History BlueAndOrangeMorality / CardGames

** Morality on Amonkhet is a little weird, since their society is 1) [[HeavenSeeker dedicated to the pursuit of a glorious afterlife at all costs]] and 2) the work of murderous social engineering by [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]]. This leads to an ''extremely'' casual attitude towards death; those who die during the Five Trials clearly weren't worthy of the best afterlife! One of them is even dedicated to encouraging members of a crop of warriors, who may have been training as a unit since they were five, to sacrifice each other in order to progress through the Trial, and this is viewed as not only acceptable but laudable - those who don't will, in theory, have a harder time getting into the God-Pharaoh's glorious afterlife.

** Morality on Amonkhet is a little weird, since their society is 1) [[HeavenSeeker dedicated to the pursuit of a glorious afterlife at all costs]] and 2) the work of murderous social engineering by [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]]. This leads to an ''extremely'' casual attitude towards death; those who die during the Five Trials clearly weren't worthy of the best afterlife! One of them is even dedicated to encouraging members of a crop of warriors, who may have been training as a unit since they were five, to sacrifice each other in order to progress through the Trial, and this is viewed as not only acceptable but laudable - those who don't will, in theory, have a harder time getting into the God-Pharaoh's glorious afterlife.

-->"Have you ever killed insects nibbling at your crops? I think that's what the Eldrazi believe they're doing to us." -- ''Shrivel'' flavor text

** Morality on Amonkhet is a little weird, since their society is 1) [[HeavenSeeker dedicated to the pursuit of a glorious afterlife at all costs]] and 2) the work of murderous social engineering by [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]]. This leads to an ''extremely'' casual attitude towards death; those who die during the Five Trials clearly weren't worthy of the best afterlife! One of them is even dedicated to encouraging members of a crop, who may have been training as a unit since they were five, to sacrifice each other in order to progress through the Trial, and this is viewed as not only acceptable but laudable - those who don't will, in theory, have a harder time getting into the God-Pharaoh's glorious afterlife.

** [[EldritchAbomination The Eldrazi]] are portrayed as horrific beings of destruction. At the same time, they are not mindless, but rather operate on a completely different moral axis. [[spoiler:In "Eldritch Moon", Emrakul even participates in her own binding into a prison on the moon, because in some unspecified way it's not her time to act.]]

*** Green Phyrexia seeks to change, grow, and approach perfection through an accelerated form of natural selection. However, it considers bestial physicality a virtue and sentience a hindrance, which puts it ''squarely'' at odds with Blue Phyrexia.

*** White Phyrexia follows a scripture talking of the inadequacy of flesh, and the unity of all. It considers ''skin'' a barrier to unity, and flaying is treated as a purification rite.
*** Blue Phyrexia is constantly trying to improve themselves... by taking apart other beings to learn how their few good traits work.
*** Black Phyrexians fight among themselves, each of them trying to prove that ''they'' are the strongest and should get to run Phyrexia ''their'' way.
*** Red Phyrexia is finding itself filled with confusion, the ideals of personal freedom from red mana in conflict with the hive-like nature of Phyrexia.
*** Green Phyrexia seeks to change, grow, and approach perfection through an accelerated form of natural selection.

** [[EldritchAbomination The Eldrazi]] are portrayed as horrific beings of destruction. At the same time, they are not mindless, but rather operate on a completely different moral axis.

*** Green is the power of nature and lives on instinct. Green is really the ultimate Blue/Orange color, since nature doesn't care at all about artificial moral codes but rather lives by the law of the jungle. Green's allies are red and white; green's enemies are blue and black.

*** White/Black tends to focus on aspects of Life and Death, as well as Sacrifice - both self-sacrifice and sacrificing others for your own ends. Expect lots of life-drain, reanimation, and exiling.
*** Black/Green tends to focus on cycles of destruction and creation. Expect LOTS of graveyard-play, destruction of practically anything on the field, and decay.
*** Green/Blue tends to focus on evolution and growth. Expect strange and huge creatures, spells which mutate or otherwise alter creatures, putting more and more creatures out, and spells which use creatures as their basis.
*** Blue/Red tends to focus on Scientific/Magical advancement by any means necessary. Expect lots of absolutely insane effects, LOTS of lightning, and significantly more of a focus on Instant and Sorcery spells than any other card type.
*** Red/White focuses on war, full stop. Expect a plan based around amassing huge armies of relatively small creatures all working in tandem, a few heavyhitter creatures which stand alone as unique warriors which also supplement and/or are supplemented by your troops, effects which change the dynamics of Combat as a whole, and [[MoreDakka lots & lots of concentrated fire]].

*** Black turns inward, toward the self. Remember that DarkIsNotEvil, since it's still possible to do good while pursuing self-interest. Black's allies are red and blue, where as it's enemies are white and green.
*** Red is the color of freedom, emotion, and destruction. Red sounds inherently blue and orange, since freedom is generally considered good while destruction is usually viewed as negative. And of course, emotions go all over the map. It's allies are black and green and it's enemies are white and blue.

*** Green Phyrexia seeks to change, grow, and approach perfection through an accelerated form of natural selection.
* In the second ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' Duel Terminal storyline, Gishki Noelia was shown acting cruel and evil on some cards, but good and benign in others. The art of "Aquamirror Illusion" and "Aquamirror Cycle" suggests she forced Gishki Emilia to transform into "Evigishki Gustkraken" against her will, and she seems to have had orchestrated the alliance with the Evilswarms due to cards like "Trial and Tribulation" and "Creeping Darkness" which resulted in her being turned into Gishki Psychelone. On the other hand, she is seen comforting crying children on "After the Storm" and protecting them in "Spell Wall". (Possibly, she was committing evil in order to accomplish what she believes will bring about greater good, in which this Trope may apply.)

*** Black turns inward, toward the self. Remember that DarkIsNotEvil, since it's still possible to do good while pursuing self-interest.
*** Red is the color of freedom, emotion, and destruction. Red sounds inherently blue and orange, since freedom is generally considered good while destruction is usually viewed as negative. And of course, emotions go all over the map.
*** Green is the power of nature and lives on instinct. Green is really the ultimate Blue/Orange color, since nature doesn't care at all about artificial moral codes but rather lives by the law of the jungle.

** WOTC has put a [[http://www.wizards.com/magic/playmagic/whatcolorareyou.asp "Personality Quiz"]] online that allows you to determine your 'color' - many of the answers to the multiple-choice questions are arguably blue-and-orange morality, and the results also show a bit of the same.

** [[EldritchAbomination The Eldrazi]] are portrayed as beings of horrific beings of destruction. At the same time, they are not mindless, but rather operate on a completely different moral axis.

*** White Phyrexia follows a scripture talking of the inadequacy of flesh.

** Color pairs usually emphasis what the two colors have in common. This goes well for allied pairs, since they're allied for a reason. When dealing with Enemy pairs, things can get a bit funky:
*** Green/Black is the cycle of life; putting emphasis on the death aspect of black as the end and the growth aspect of green as a new beginning. They don't view death as an end, merely a new beginning and embrace it with just as much fervor as green would for nature or black for greed.
*** Green/Blue is progress at any cost; it puts emphasis on green's ability to adapt with blue's innate intelligence and efficiency. It's summed up in it's patron guild's new keyword Evolve, as Green/Blue seeks to become greater at the fastest pace possible, even at the expense of morality.
*** Black/White brings out the worst in lawful evil; they're adherent to the law solely to further one's own standing. Slavery is common and while religion is worshipped, the only thing they truely believe in is the mighty dollar. Because of servitude, like the green/back, death is not an end. Unlike Green/black, this is not a good thing as you will serve out the remainder of your term in undeath.
*** Red/White is the color of Law and Zealotry. They will defend the law with religious fervor and are highly militarized. Their flaw lies in that they can often fall into LawfulStupid and be blinded in their fury from the truth.
*** Red/Blue is the color of innovation. However, while they contain some of the weirdest and wildest mechanics, most of them come with hilarious drawbacks and often explode in the user's face. Possibly the defining color of AwesomeButImpractical, the entire color is filled with mad scientists of all flavours and runs on ForScience!.