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What is Blue in Second Edition?

Bajoran
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Borg
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Cardassian
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Dominion
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Deep Space Nine
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Ferengi
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Klingon
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Maquis
3
30%
Romulan
4
40%
Starfleet
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The Next Generation
1
10%
The Original Series
2
20%
Voyager
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By Faithful Reader (Ross Fertel)
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#566399
Magic: The Gathering is the undisputed leader of the CCG industry. They divide things up into five colors. They can (and often do) intermingle but often come back to those five at the end of the day.

We'll look at them this week in terms of what they looks like in Second Edition. For today, we'll look at Blue. Look at the pool below and tell us what is Blue in Second Edition. More than likely there are a few different and equally viable responses but which most resembles Blue? let us know and we'll keep this open for at least a week and allow revoting. Be sure to tell us why as well.
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By Danny (Daniel Giddings)
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#566400
It's [TOS] - both TOS and blue (at least, it was when I played MTG regularly) are/were the meta-policing arms of the game.
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By jadziadax8 (Maggie Geppert)
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Faithful Reader wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:21 pm Magic: The Gathering is the undisputed leader of the CCG industry. They divide things up into five colors. They can (and often do) intermingle but often come back to those five at the end of the day.

We'll look at them this week in terms of what they looks like in Second Edition. For today, we'll look at Blue. Look at the pool below and tell us what is Blue in Second Edition. More than likely there are a few different and equally viable responses but which most resembles Blue? let us know and we'll keep this open for at least a week and allow revoting. Be sure to tell us why as well.
It might be helpful to define your Magic terms. Not all of us drink that Kool-aid. ;-)
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By Faithful Reader (Ross Fertel)
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jadziadax8 wrote:
Faithful Reader wrote: Magic: The Gathering is the undisputed leader of the CCG industry. They divide things up into five colors. They can (and often do) intermingle but often come back to those five at the end of the day.

We'll look at them this week in terms of what they looks like in Second Edition. For today, we'll look at Blue. Look at the pool below and tell us what is Blue in Second Edition. More than likely there are a few different and equally viable responses but which most resembles Blue? let us know and we'll keep this open for at least a week and allow revoting. Be sure to tell us why as well.
It might be helpful to define your Magic terms. Not all of us drink that Kool-aid. ;-)
I would but they would be my Magic terms. Even if you have the most cursory of knowledge of Magic, let me know what from Second Edition most closely matches. Also, there miiiiight be a theme in questions this week.
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By GooeyChewie (Nathan Miracle)
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jadziadax8 wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:21 pm It might be helpful to define your Magic terms. Not all of us drink that Kool-aid. ;-)
The short version is, in Magic, Blue = control.
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By jadziadax8 (Maggie Geppert)
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For those not in the know, this article gave me an idea of what this means.

Oh, and Blue is Romulans.
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By Marquetry
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#566428
Trying to go by memory first... Red was Offense, White was Defense, Black was creepy swamp monsters that my boyfriend liked using, and Green was the cute forest critters that I preferred.
Blue being Control/spells sounds about what I remember :)
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By Armus (Brian Sykes)
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#566429
Obviously with ~3x the number of "colors" in this game compared to magic, it's not going to be 1:1. In this case, Romulan and Maquis are the most "don't let you play the game (at least not the game you want to play) factions. Both of them have cards that translate almost exactly from literal Magic cards (e.g., Stalling for Time == Unsummon).

Dominion and Cardassian also have some control elements with Infiltration and Capture respectively, but those would be secondary "blues" in my book.
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Bear in mind blue is associated with control, but discard from hand(the main Romulan means of control?) is more associated with black (I think?). Blue does mill from the deck though.

Stopping you from using your creatures (tapping) for a turn is akin to a personnel being stopped. Bouncing is also a blue thing.

Blue is also associated thinking and mental energy, aka drawing.
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