Magic the Gathering mana color QUIZ

[Lemnear]

I'm really curious to find out the colors of your mana!
It's quite a long quiz, 175 questions.

you can take the test here!

It can have up to 3-colors outcome.

[Air Master Burst]

I don't need to take that test to know that I'm a colorless token with the ability bands with other Air Master Bursts.

Can you tell I haven't played magic in 25 years?

[BareKnuckleRoo]

It can have up to 3-colors outcome.

pfft back in my day the cool kids had 5 color sliver queens

[Lemnear]

It struck me particularly because it is conceptually correct.
The entire human spectrum divided perfectly according to the philosophy of the 5 colors.
It can also give Pentacolor as an answer, or Colorless.

[Lander]

I submitted after giving a noncommittal answer to the first question, which apparently apparently makes me a Blue Planeswalker.

Color's accurate, at least! Philosophy too, in large part. Though being a horoscope-ish thing, I suspect the outcomes are cleverly worded so as to apply a little bit to any reader! Or perhaps I just got lucky - looking through, I probably would have landed on Blue / Green given a bigger sample set.

Dunno, I can't shake the feeling that most of these personality test doodads - behind the Groucho Marx glasses - are just Myers-Briggs or another similar psychological framework. At least this one is nice enough not to ascribe chibi world leaders to each result - never feels good to pull the Adorable Hitler tarot when you're not much for conquest or subjugation

[BryanM]

A more robust labyrinth is 'What MTG set are you?' I'm gonna say I'ma Mercadian Masques...

It's funny that they're bringing back the core sets, again, again. It almost feels like they've come full circle with it having a longer shelf life like in the old days, but learned the lesson that you have to make some new cards to want invested players to ever buy any of it. Eh, a part of me knows that can't resist the temptation and they'll try pumping them out on a yearly basis. It is as inevitable as reprinting a set that just came out but without the colors, or $1000 proxies...

... uck. Remember when they tried to sell a minimum viable set with barely any cards in it? 'Memba when they scammed some normos who liked Jumpstart by slapping its name on a junk product?

It's entertaining to watch them being so naughty. And weird when other TCG's are so very normal in comparison.

... Hasbro's CEO is literally named Cocks. There's no way we aren't inside a computer simulation.

[Lemnear]

This test helped me a lot to understand people, especially after I attended a whole lesson on this topic in a lecture hall.
I was visiting a friend who went to the second oldest university in the world, philosophy course, and they held a 2-hour lesson on Magic the Gathering and on the subdivision of the human psyche/soul/characters split between the 5 colors (+ colorless ), and how at the base there is a huge study of psychology and philosophy, he even mentioned a few names but I don't remember.

[BryanM]

Horoscope things like the color quiz are just a way to kill some time. "Conceited and is easily insulted. Holds back emotionally but is able to find satisfaction through sexual activity." ? Who doesn't!

Blue being about intellectualism, black being about selfishness, white being about community, green being about being a tree-hugging hippy, and red being about being angry and horny all the time is just one way to categorize people.

I personally prefer to divide things by what they care about.

Most people care about people and only people. The textbook 'normo'.

One of the most baffling things to me as a kid was the show Entertainment Tonight. I used to really like movies, and wanted to hear about new ones, the process of writing or making special effects. Entertainment Tonight had zero interest in movies - it only cared about actors. Gossip about who is boinking who. As I was boinking very few of the people featured (zero, actually!) I had no ability to even begin to be able to craft a theory why any person on the planet would care about any of this useless shit.

Looking back now, it makes me feel like Michael Falk.

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(Just to engage with the spirits of this thread, I'm Blue-White-Black. My motivation for why we should make the world a better place to live in (or even making the place continue to be habitable in the first place) isn't primarily because I have a huge overflowing love of my fellow man; I do not. It's because I'm a person who has to live in this garbage heap and I'd rather have my life be better than worse.)

[Lander]

Part of the fun of sociology and psychology is that nothing is off the table - it can't be, lest we ultimately fail to reckon with it!
Though I don't envy the last couple generations of scholars on that front; having to contend with vast outbreaks of internet-based degeneracy around the turn of the century (as well as more wholesome game abstraction based devices, et cetera) is a pretty big upheaval.

To elaborate a bit on my own self-classification: I'm not much for my fellow man either most days, but there's enough idealism in there to hope that we can - as a species - eventually get over ourselves. To wit, I'd like to leave the place a little better off, perhaps have my obsessions knock a foothold or two into the shoulders of giants that future generations will be scaling.

I personally prefer to divide things by what they care about.

Hear, hear. Classification tests are a useful lens through which to reason, but they do a poor job of accounting for individuality.

One of the most baffling things to me as a kid was the show Entertainment Tonight. I used to really like movies, and wanted to hear about new ones, the process of writing or making special effects. Entertainment Tonight had zero interest in movies - it only cared about actors. Gossip about who is boinking who. As I was boinking very few of the people featured (zero, actually!) I had no ability to even begin to be able to craft a theory why any person on the planet would care about any of this useless shit.

People like what they're told they like. Or, less misanthropically, like what they're given.
90%+ of daytime TV trades on the idea

[Lemnear]

Blue being about intellectualism, black being about selfishness, white being about community, green being about being a tree-hugging hippy, and red being about being angry and horny all the time is just one way to categorize people.

The fact is that almost no one is "mono color".

And..not exactly, White is the color of Unity, not of Community (Green), and at the same time they are both the colors of Isolation and Loneliness.

(Just to engage with the spirits of this thread, I'm Blue-White-Black. My motivation for why we should make the world a better place to live in (or even making the place continue to be habitable in the first place) isn't primarily because I have a huge overflowing love of my fellow man; I do not. It's because I'm a person who has to live in this garbage heap and I'd rather have my life be better than worse.)

mmm
Interesting, so you are Esper.

White/Blue/Black represents Technocracy through Efficiency.
Emptied of emotion and impetus (Red) and careless of tradition or destiny (Green).
Someone who wants the reins in hand, in the name of logical efficiency, I dare say an almost cynical and utilitarian vision of the world. But functional.
There may or may not be a certain ego, it depends on the percentage of the 3 colors. It could be a desire for personal improvement (Blue-Black), or more generally, to improve society with logic and efficiency (White-Blue).

White seeks Peace through Order.
Blue seeks Perfection through Knowledge.
Black seeks Power through Opportunity.

BUT being Espers they are mixed...so there is a search for Power through Knowledge, Opportunity through Order, and Peace (especially mental) through Perfection.
The final goal being the middle color and friendly color of the other two, is Perfection (Blue).

So you are a resolute type, constantly upgrading, provided that the world around you allows it, in which case you can exploit its quibbles (Black+White) for higher purposes (Blue).
You probably think that the world moves in a foolish and dysfunctional way to the interests of its own inhabitants.

At least this (approximately) indicates the result.
If you want, take it as a mana horoscope

[BryanM]

Esper was definitely the homerun of Shards of Alara, both mechanically and thematically. The new colored artifact creatures really stuck out versus whatever the other four shards were doing. The guys who'd chop off their crappy meat arm and replace it with a superior robot arm was a classic kind of thing that transhumanists actually want to do.

While the other shards didn't feel remotely like a unique self-contained world. Just generic creatures and factions of their respective colors. A real letdown of a set, overall. I suppose that's intrinsic to multi-color, once you go bigger than pairs themes and mechanics begin to blend together. Maybe it could have never been as good as the Ravnica guilds, but Esper makes me wonder if it could have gotten close if they could come up with some better ideas.

... ugh, those of you who haven't been following the game are blessed in a way, if you don't like watching horrific multiple car pileup-esque disasters like I do. Magic the Gathering is now 50% non-Magic the Gathering. Now it's 50% Spongebob, Final Fantasy, Scooby Doo, etc. I suspect it isn't long that they get rid of the nerdy elf and goblin stuff (except for when the IP of the season has them) completely.

Arguably we're already there, since the 'real' Magic sets have your favorite characters in cowboy hats, in a Ghostbusters mansion, a speed racer knockoff race set, etc etc.

I guess I'm just sad that making multiple card games isn't optimal for revenue. The popularity curve is really steep; where the top 0.1% of games/movies/books make over 90% of the money... it's ridiculous.