Colors of Mechanics

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1		Text	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary	Note

2	Regenerate	The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.	Black and Green
3	Lifelink	Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.	White and Black
4	Double Strike	This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.	White and Red
5	First Strike	This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.	White and Red		Black (generally on Knights)
6	Exile	Exile target VALUE. Remove target from the game.	White (Usually with a drawback)	Black (Only creatures)
7	Mana Acceleration	{T} : Add [Mana] to your mana pool.	Green	Artifact
8	Land Type Changing	All VALUE are now VALUE. Optional: In addition to its other types.	Blue	Black	Red / Green
9	Flying		Blue and White	Black	Red (for dragons and phoenixes)	Green has some pseudo-flying effects i.e. "Flying on Your Turn" (Ledgewalker effects), and it occasionally gets actually flying creatures such as hornets (Hornet Nest, Hornet Queen) and the green dragons in DTK had flying. MaRo considers the hornets to be mistakes.
10	Milling	Target player puts the top N cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.	Blue, Artifact	Black
11	Direct damage	~ Deals N damage to target	Red	Black	Green (flying only), White (attacking/blocking creatures only)
12	Haste	This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.	Red	Black	Green
13	Lifegain		White	Black ("draining", i.e., after causing life loss or damage) or Green		Someone said "There is no design difference between green and white life gain besides lifelink"; But there are 123 non-white green cards mentioning life gain, and 322 non-green white cards mentioning life gain (287 of them without lifelink).
14	Stealing (permanent)	"Gain control of target VALUE" or "You control enchanted THING"	Blue	Black (only creatures)	Red
15	Anti Life gain	Damage can't be prevented and/or players can't gain life	Red (stop life gain)	Black (punish life gain)
16	Land Acceleration	Search your library for a Land VALUE card and put it onto the battlefield (tapped). Then shuffle your library.	Green (any)	Black (swamps)	White (plains), Blue (islands), Red (mountains)	White "Acceleration" tends to be dependant on an opponent having more lands
17		Look at target player's hand.	Blue	Black (when chosing to discard a card)
18	Can't be blocked	~ can't be blocked.	Blue	Black and Green
19	Land destruction	Destroy target land	Red	Black, Green
20	Discard	Card advantage via "Target player discards N cards"	Black	Blue		Blue is a "distant second"
21	Flash	You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.	Green	Blue	White, Red (if needed), Black (if needed)
22	Free Spells	Search library, play selected spell without paying its manacost	Green	Blue	Red
23	Uncounterable	~ can't be countered.	Green (creatures), Red (instants/sorceries)	Blue
24	Flowstone	{Cost}: ~ gets +1/-1 until the end of turn	Red	Blue	Black
25	Spell copying	Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.	Red	Blue		Recently, its been made so red copies spells you control and blue copies in general
26	Stealing (temporary)	"Gain control of target VALUE until end of turn"	Red	Blue	Black
27	Aura-based creature removal	Auras that get rid of creatures, prevent them from attacking or blocking, etc	White	Blue	Green
28	Flicker	Exile target VALUE you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.	White	Blue
29	Creature removal	Destroy, exile, permanent tapping or preventing attack/block	White (conditional) and Black	Blue (Aura-based)	Green	White can remove creatures that have harmed or threated white and has access to removal that can be undone.
30	Tutoring	Search your library for a VALUE card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.	Black	Blue (instants, artifacts), Green (lands, creatures), White (enchantments, Equipment), Red (sorceries, dragons)
31	Graveyard removal	Exile target players graveyard.	Black or White	Green	Artifacts
32	Curiosity	When ~ deals damage to a player, draw a card.	Blue	Green
33	Firebreathing	{Cost}: ~ gets +1/+0 until end of turn.	Red	Green
34	Two-Headed	~ can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.	Red	Green
35	Creature Tokens		White	Green	Red, Blue, Black
36	Enchantment destruction	Destroy target enchantment	White	Green		In theory, white is superior to green, but in practice it's not uncommon for they both to be equal.
37	Protection from ARTIFACTS		White	Green
38	Vigilance	Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.	White	Green
39	Drawing	Draw N cards.	Blue	Green (creature based), Black (draw has secondary costs)	Red (Exile top of library, can play it this turn)
40	Pump, Self	{Cost}: ~ gets +N/+N until end of turn.	Black	Green (Once per turn)
41	Can't block	~ can't block	Black	Red
42	Prowess	This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn whenever its controller casts a non-creature spell	Blue	Red	White
43	Fight	Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.	Green	Red	White	White being tertiary in fighting is based on a comment on Maro's tumblr and no cards have been printed with it.
44	Lure	All creatures able to block ~ creature do so.	Green	Red
45	-N/-0	Target creature gets -N/-0 until end of turn	Blue	Red (Conditional)
46	Exiling Spells on the Stack		Blue	Red (your own)
47	Scry X	Look at the top X cards of your library and put each card back on either the top or bottom of the library in any order	Blue	Red and Green
48	Library order manipulation		blue	Red and Green	Black
49	Menace	This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures	Black	Red and Green (can't be blocked by more than one creature.)
50	Trample	If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.	Green	Red, Black	All (huge creatures)
51	Landwalk	This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a VALUE.	Green	Red, Blue or Black (Own land type)	White (other land types)
52	Intimidate	This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.	Black	Red, Green	White, Blue
53	Defender	This creature can't attack.	Blue, White	Red, Green, Black
54	Fog	Prevent combat damage this turn	Green	White
55	Artifact Synergy		Blue	White (Own permanents)	Black
56	Anti-Discard		Green	White and Red	Blue
57	Tap	Tap target permanent.	Blue (does not untap during the next untap step)	White, Red(Creatures)		Seems like red is getting this effect lately, dunno if coincidental one-offs.
58	+1/+1 counters	-	Green	White, sometimes Blue	All colors (depends on block mechanics)
59	Cantrip	An instant/sorcery with "draw a card" after the main effect.	All
60	Protection from ENEMY COLOR		All			But this ability itself doesn't appear frequently.
61	-N/-N or -0/-N	Target creature gets -N/-N (or -0/-N) until end of turn.	Black
62	Draining	Target player loses N life and you gain N life.	Black
63	Extraction	Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.	Black		Blue, Red
64	Life Loss		Black		oy
65	Deathtouch	Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.	Black and Green
66	Controlling a player	You control target player during...	Black, Artifact			Only two cards with this effect have been printed so far - Mindslaver and Sorin Markov. Word of Command has been errataed to have this effect.
67	Additional turns	Take an extra turn after this one.	Blue
68	Bouncing	Return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.	blue
69	Counterspelling		Blue		White
70	Creature Copying		Blue		Black
71	Protection from OTHER STUFF		Blue			In theory. In practice, this type of protection is rarey seen.
72	Redirect		Blue		Red/White (Creatures)
73	Looting	"Draw N cards, then discard N cards" or the reverse	Blue (draw then discard), Red (discard then draw)
74	Hexproof	This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.	Blue and Green		White (enabled conditionally, or player hexproof)
75	Flying Hate	Damage to flying, flying removal	Green
76	Reach	This creature can block creatures with flying.	Green		Red
77	Super Trample	~ may assign combat damage as if it wasn't blocked	Green			Red used to get the ability to have its creatures deal damage to creatures the defending player controlled when they attacked; this ability may have been subsumed by fight. See Butcher Orgg, the Laccoliths, and Cyclops Gladiator.
78	Additional Combat Step	There is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.	Red		White
79	Attacks each turn if able		Red
80	Punisher	Let me do this or I punch you in the face.	Red		Black
81	Ritual	Add VALUE to your mana pool	Red		Green	Black will still get this effect sometimes, but in a different way. For example, Liliana of the Dark Realms, Crypt Ghast and Nirkana Revenant.
82	Artifact destruction	Destroy target artifact	Red and Green		White
83	"Kismet"	VALUE your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.	White		Green,Blue,Red (creatures)
84	Protection from COLOR	This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything VALUE.	White
85	Protection from CREATURES		White
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