History MagicTheGathering / ColorTropes

* TheSpock: Blue's focus on rationality, logic, and emotional detachment frequently leads Blue characters to play this role. The primary blue planeswalker Jace Beleren is this, probably more so than any other.

* UltimateBlacksmith: Since Blue is the color that deals most heavily with Artifacts, it barely edges out Red in the number of Artificers it has.

* GrayingMorality: While Wizards has struggled to make the conflict between Black and White not too... well, [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]], they have had no such problem adding nuance to the conflict between Red and White. Early cards tended to portray it as [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights in Shining Armor]] vs TheHorde, with Red rarely getting to showcase its traits of empathy and imagination. Nowadays, the dynamic has shifted, with the canon now also containing a number of [[OrderIsNotGood tyrannical White-aligned villains]] fighting against [[RedIsHeroic Red-aligned]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified revolutionaries]].

* TheBard: Red currently as the second-most Bard-class creatures, beaten out only by Green.

* KnightInShiningArmor: While the class has come in a variety of colors, particularly in ''Thrones of Eldraine'', a lot of Knights will be White; this includes other similar creature classes like [[ThePaladin Paladins]], Crusader, or [[TheCavalry Cavalry]].

* BadassBureaucrat: Considering the amount of smarts needed to be one, it is no surprise that a lot of Advisor-class creatures will be Blue, second only to White in the number of Advisors.
* BareFistedMonk: While the class is more heavily associated with Green and White, a good number of Monks will also be Blue, especially among the Jeskai on Tarkir (and to a lesser extent during ''Adventures in the Forgotten Realms'').

* MurderInc / ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: Black currently has the most creatures with the Rogue class in the game. They also currently have the most creatures with the Assassin class (in fact, non-Black Assassins are quite rare). It also has the third-highest number of creatures with the {{Pirate}} class, and is the primary color for the now rarely-used Mercenary class.

* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: While the class has run through every spectrum of the Color Pie, you're very likely to find creatures of the Rogue class in Blue. Blue also currently has the most creatures of the {{Pirate}} class.

* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: While the class has run through every spectrum of the Color Pie, you're very likely to find creatures of the Rogue Class in Blue. That being said, Blue currently and fittingly has the most creatures of the {{Pirate}} class.

* MurderInc / ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: While the class has run through every spectrum of the Color Pie, you're very likely to find creatures of the Rogue Class in Blue. That being said, Blue currently and fittingly has the most creatures of the {{Pirate}} class.

* ArcherArchetype: While the creature class is heavily associated with Green, White also has a significant number of Archers too. In White's case, a lot of them have tap ablities that allow them to damage attacking or blocking creatures, representing them engaging the enemy in long range combat.

* ArcherArchetype: While the creature class has run the gamut of every color, the Archer class is heavily associated with Green; these creatures are AntiAir specialists often having either ''Reach'' or some other effect that targets creatures with ''Flying''.

* MightyGlacier: The general playstyle of mono-Green decks, if not focused on "green weenies" detailed above, are "ramp decks" which often involve devoting their first few turns to getting as many lands into play as possible so they can summon their big creatures a few turns earlier than normal. They may be vulnerable and lack defenses in the early game, but once they fully utilize their wealth of mana later on, there is little stopping them.

* MightyGlacier: The general playstyle of mono-Green decks, if not focused on "green weenies" detailed above, often involves devoting their first few turns to getting as many lands into play as possible so they can summon their big creatures a few turns earlier than normal. They may be vulnerable and lack defenses, but once they fully utilize their wealth of mana, there is little stopping them.

* {{Kirin}}: [[https://scryfall.com/search?q=t%3Akirin&order=name&as=grid&unique=cards Kirins]] are used in planes inspired by Asian cultures -- such as Kamigawa, Tarkir and Shenmeng -- as a replacement for angels in the "large, rare mono-colored creature" spot; they always have Flying and tend to be depicted as omens and messengers who herald the birth, death or arrival of important people.

* OurTrollsAreDifferent: Most cards of the Troll type will be Green. Before it was eventually removed, all Trolls had the ''[[HealingFactor Regenerate]]'' keyword.

* ApocalypseHow: Armageddon, Wrath of God, Balance, Final Judgement. While such outright killing is generally outside White's philosophy, these effects are acceptable because they create order by forcing the whole battlefield to restart from a blank (or relatively even) state.

** The hydras native to Dominaria and Rath are Red- rather than Green-aligned, and live in mountains and volcanic badlands; as these were the first hydra cards printed in real life, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness this is an artifact from before the hydra creature type settled into its current identity]].

* MakingASplash: Water is the element most associated with Blue, whose mana symbol is a water droplet. Blue gets a lot of water-based spells, in addition to a great many water elementals and aquatic monsters. Increasingly, this is shared with Green, though the latter tends to focus more on water's life-sustaining properties.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Centaurs are a traditionally green creature type, and while mostly fairly standard there are some unusual variations. Gruul centaurs from Ravnica, for instance, have large antlers, as did some Dominarian centaurs from the Ice Age, while [[http://magiccards.info/pc/en/139.html other Dominarian centaurs]] have the heads and lower bodies of antelopes. They’re also a major race in Theros, where they’re divided between the civilized Lagonna Band and the barbaric, aggressive Pheres Band, and where they chiefly worship Nylea, the God of the hunt, and Pharika, the God of poisons and medicine.

* FesteringFungus: Black is the second most common color for the [[MushroomMan Fungus]] creature type (behind green), and has many more noncreature cards representing parasitic infections.

* TheFairFolk: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness The first published Faerie cards were green]], but now there are more of them in Black and (especially) in Blue than in Green. Green does still get the majority of the mischievous woodland dwelling Ouphes.

* JackOfAllStats: While White and Green have the best creatures and Red and Blue have the best spells, Black is the most balanced color in both aspects, though this [[CastFromHitPoints also has its price]]. In fact, Black is probably the most versatile color in the game, with access to efficient creatures of all sizes, card draw, mana acceleration, and removal (both targeted and [[KillEmAll mass]]). The only thing Black can be said to be explicitly ''bad'' at (as opposed to merely [[AlwaysSecondBest not the best]] or only [[PowerAtAPrice good at conditionally]]) is [[PhlebotinumProofRobot destroying non-creature artifacts]], which it [[WeaksauceWeakness can't do at all]].

* GuileHero: While the other colors focus on neutralizing threats, Blue has a number of ways to take them for itself. The simplest example is the mere ''existence'' of {{counterspells}}. If a Blue opponent has left mana untapped at the end of their turn, the wise player knows their next spell can be blown away and must figure out how to trick the Blue player into wasting their counterspell on something unimportant. (Meanwhile, the Blue player is just bluffing and has only land in their hand.)

* CreativeSterility: More severely than any other color. White is the color of rigid dogmatism, and has little use for randomness, gambles, or idle pondering. Mechanically, it is the weakest color in terms of card drawing '''[[WeaksauceWeakness by a lot]]'', opting instead to re-use smaller creatures after they die or repeatedly pump out [[WeHaveReserves wave after wave]] of nondescript but numerous [[{{Mooks}} token creatures]] to scale into the late game.

* RulesLawyer: White ''is'' the color of bureaucracy, so of course white has the most bureaucracy. A number of white cards restrict what players can and can't do, like [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136291 Rule of Law]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159308 Moat]].

* FireIsRed: Though, to be fair, as in most other spells, Red spells don't necessarily have the same color as the color itself, and some fire spell artwork has apropriate orange or gold flames.

* GadgeteerGenius: Oddly, Red has been sharing this trope with Blue for a while now. Unlike Green, Red sees technology as one more way to express its creative vision and, as a result, is actually just behind Blue for number of cards that (positively) interact with artifacts, though it has more of a theme around rockets, demolitions, explosions, weapons and furnaces than Blue. These themes are particularly prominent with the renegades of Kaladesh and the Izzet League.

* GadgeteerGenius: Oddly, Red has been sharing this trope with Blue for a while now. Unlike Green, Red sees technology as one more way to express its creative vision and, as a result, is actually just behind Blue for number of cards that (positively) interact with artifacts. These themes are particularly prominent with the Renegades of Kaladesh and the Izzet League.