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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 9:05AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2005
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Way, way, way (...) way back when I started playing Magic, I really liked green. I eventually would learn to play other colors, but back in the day, give me a Wyluli Wolf  , and I was happier than anything. One of the reasons I really liked Green back in the day was a simple card called Stream of Life  . While White was all about preventing damage, with Samite Healer  's and Healing Salve  , you could count on Green for real solid Life Gain strategies. Elvish Farmer  did so much during it's day... ... and I realize they went and changed the color wheel a bit, but I still thought that Green was suppose to represent Nature and the Life Force, and that green was suppose to care about life gain. It seems that White has taken its place, and that green cares less about life gain than Black does, and that is weird, because Black shouldn't have been about life gain at all, and yet it seems obsessed with it over the last few sets. Am I alone in this? I know Lifegain isn't a winning stratagem, but does anyone else feel green is getting pushed out of the space it should have had?
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 9:07AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 25, 2008
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Wat.
Green and white are both about gaining life :/
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 9:56AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 13, 2007
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Yeah, there are ten green cards that gain life, as opposed to twenty white cards, which is totally fine in my opinion. Also, black's life gain is always vampiric in nature, maiking your oponent lose life as you gain more. Black has been doing it since Alpha, too.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 10:04AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2005
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Can you really say that anymore? Out of approx. 82 cards that let you gain life in the Standard environment... 21 has white 20 had black 10 has green the rest being artifacts, and mutlicolored black cards, or Gather errors picking up Phyrexian Mana. Clearly, White and Black are more about gaining life in various ways than Green is... so why is Green, the color of life, has less methods of gaining it? ... Also, White *didn't* use to be about gaining life. That shift happened noticeably first during the Weatherlight expansion (Between Gerrard's Wisdom  and Revered Unicorn  ), and ever since then, has tilted more heavily towards white. The point is, if you want to play life gain, Green isn't the color you go to anymore, and I'd rather play green than white when doing the whole "Gain a bunch of life" thing. Preferably without having dumped enough creatures into the graveyard to qualify as "Already Losing".
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 11:22AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 25, 2008
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Also, White *didn't* use to be about gaining life.
Healing Salve
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 11:25AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 25, 2008
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Can you really say that anymore?
Out of approx. 82 cards that let you gain life in the Standard environment...
21 has white
20 had black
10 has green
the rest being artifacts, and mutlicolored black cards, or Gather errors picking up Phyrexian Mana.
Clearly, White and Black are more about gaining life in various ways than Green is... so why is Green, the color of life, has less methods of gaining it?
If you look at Alpha, white has four ways of gaining life (albeit one of them is hitting your own dude with swords), green has two ways of gaining life.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 11:44AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 18, 2010
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Black can steal life.
Green can make its own life.
White can do both.
So green doesn't get lifelink, which is a hit to its lifegain share. Additionally, I believe lifegain is and always was primary in white, secondary in green.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 1:23PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 20, 2006
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Black can steal life.
Green can make its own life.
White can do both.
Since when can white steal life?
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 1:31PM
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Maybe there's something, I don't know, unnatural about artificially inflating your life total? I can see why green would want some lifegain, but green is about the natural order and the circle of life and so on. Green embraces death in this manner, so extending your life by any unnatural means would not make sense all the time.
Why shouldn't black have lifegain? Where it does, it's almost exclusively vampiric, which makes perfect sense to me.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 25, 2012 - 1:42PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 23, 2003
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Black can steal life.
Green can make its own life.
White can do both.
Since when can white steal life?
Since Lifelink started appearing in White.
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