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How the ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel Explains Humanity

Move over, Myers-Briggs

Duncan A Sabien
Apr 3, 2018 · 30 min read
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Magic: The Gathering is a fantasy card game by Richard Garfield, Ph.D. and Wizards of the Coast centered on a “color wheel” in which five distinct colors in a particular order represent five different flavors of magic. How this works in actual gameplay is irrelevant to this post, which instead exists to explore the…

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Duncan A Sabien

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Duncan Sabien is a writer, teacher, and maker of things. He loves parkour, LEGOs, and MTG, and is easily manipulated by people quoting Ender’s Game.

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