Wisdom is White. Black and Red are Hellbent. If all the cards were designed in a vacuum, and their power level was equal after that point, Black and Red would be the strongest two color combination. That's not healthy.
In order to encourage players to break from this obvious pattern, I put a smattering of tribal matters in White/Black and in Red/White. W/B got Gorgons persecuting Thrulls (I'd like to go on record that I wasn't the person who came up with Gorgons persecuting X in the community set. Just a weird accident.) R/W got a Soldiers subtheme. I also tossed U/G a bone in the uncommon slot, by adding a bunch of tribal Snake effects.
Wisdom is White. Black and Red are Hellbent. If all the cards were designed in a vacuum, and their power level was equal after that point, Black and Red would be the strongest two color combination. That's not healthy.
In order to encourage players to break from this obvious pattern, I put a smattering of tribal matters in White/Black and in Red/White. W/B got Gorgons persecuting Thrulls (I'd like to go on record that I wasn't the person who came up with Gorgons persecuting X in the community set. Just a weird accident.) R/W got a Soldiers subtheme. I also tossed U/G a bone in the uncommon slot, by adding a bunch of tribal Snake effects.