failed to learn from those mistakes.
Black is my least favorite color. Every time when there is a choice to be good or evil (in a video game for example), I always choose good. Black just reads "evil" to me. There are zero black mechanics I enjoy, so I just don't want to play black.
Favorite: Blue. Counter any haymaker plays, while drawing cards and using one-for-ones from another colour to stay in the game.
Least favorite: Red. I dislike hyper aggression, whether it's Affinity, Goblins or anything else, and red's reach from burn makes it the most common colour of hyperaggression.
I like black because I like sacrificing my own stuff and life durdlingly to win
To be fair it's tied with green right now when it comes to the least liked color.
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