I agree that color identity is important but it feels like red’s forced to stick to its narrow identity a lot more stringently than the others. If you’re playing red, you’re almost always playing aggro, or just adding Lightning Bolts to something. Meanwhile, blue and white can play aggro, tempo, or control (and in standard they’re quite good at all three.)

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ghostdaddotcx-deactivated201212 asked: I agree that color identity is important but it feels like red's forced to stick to its narrow identity a lot more stringently than the others. If you're playing red, you're almost always playing aggro, or just adding Lightning Bolts to something. Meanwhile, blue and white can play aggro, tempo, or control (and in standard they're quite good at all three.)

Red has a control aspect. It’s mostly seen when it’s paired with other colors, but red can sit back and remove threats.

May 24, 2012

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scribblesnorton said: There are a couple straight red removals (mostly old), and red brings copying effects like Reverberate and Increasing Vengeance to the table, for both control and aggro.
sarroth said: Unfortunately, threats in multiplayer tend to be bigger, because the games tend to go longer and allow players to cast more 5+ toughness creatures. Aside from X-damage effects, Red is weak controlling these creatures.
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havelockv said: That’s not enough. Every color should have more than one default mode of play. All red can do right now is count to twenty. Red needs a late game; better sweepers, better dragons, more ways to get value.
veloxiraptor said: Oh sure, it can sit back and remove threats…..Provided that they’re 4 toughness or less.
mcsleuthburger said: Should an aspect of a color only be able to come out when paired with another color?
kizer91 said: Perhaps all colors should be able to play whatever way you want to play them (Aggro, Control,etc, etc) but they have very different ways of doing these jobs from each other. To limit a color to only one playing type, you are limiting that color.
recklessmartyr said: My Red/Black/Blue deck is a control deck mostly. It uses the red to remove the cards with weaker toughness that are still threats that I don’t want to waste Go for the throats or doomblades on, Like elvish piper.
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