Colour pips position on cards
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:33 pm
Last year I've started to colour code my deck boxes with stickers to match the colour pips on the commander, and as I am looking all my deck boxes I've noticed there is no pattern I can identify that determines the position of the colours. It got me thinking, is there a reason for this?
All the WUBRG commanders follow the same colour order:
So in my mind, any combination of fewer pips would follow that order, just remove the colours not in use, but that is not the case. From my three colour decks, only Abzan and Esper follow the WUBRG:
Esper:
Naya:
Bant:
Abzan:
Mardu:
Most of the two colours don't follow this either, and only two of the four colours do.
Granted on cards with the same colour pips the order doesn't seem to change, like all Naya cards follow the same colour order.
Could the reason be because the colours are in order of importance for that set? Like Esper being Azorious with a splash of Black; or is the reason that whomever designed the cards first made the order up randomly and they just stuck with it?
All the WUBRG commanders follow the same colour order:
So in my mind, any combination of fewer pips would follow that order, just remove the colours not in use, but that is not the case. From my three colour decks, only Abzan and Esper follow the WUBRG:
Esper:
Naya:
Bant:
Abzan:
Mardu:
Most of the two colours don't follow this either, and only two of the four colours do.
Granted on cards with the same colour pips the order doesn't seem to change, like all Naya cards follow the same colour order.
Could the reason be because the colours are in order of importance for that set? Like Esper being Azorious with a splash of Black; or is the reason that whomever designed the cards first made the order up randomly and they just stuck with it?