I will take a look at your article and yes, color identity is why I heavily prefer limited formats. It is a lot more fun that way, but I felt that I just couldn't find official format that would be for me and popular. The issue is that when you look into limited formats, a lot of basic tribes often lack a key cards to make a tribe whole. Even if card is not OP and fair to play against, for some reason, certain cards would be of rarer quality and thus your builds would suffer. I never felt that Magic the Gathering pays much attention to balance of those limited formats as some key cards were of different rarity than they should.
Path to Exile was an outliner to me which was pretty annoying. I wanted to play Blue/Black, but I had found that white has more solid removal in form of Path to Exile which in my eye is just brokenly good. I also feel that colors sometimes are just too efficient at certain things which they are not supposed to do. For example, Wrath of God in my eyes is one of the best form of mass removal and this thing should not be anywhere close to any white decks! It either has to be situational or a lot worse than it is now. Or Pacifism. While not technically removal, it is in some senses even better than it. It completely removes creature from play, but at lower costs than a card which would remove it from play and people would very rarely would have a counter play for such an effect.
When I'm looking, I can find countless such outliners which are in a game and they never fail to annoy me. It got so bad that I consider White color to be best at removing stuff in a game over any other color which should be the opposite of what I was thought should be the case.
Before we start, I must say that I'm not dedicated Magic the Gathering player. I had played few hundreds of hours of Magic the Gathering from somewhere 2010 to 2020 in digital and physical formats. I'm not up to date with most recent cards nor I'm in no way pro player. In fact, I was never attracted to a competitive side of things, because I felt that Magic the Gathering is inherently greatly disbalanced and it is very frustrating to play it. I prefer to play various formats which allows only more common cards or just pre-constructed decks, but that is another matter all together.
In my eyes, I perceived that various colors tended to have too strong of options. For example, despite wanting to go black for removal, the best removal was in a white deck as Path of Exile. I had seen similar little things in all decks where supposed strengths and weaknesses weren't upheld. I'm of course in no way an expert, nor I played for quite a while this game. However, this is an impression I was left with that Magic the Gathering had moved away from its premise and colors became a lot more universal in their own capabilities. Far too much for my own personal taste.
I would wish to know opinion of other people and what they think about this.
Path to Exile was an outliner to me which was pretty annoying. I wanted to play Blue/Black, but I had found that white has more solid removal in form of Path to Exile which in my eye is just brokenly good. I also feel that colors sometimes are just too efficient at certain things which they are not supposed to do. For example, Wrath of God in my eyes is one of the best form of mass removal and this thing should not be anywhere close to any white decks! It either has to be situational or a lot worse than it is now. Or Pacifism. While not technically removal, it is in some senses even better than it. It completely removes creature from play, but at lower costs than a card which would remove it from play and people would very rarely would have a counter play for such an effect.
When I'm looking, I can find countless such outliners which are in a game and they never fail to annoy me. It got so bad that I consider White color to be best at removing stuff in a game over any other color which should be the opposite of what I was thought should be the case.
Before we start, I must say that I'm not dedicated Magic the Gathering player. I had played few hundreds of hours of Magic the Gathering from somewhere 2010 to 2020 in digital and physical formats. I'm not up to date with most recent cards nor I'm in no way pro player. In fact, I was never attracted to a competitive side of things, because I felt that Magic the Gathering is inherently greatly disbalanced and it is very frustrating to play it. I prefer to play various formats which allows only more common cards or just pre-constructed decks, but that is another matter all together.
In my eyes, I perceived that various colors tended to have too strong of options. For example, despite wanting to go black for removal, the best removal was in a white deck as Path of Exile. I had seen similar little things in all decks where supposed strengths and weaknesses weren't upheld. I'm of course in no way an expert, nor I played for quite a while this game. However, this is an impression I was left with that Magic the Gathering had moved away from its premise and colors became a lot more universal in their own capabilities. Far too much for my own personal taste.
I would wish to know opinion of other people and what they think about this.