#mtg creature types

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Characteristic Creature Types in Enemy Color Pairs

Has anyone else noticed this happening a lot lately since Magic Origins? Let’s take a look at some examples... 

Green/Black Elves (Magic Origins) 

(thank you Lorwyn) 

White/Red Dwarves (Kaladesh) 

Blue/Green Merfolk (Ixalan) 

Black/White Zombies (Amonkhet) 

Which leaves us with the obvious question... 

Red/Blue Goblins WHEN?!* 

*not counting the Izzet, because Ravnica has gobins show up in every color combo that includes red 

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@markrosewater recently posted his next "Head-to-Head" on Tumblr, and as a HUGE fan of "Animal Folk" creature types, this round has me really excited! So excited in fact that I decided to write down my predictions about which race will win each stage and post them here for all to see! (My guesses are the second photo, obviously.) What do you all think? Want to add your own predictions here?

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Type Cast

Anybody here interested in some Magic: the Gathering trivia?

Magic currently has three creature types that appear only on legendary creature cards (and no, creatures with the “Changeling” ability don’t count.)

Without looking it up, how many of these creature types can you guess?

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Did I spend too long figuring this out?

Yes. Yes, I did. 

So... Hey, Commander 2016. You wanna remedy any of these? 

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Kaladesh Karacteristic Kreature Konundrum

Creature types have been a part of Magic from the very beginning. While the mechanical relevance of creature types varies from one set to another, but the flavor relevance is consistently a major part of world building on virtually every plane. 

A few blocks (like Lorwyn and Innistrad) have a "tribal theme" that feature creature type as a major focus of set design. More often though, a set will include some tribal synergy for one or two creature types, but not as a major focus. (For example Minotaur tribal in Theros and Warrior tribal in Tarkir.) 

My point is, creature types might matter less in some sets, but they always MATTER. 

Other than Humans, Thopters, and Constructs though, I have NO idea what kinds of creature types to expect on Kaladesh. Specifically which characteristic creature types. 

For those not familiar with the term "Characteristic Races" are humanoid creature types that typically show up in specific colors at common. Though it's not often that all five will appear in a single block, most sets feature at least two or three. 

Currently, the five characteristic races are: 

White - Humans 

Blue - Merfolk 

Black - Zombies 

Red - Goblins 

Green - Elves 

Of all the humanoid creatures in Magic Origins, the only ones from Kaladesh were humans. 

That in and of itself isn't really an issue. (With ten different planes featured in Magic Origins, we only scratched the surface of Kaladesh.) 

But what is an issue is that given the real-world cultural influences for Kaladesh, it doesn't seem like any of the other four characteristic races would really fit there. 

So what will we see? Is this going to be a set with only humans, artifacts, and non-sapient creature types? Will we some of the beloved alternative characteristic races like Viashino, Thrull, Djinn, Fungus, etc? Or will we see the introduction of some entirely new humanoid creature types?! 

I genuinely have no idea what to expect, and I'd love to get everyone's thoughts. The first Kaladesh spoilers start next week, so this is our last chance to share truly baseless predictions. 

LET'S SPECULATE!! 

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Your Characteristic and Iconic Creature Types

In Magic: the Gathering, each of the five colors has its own Characteristic Creature Type and Iconic Creature Type. 

The Characteristic Creature Type is often seen as the most common race that aligns with that mana color, and as a whole, lives according to the philosophy of that slice of the color pie. 

The different Characteristic Creature Types for each color are: 

White - Humans 

Blue - Merfolk 

Black - Zombies 

Red - Goblins 

Green - Elves 

The Iconic Creature Type on the other hand, is typically a big, powerful creature that is found more at rare or mythic rare, but exemplifies the epitome of that mana color’s philosophy. 

The different Iconic Creature Types for each color are: 

White - Angels 

Blue - Sphinxes 

Black - Demons 

Red - Dragons 

Green - Hydras 

OK, so where am I going with all of this? 

I want to know your personal characteristic and iconic creature types! 

Let’s say you had your own special little corner of the color pie to call your own. What creature types would we find there? 

I’ll start... 

Dave’s creature types: 

Characteristic - Kithkin 

Iconic - Treefolk 

So how about you?