Thursday, January 31, 2013

Color identity: Red & White

 This is going to be the first of a series of articles that I will hopefully continue and eventually cover all 27 color identity options. Today Red and white, one of my favorite color combinations, will be the focus of conversation.

RED & WHITE


It's difficult reflect on red and white with out bringing up the boros legion. Boros came along and combined the popular tournament archtypes of white weenie and sligh to become the go to color combination for aggressive creature combat. This is actually really difficult to translate into a powerful commander deck due to the inherent weakness of aggro in the format in general. That being said, if there is one color combination that can bring aggression to the table, I would say it's Boros. To do so, we probably need to shy away from what makes Red/White popular in the 60 card formats.