Thank you, good feedback. My feeling was that as a short comment it was 100% fine if it didn’t make sense to non-MtG people (or at least, anyone without the color wheel), and I’d rather keep it short than give the necessary background. Plus, it was more of a ‘fun exploration’ thing than trying to make a serious point.
Likely I should have linked back to the color wheel post, though.
For the record, I play Magic regularly and have for a long time, and I didn’t get it. I’m still not sure to what extent the colors really align with the descriptions given by either Duncan or Zvi.
The red knight values individual sovereignty, yes, but is not risk-averse or cautious. Red is certainly capable of forming armies that follow a leader.
Black doesn’t particularly care about “convincing arguments.”
Green could be a plant-like thing that’s hard to kill, but it could also be a very fragile plant that shrivels up and dies. Or judgy, racist elves, or whatever.
Perhaps these are not so much absolute representations, as the representation of each color that is most likely to appear in a rationalist house (basically, these are all X/u knights, not pure X knights).
Thank you, good feedback. My feeling was that as a short comment it was 100% fine if it didn’t make sense to non-MtG people (or at least, anyone without the color wheel), and I’d rather keep it short than give the necessary background. Plus, it was more of a ‘fun exploration’ thing than trying to make a serious point.
Likely I should have linked back to the color wheel post, though.
For the record, I play Magic regularly and have for a long time, and I didn’t get it. I’m still not sure to what extent the colors really align with the descriptions given by either Duncan or Zvi.
The red knight values individual sovereignty, yes, but is not risk-averse or cautious. Red is certainly capable of forming armies that follow a leader.
Black doesn’t particularly care about “convincing arguments.”
Green could be a plant-like thing that’s hard to kill, but it could also be a very fragile plant that shrivels up and dies. Or judgy, racist elves, or whatever.
Perhaps these are not so much absolute representations, as the representation of each color that is most likely to appear in a rationalist house (basically, these are all X/u knights, not pure X knights).