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Sixteen: Your muse removes one article of my muse’s clothing.
"Uh…okay Vorel, what article of clothing are you going to remove?" Poison asked. "I’m already yours for two days."
Poison couldn’t help but smirk at his reaction. “Liking what you’re seeing?” she teased.
"You are rather... healthy," Vorel said as he evaded answering her question.
Moan
Sixteen: Your muse removes one article of my muse’s clothing.
"Uh…okay Vorel, what article of clothing are you going to remove?" Poison asked. "I’m already yours for two days."
"I want to observe your…. fur…" Vorel said and if it wasn’t for his modifications, he would be blushing. As he said this, he took a hold of the bottom of her shirt and pulled it up.
Poison blushed slightly as her shirt came off. “Okay, you have my shirt.”
Vorel's eyes lingered slightly along her chest as he observed her for a minutes. He jotted some notes as he forced himself to renew his focus on his work.
Moan
Sixteen: Your muse removes one article of my muse’s clothing.
"Uh…okay Vorel, what article of clothing are you going to remove?" Poison asked. "I’m already yours for two days."
"I want to observe your…. fur…" Vorel said and if it wasn’t for his modifications, he would be blushing. As he said this, he took a hold of the bottom of her shirt and pulled it up.
The Philosophy of Green/Blue
This is it, folks, the final week in my cycle on the philosophies of the color pairs in Magic. It’s been quite an adventure, and this is the last stop for the color train. If you haven’t read all the other nine articles, don’t worry. You don’t have to read them in order. If you’re that kind of person (I sure am), here they are: White/Blue, Blue/Black, Black/Red, Red/Green, Green/White, White/Black, Blue/Red, Black/Green, and Red/White. As with those articles, I’ll be answering a few questions:
What are the conflicts between these two colors?
Where are these two colors similar?
What mechanics do these two colors share?
How has the Ravnica guild of these two colors express them?
What are real-world examples of these two colors’ philosophy?
And if you hadn’t deduced it already, today’s color pair will be Green/Blue. Also known as my favorite color pair.
What Are the Conflicts between Green and Blue?
Bred for the Hunt
Like the previous four enemy color pairs, the key to Green/Blue’s color philosophy lies in the differences between the colors. In Blue, Green sees a color too obsessed with unnatural experimentation. It tinkers with the natural way, which frightens Green. In Green, Blue sees a color with no ambition. Green sits there and lets things be, when Blue thinks it should be pushing forward and advancing its cause. At its core, this conflict is nature vs. nurture. Green feels the way things are is the way things are, but Blue thinks everything starts as a blank slate that can be molded however you want. Meeting at the halfway point, Green/Blue accepts that change is the natural way. If there’s a single word that sums this relationship up, it’s evolution. Green/Blue wants to be a catalyst for growth, because that’s what it was born to do.
Where Are Green and Blue Similar?
Spitting Image
Green/Blue looks at evolution as the convergence of its ideologies. Green feels that growth is just nature’s way of changing and adapting. Blue thinks that self-improvement is the same thing as growth. The divide between knowledge and wisdom is also broken down. Green/Blue says that more knowledge will, over time, become more wisdom. Promoting change gives Green/Blue great focus, which has the downside of Green/Blue not being able to take a step back and evaluate what it’s doing. It makes Green/Blue a little crazy to other people, because they don’t often understand what Green/Blue is doing.
What Mechanics do Green and Blue Share?
Lorescale Coatl
Despite Blue’s lack of creature mechanics, it still shares many of them with Green. They previously shared shroud, but now share hexproof. In Green it’s flavored as a natural resistance to magic, while in Blue it’s flavored as invisibility or a self-imposed magicproofness. Green and Blue also share flash, as Green has ambushing predators and Blue can tweak the nature of æther to summon things faster. While not a mechanic, the colors together often use +1/+1 counters to signify growth.
Off of creatures, Green and Blue share a lot of card drawing. Blue has straight-up drawing power, while Green’s version is usually tied to creatures. Both colors can also untap permanents; Green mostly untaps creatures and lands, while Blue untaps anything. Each color can clone creatures too, although Green usually only clones token creatures or searches for more copies of a creature you control. Finally, both colors can return their creatures to their hand.
How did the Simic Express Green and Blue?
Master Biomancer
Technically, there have been two Simic guilds. The original one was run by an Elf named Momir Vig, a brilliant scientists who developed a bioenhancement substance called plax. It was fused onto every Simic member (and experiment) and allowed them to share their powers between each other. The end goal was the assimilation of every member of the Simic Combine into the paragon of growth an adaptation: the Ooze called Kraj. Kraj was killed by Rakdos, however, and thus the Simic went extinct.
The Simic Combine was reborn, however, when sections of Ravnica opened up to the primordial ocean below. Called zonots, these regions erupted with Merfolk that had been dormant for millennia. They were much more controlled than Momir Vig was, seeking to combine animal species to facilitate evolution. A fusion like this was called a krasis, and it represented the core principle of Green/Blue’s “catalyst of change” philosophy.
What are Real-World Examples of Green and Blue Philosophy?
Glowing proteins were introduced into rat stem cells and implanted into infertile males…who were able to then produce fertile sperm carrying the genes for the glowing protein (glowtein?), proving that they had become fertile.
Some of the craziest parts of science belong to Green/Blue, the most notable of which is genetic engineering. It’s literally taking the building blocks of life, which are naturally occurring in every living thing, and tweaking them in order to incite a desired change. Pretty much any scientific endeavor that seeks to artificially control nature has a bit of Green/Blue in it. The other big one is ecological conservation, which pulls a lot of “don’t change this!” from Green’s philosophy. Since science, by definition, studies the natural world, any branch of science looking to tinker with nature has a variation that’s Green/Blue, not just biology.
Growth of the Self
In earlier articles I’ve hinted that I’m not as Blue/Red as I used to think. It took me a bit to get there, but I finally realized that I’m much more Green/Blue (which should have been a tip-off, has Green/Blue has trouble with introspection sometimes). A lot of my gut decisions are more instinctual than emotional, and my style of knowledge gathering is definitely in the “deconstruct the building blocks” style of Green/Blue. The good news is both answers were only half right, and I think I’m definitely a Temur (Blue/Red/Green) person. But that will have to wait for a future Temur article.
Join me next week, planeswalkers, when I tell an origin story.
Moan
Three: Your muse owns mine for two days.
"Oh my gods…well you own me for two whole days, Vorel."
"Alright, what do you have in mind?" she inquired. "I’m curious."
"For now, you are simply my personal laboratory assistant, you are to write down my observations and follow me as I check on some of our experiments."
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Three: Your muse owns mine for two days.
"Oh my gods…well you own me for two whole days, Vorel."
"So you are Simic property right now, I’m sure we can put you to good use."
"Yeah, I’m sure you can. Got any bright ideas?" she asked flatly and folded her arms. "It’s only for two days, Vorel."
"Two days should be sufficient," Vorel said with a smirk.
Moan
Three: Your muse owns mine for two days.
"Oh my gods…well you own me for two whole days, Vorel."
"So you are Simic property right now, I'm sure we can put you to good use."
♝:Reading a book together
Poison and Vorel had been reading a book together about the Simic’s history. “This is interesting. It’s also been a while, Vorel,” Poison said. “I can only imagine how busy you’ve been lately.”
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"Oh no," Poison said sadly. "Would you like some help with rebuilding it? I gotta wait till spring to make new flavors. My business is going well, by the way and sales are good. I’m also sorry for your losses, Vorel," Poison spoke solemnly.
"thank you for your offer, but we have a rather distinct process to rebuild, your help in that department is unnecessary. We certainly need help in the diplomacy part."
♝:Reading a book together
Poison and Vorel had been reading a book together about the Simic’s history. “This is interesting. It’s also been a while, Vorel,” Poison said. “I can only imagine how busy you’ve been lately.”
"Oh," she said disappointingly.. "Would you like me to speak to Jace about it? I’m sure he can help resolve this," she offered. "I could also speak to Emmara and Trostani, too, you know. That’s a shame that the extremists did that to your experiments. Did anyone get hurt?"
If you would speak to Jace about this, that would help. One of our labs was completely destroyed which resulted in five dead researchers."
♝:Reading a book together
Poison and Vorel had been reading a book together about the Simic’s history. “This is interesting. It’s also been a while, Vorel,” Poison said. “I can only imagine how busy you’ve been lately.”
Vorel frowned as he reached a page detailing the Kraj disaster. "Yes I have, we had a flare up with the Selesnyan guild, seems some of the extremists there took it upon themselves to blow up some of our experiments and Trostani was unwilling to reign them in."
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Vorel looked taken aback, "thank you."
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Ann sighed, trying her best to calm the half-mer. “Vorel, you guys really don’t have to… It was their fault, and once again, this was eight years ago. A slightly different time then, from what I understand. Less- less actual protocol, at least at the Zonot we were at. Which uh… I can’t actually remember which one it was… was it eight? no… seven…”
"I understand, but our goal is to improve Ravnica. and we will be forever incapable of truly realizing this goal if we fail to come to terms with those who were harmed by our prior actions. Just that know our offer will always stand if you decide to take it."
"Alright, alright, alright! I’ll keep it in mind! Just- don’t get so worked up over it, okay? I’d much rather figure out who killed my brother than get- reparations or whatever for my parents…"
Vorel gave a sad nod. “If you think that we could do anything to determine who did that, we would be quite willing to help you in that task.”
"Well, that was five years ago, so the trail is definitely cold."
"I am sorry for your losses then."
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Ann sighed, trying her best to calm the half-mer. “Vorel, you guys really don’t have to… It was their fault, and once again, this was eight years ago. A slightly different time then, from what I understand. Less- less actual protocol, at least at the Zonot we were at. Which uh… I can’t actually remember which one it was… was it eight? no… seven…”
"I understand, but our goal is to improve Ravnica. and we will be forever incapable of truly realizing this goal if we fail to come to terms with those who were harmed by our prior actions. Just that know our offer will always stand if you decide to take it."
"Alright, alright, alright! I’ll keep it in mind! Just- don’t get so worked up over it, okay? I’d much rather figure out who killed my brother than get- reparations or whatever for my parents…"
Vorel gave a sad nod. "If you think that we could do anything to determine who did that, we would be quite willing to help you in that task."
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"I’m- don’t look so guilty! I’m not upset, really! It was their own faults, they created the thing that killed them. They should have been more careful! Besides… they weren’t really raising me, anyway. Christian was. They were too busy with their work at the Combine to be home half the time…"
Vorel attempted to regain his composure, “Well we are still responsible for failing to provide adequate safety controls to keep our researchers safe. If you ever need anything from the Simic, it would be our duty to provide it for you.”
Ann sighed, trying her best to calm the half-mer. “Vorel, you guys really don’t have to… It was their fault, and once again, this was eight years ago. A slightly different time then, from what I understand. Less- less actual protocol, at least at the Zonot we were at. Which uh… I can’t actually remember which one it was… was it eight? no… seven…”
"I understand, but our goal is to improve Ravnica. and we will be forever incapable of truly realizing this goal if we fail to come to terms with those who were harmed by our prior actions. Just that know our offer will always stand if you decide to take it."
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Vorel looked rather ill now, “I know nothing we can do can compensate you for your losses, and we are deeply sorry for the tardiness of our offer, but we are trying to do what we can to make things right with people who have loss their lives in the noble search for progress.” He said as he looked down at his feet.
"I’m- don’t look so guilty! I’m not upset, really! It was their own faults, they created the thing that killed them. They should have been more careful! Besides… they weren’t really raising me, anyway. Christian was. They were too busy with their work at the Combine to be home half the time…"
Vorel attempted to regain his composure, "Well we are still responsible for failing to provide adequate safety controls to keep our researchers safe. If you ever need anything from the Simic, it would be our duty to provide it for you."
