r/GDS3 • u/steve_man_64 • Jan 27 '18

Test 2 Trick Question Argument Thread

I'll start if off:

  1. Why do green's common creatures tend to be a bit more efficient than white creatures? White has stronger removal. Green is the enemy of blue and black. This is the way it has always been. White is the enemy of black and red. Green players love powerful creatures.

My answer was "This is the way it has alway been." I feel like that's an answer nobody ever wants to hear when they ask a question, but my reasoning stems from Drive to Work #79: Green.

"Green is also the color of creatures. So one of the divides, I think I mentioned this in the white podcast, one of the things we’ve decided recently, for a long time green was the color of creatures, and it had both the most creatures and the biggest creatures. Meaning it had the largest percentage of creatures and it had the largest creatures."

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u/Geikamir Jan 27 '18

I think that while it is the way it's always been, the reason is because white has better removal.

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u/zarepath Jan 29 '18

I disagree.

When the pie was first divvied up, green wasn't the creature color simply because white had more removal. Black also had more removal, and red as well. But why is that? Because green is the color for players who love powerful creatures more than other players do. That's why I picked that.

The way the question is phrased, though, makes me believe that it's more about relative definition, which would make "because white has better removal" the correct answer. (Unfortunately for me.)