I'm pulling away the curb because I drop my son off of college.

We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to answer a question I get all the time on my blog, which is why do we balance colors?

A lot of people are like, oh, let's make a set with, have one of the colors not there, have one of the colors more represented.

So I'm going to really delve in today into color balance.

I'm going to explain what color balance is, why we have color balance, and talk a little bit about why we're not so keen on having color imbalance.

And I'll even talk about the times we did do it.

Okay, so let's start with the idea of what is color balance?

Color balance actually meets a couple different things, but first and foremost, okay, we make a file.

The file has so many commons, so many we make a file. The file has so many

commons, so many uncommons, so many rairs, so many mythic rairs. With play boosters, we have 80 commons,

and we have 100 uncommonds. Rairs and mythic rairs don't matter quite as much. When we talk about color balance,

mostly we're focused on as fan of color balance. So it's common and uncommon that matter the

most. So let's get into what that means. So when I say color balance, when I make my file,

at common, I will have the same number of cards of each color.

So let's say, for example, if you have 80 commons, if you have 14 of each, is that right?

No, I did the math wrong.

If you have 16, 16 of each, 18, 18 of each.

The idea is if you take 80 divided by 5, which is, is that 18? No, 16. It's 16 of each. So,

assuming you have no artifacts, culos artifacts, or no lands, whatever, at common, you would have 16 of each color. And then at uncommon, so at common and uncommon, we are exact. If there are 16 red cards, there are 16 green cards, 16 black cards, 16 blue cards, 16 white cards.

An exact number. And if we have multi-color in the set, so let's say we're doing enemy colors, for example.

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