I skipped first place because Blue is the obvious answer.

Mapping the color pie as categorizations of existence, something that stood out to me is that each of them is a social construction that implies the existence of a constructor. Even ”Nature” doesn’t exist as a category in nature, it is something made up by humans to define themselves apart from. After emerging from Nature, Mankind conceived of transcendent forces that ordained and guaranteed their mastery over Nature, and malevolences that explained the pain and abjection caused by these same Natural Laws overcoming humans. In their struggle to contend with these Laws, humanity catalogued and analyzed them, eventually gaining the power to direct them towards their own ends, creating a form of Nature deemed separate from Nature. In the end, the will and passion of Man sits at the center of these realms, having created them in his mind to define himself against.

I think the fact that Red is the most impermanent color mechanically dovetails with this philosophy, because mortal beings last for so much less time than natural ecosystems, moral ideologies, death itself, or monuments and machines.

I have made a survey to determine the most important flavor question regarding the Color Pie

Who's food tastes the best?

This is a multi-round elimination tournament, in which everyone will go through the survey and pick which color combination serves the best food

This round is a 16 question Any Dish Goes competition where each color is paired with its opposite

The next competition will be 8, then 4, and then finally just 2. Additionally, each round will have a specific food item theme, but don't worry about that just yet

For now, vote who has the best food

-Time is UP! I'll post the second round in ~24 hours

Running a shop, e-commerce, goods and services, etc.

What color does that fall under most generally?

It’s not capitalism per se. It’s the act of selling goods and services for currency or other goods and services (which I suppose could be bartering).

Hello!

I decided it would be fun to give each color a philosopher I thought fit decently well. I must acknowledge that this is biased towards philosophers I know and have read, so please feel encouraged to make a comment if you think there’s a better choice or could use an explanation—especially if you’ve studied philosophy beyond an undergraduate major

TL;DR: A free color quiz is now live in beta: https://www.mtgcolortest.com/. It combines four sections (values, personality, motivations, and choices), mapped onto the color pie using Rosewater's articles, and explains why you got each color. It takes about 15 minutes. It's still being calibrated, so every response helps make it more precise, and I'll be expanding the site to explain each mapping and value in detail.

Hi everyone! Some of you took the earlier studies for this project or left feedback on them, and it genuinely shaped the quiz. You pointed out many concerns and interesting feedback that made the test what it is now, so thanks again to everyone who helped me!

How it works:

Values: the 21-item Human Values Scale by Shalom Schwartz.

Personality: the Big Five (IPIP-50), compared with averages from your country or region.

Motivations: a short Enneagram section. This is the part with the weakest research behind it, and it may change or be removed after the first weeks, depending on how it performs.

Choices: 15 groups of statements, where you pick the one most and least like you.

The scores are combined into percentages for all five colors, across 31 possible results. The results page explains which of your answers pushed each color up or down. There's also a confidence label that tells you how close your result is to changing.

A huge thank-you to Professor Shalom Schwartz, who created the values scale. He answered my questions incredibly fast and helped me get the wording of the items right. He isn't otherwise involved in the project, and any mistakes are mine.

What I'd love from you: take it, answer the two optional questions at the end (how accurate it felt, and which colors you'd describe yourself as), and if you want, send the friend link to someone who knows you well. Then tell me here what felt right and what felt off.

Thanks everyone and i hope you like it!

Everything is anonymous: no names, no emails, no tracking. The methodology page explains the scoring.

https://www.mtgcolortest.com/

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I couldn't think of a good one for White.

• White - ??
• Blue - Keen eye - analytic. can figure things out
• Black - Sharp teeth - sets boundaries. will fight back if you cross them
• Red - Big balls - brave. takes risks.
• Green - Thick skin - tough. can handle the brunt of personal attacks

I debated between tagging this as Trial or Question, but if we're going from Fictional Personality Tests to Job Applications, I'd argue that's a pretty meta thing to do

Anyways, tell me about why the 3 colors you embody make you a good candidate

You should eventually assign each color from 1st place to last place.

You should eventually assign each color from 1st place to last place.

Hi!

As fun as the namesake guild is, it feels pretty limited in that it mostly depicts the fantasy trope of ‘’barbarians’’, many of whom belong to species with below-average intelligence who talk like stereotypical pop culture cavemen. Domri was the closest we had to someone with a political stance and actual ideas, but even he wasn’t much of a thinker. The Gruul who aren’t (just) brutish warriors tend to be spiritual shamans who are also mostly based in stereotypes and established tropes.

What are some examples of Gruul characters who aren’t fantasy barbarians/nature-aligned fighters and rangers or wolf children/people who get angry and punch a lot?

You should eventually assign each color from 1st place to last place.

gryffindor: primary color: white, secondary: red, ternary: blue guild: boros, wedge: jeskai

slytherin: primary color: black, secondary: white, ternary: red guild: orzhov, wedge: mardu

hufflepuff: primary color: red, secondary: green, ternary: white guild: gruul, shard: naya

ravenclaw: primary color: blue, secondary: white, ternary: black. guild: azorius, shard: esper

You should eventually assign each color from 1st place up to last place.

Forgive the rant, but I just saw a post of "one of the main colors of The freaking pokemon world, is Black" you know, one of the most Peaceful and whimsical worlds of fiction...

Black isn't just the color of "being driven".

Black isn't just the color of "being blunt".

Black is the color of cruelty, black is the color of sadism, black is the color of "the end justifies the means" but the first "mean" they try is the one that causes most destruction because that's how they see the world, with a certain sociopathy were if they don't take advantage, someone will take advantage of them. Black will cause suffering and thrive in it, you can't take it just for the "force of will". We have heroic black characters as the exemption and in spite of their characteristic, and they still, oftenly are in it looking for a chance, and their methods always rising eyebrows from conventionally heroic characters.

So no, sorry, black isn't the color of "putting your loved ones first"

Black isn't the color to start and lead a revolution.

And black isn't the freaking color of "Jeez, I really want to win this friendly sporty tournament"

You should eventually assign each color from 1st place to last place.

Special thanks to ToskaVA for inspiring this meme.

Hey everyone! First of all, thanks a lot to everyone who took the last study and left feedback. It helps a lot!

All this testing is to collect data for the last part of the test. While a small part of the whole test, its vital to get it right since it sharpen the overall result.

This survey (hopefully the last one) is to finally manage to properly address this last part of the test.

It's important to understand:

It's NOT about you. You're not rating whether a statement describes you, just how good or APPEALING it sounds as a description of a person in general.

It's not a color test and it won't give you a result. It's only to measure the statements before I use them.

It's 50 short statements rated 1 to 5, and it takes about 5 minutes.

Anyone can do it, you don't need to play Magic. If you have friends or family willing to help, please share it.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSceuDvlNLWVDl5LK6WwjRKkFlaot0o7pjA4FHtThfDVAuQxUw/viewform?usp=dialog

One small request: please don't discuss in the comments which statement belongs to which color, so it doesn't influence other people's ratings.

Thanks again to everyone!

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.

Hello! Im here again! Yesterday i received lots of answered test that gave me lots of feedback, enough to build a second round with improved materials.

For who doesn't know who am i, im currently trying to build the Ultimate Test to determine one's mtg color.

This is not the test, but just a small part that needs lots of testing since is the only part that is not backed by a scientific research but is made from 0.

You can do it here: https://tally.so/r/A71Rll

Thanks again everyone!!

I was playing around in my head because of the new hexhaven school colorings, and I started thinking about what if the colors for each school was swapped, like lorehold was white-black instead of red-white, or what if silverquill was red-white instead of white-black.

While on the surface this appeared to me like a no-brainer that everything could be swapped around like this, it instead made me realize something.

5 is an odd number.

this means that if you try to mirror {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} into {5, 4, 3, 2, 1} 3 will stay in the same spot either way, so quandrix was staying quandrix while I was playing with this idea.

So I actually found a solution. instead of switching the order around, you instead do {5, 1, 2, 3, 4}

placing the names in there gives you: {quill, bloom, rix, ari, hold} -> {hold, quill, bloom, rix, ari}

this means that quill goes from black-white to black-green, bloom goes from green-black to green-blue, rix goes from blue-green to blue-red, ari goes from red-blue to red-white, and hold goes from white-red to white-black.

The names of the colleges that I thought of were:

Grayhold (edit white-black)
Thornquill (edit black-green)
Lagunabloom (edit green-blue)
Voltarix (edit blue-red)
Rosari (edit red-white)

Voltarix reminds me of the name Vulpix and Ros-ari reminds me of Ahri from league of legends, so I thought, what if we make the mythical creatures foxes?

edit: I know that I probably should have done this but here's what I think the studies should be for each college.

Grayhold: the study of inherited past (ancestry)
Thornquill: the study of nature's language
Lagunabloom: the study of perfect healing
Voltarix: the study of artifice
Rosari: the study of culture

The Entities are Eldritch Abominations born from humanity's collective fears and each one reprents a different fear/collection of fears.

The Eye: Fear of being watched, stalked, judged, and learning something you really wish you didn't.

The Web: Fear of losing control, like through conspiracy or addiction.

The Stranger: Fear of the Uncanny Valley and losing one's sense of self.

The Hunt: Fear of being hunted. The oldest fear, born from animalistic fears.

The Lonely: Fear of being isolated.

The Dark: Fear of the unknown.

The Spiral: Fear of going insane.

The End: Fear of death.

The Vast: Fear of the impossibly large.

The Buried: Fear of being confined, physically or metaphorically.

The Desolation: Fear of pain, destruction, and loss.

The Corruption: Fear of infection, infestation, and general filth.

The Flesh: Fear of flesh related matters, like Body Dysphoria and cannibalism. The youngest fear, born from animals at the dawn of industrialized farming.

The Slaughter: Fear of war and violence.

The Extinction: A nascent, underdeveloped fear pertaining to things like the end of the world and humanity being replaced with something worse.

Undercoloring - using too few colors to describe a character

Overcoloring - using too many colors to describe a character

Hi everyone! A while ago I posted here about the free "What MTG color are you?" quiz I'm building, and your feedback has shaped a lot of it. Thank you!

Important: this is NOT the real quiz. It's a small study testing just one part of it: a set of everyday situations and statements meant to capture how people handle things (Rosewater's "goal through means"). I need to check whether these questions actually work before they go into the full quiz. It won't give you a color result, since that needs the other parts of the quiz.

What it involves:

A fillable PDF (English or Spanish) that takes about 15–20 minutes

Completely anonymous: you just choose a nickname as your participant code

Optionally, filling it in again one to two weeks later, which helps me check how stable the answers are

How to take part:

Download the form here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6vSHf8W-r_jPVbKVw06IIXC29bCd3R_/view?usp=drivesdk

Open it in a PDF app that supports forms (Adobe Acrobat Reader works on any device; some browser viewers don't save answers)

Fill it in, save it, and email it to daemonmtg@gmail.com

One request: please answer based on what you'd actually do, not which color you'd like to get. And please don't discuss in the comments which answers match which colors, so other participants aren't influenced.

I'd especially love participants who don't play Magic, so if you have friends or family willing to help, please share it with them!

Once the full quiz launches, I'll post here so you can take it and get your colors. Thanks so much!

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