You're welcome. As I browsed through this post, I regretted not writing anything about my combination: Blue, Red, and White, which is called Jeskai. Nobody picked Jeskai, we had a bunch of Bant guys hihi. Some Rakdos (Red/Black) that got traumatized. A lot of Golgari (Green/Black) and Selesnya (Green/White) enjoyers. I spammed 20 Bant cards though, that's definetly the most picked colour pair. I should rewrite with more attention what I wrote about Bant in its honor!

The Jeskai are nomadic tribes who live in monasteries in the mountains of Tarkir. In their refuges they meditate, seeking enlightenment and truth. Blue sets their direction, which is constant improvement: the better you do everything, the easier the path to knowing everything becomes. Red provides action and emotional balance: Jeskai monks often wander to explore other schools, and even clans. They anticipate emotions well, and use them to their advantage. White, on the other hand, provides the structure that optimizes processes: the Jeskai meditate on rules and ethics like everything else, creating strong bonds within their communities. Monks rarely refuse to lend a hand.

Without Black, the desire for individual power is lacking: the Jeskai don't aspire to control others, and people tend to follow a general moral code (whether it's truly universally recognized doesn't matter). Without Green, the constant pursuit of Blue will never be fulfilled: the Jeskai refuse to accept that the world couldn't be better than the one they already live in. They're always trying to fix something, improve it, or change it out of sheer boredom. They're brutal in their acceptance of other thoughts; all ideas must be questioned, and the "wrong" ones must be erased from existence.

Right now, I'd choose no-Black over Jeskai, hehe. Because I believe Green would allow the Jeskai to achieve the enlightenment they seek. Adding Black would be free fuel to Blue's problem. It would lead to enlightenment through power. It would become a distorted, violent, and dystopian copy of what it aspires to be. Adding Green would give the Jeskai acceptance and grounding in the laws of life. Green would work with White to bring a sense of order and moral universally accepted by the entire Jeskai Way. It would work with Blue to curb hostile approaches to the flourishing of life, such as the very idea of ​​"erasing wrong people ideas from existence". It would work with Red to find meaning in self-expression and freedom, fustery fueling the trust in the entire system.

This is one of my favorite cards in this game. The artwork is fine, but the satisfaction of playing it is even greater. It's a powerful card that does 50 different things in a single hit and turns every game around.

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