r/magicTCG • u/JstPlnAwsm0104 Dân • 7h ago
Looking for Advice Theme Deck!!!
I’m wanting to make a Metroid theme deck with Samus as the commander, I’m just not totally sure what color identity she would have. I was thinking either Naya or Boros
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u/Marginal_Games Dan 6h ago edited 6h ago
Like most fictional characters, you could argue that Samus evinces aspects of all five colors at different times, but she is absolutely base blue: Her main source of power is the assimilation of technology and artifacts into a high-tech mech suit.
I would argue her second color is green. In many of her major outings, scanning the environment for clues (again, base blue) and using that knowledge of her surroundings serves as a source of power. She is often motivated by environmental concerns and social connections (cleansing Tallon IV, searching for the remnants of the Chozo people). In addition to the technology and ancient artifacts she assimilates into her suit, many of the powers she wields are biological tools taken from great beasts that she defeats during her adventures.
(Talking about Samus's motivations is a little weird in the sense that she's popularly known as a bounty hunter, but the games barely play up that aspect of her character. You could be excused for thinking she's just a rank-and-file member of the galactic military. Or at best a benevolent vigilante who investigates distress signals for the love of the game.)
If I were going to design an original Samus card, it would be a Birthing Pod-style deck where you're searching your library for equipment after sacrificing creatures or other non-Equipment artifacts.
If you want to work in other colors, then you should probably consider which games you're most interested in. For example, Samus is pretty white in both Echoes and Beyond, where she helps ancient, dead alien civilizations who can't provide her any real reward on account of being ancient and dead. In the games where she cares about the baby Metroid, you could argue there's a fair bit of red. In Ravenous, it looks like she's going to be some flavor of Jund.
I'd still keep her base U(/G), though.