What if: Magic Had A Sixth Color?

I can't make any non-standard mana symbols on Magic Set Editor, so I've done the best I could with the tools available. Just imagine it as purple.

Welcome back to Magic Academy 2.0! I am your host, Salivanth, and today we're going to be concluding the series on color by talking about the last color, Purple. You can find the link to the white portion of the series here, the blue portion here, the black portion here, the red portion here, and the green portion here. 


From the Magic 2010 excerpt:

Purple is the color of exile. Many of it's mechanics relate to exile, and it is the only color than can bring cards back from exile that weren't sent there for a particular purpose, such as Oblivion Ring. Purple can deal with any type of permanent, but it's usually only temporary, or it's quite expensive.Purple goes well with white, because white exiles cards. Purple is also the master of time, able to skip phases and even turns. Since Time Spiral, it has exclusively had the Suspend mechanic, which exiles a card for a certain number of turns before it can come into play. Purple is a clever and powerful color. It's allies are white and blue. It's enemies are black, green and red.

Purple's race in M10 is the Tempalken, offshoots of the Vedalken who were sent out for their experiments with time, which the vedalken believed was not to be tampered with, for fear of the consequences.


Purple has a lot of ways to use exile for their own gains. The most simple one is exiling cards, but other colors can do that. Purple also has the ability to give up time later in order to play a cheaper spell. Example:



Okay: but we want ways to USE exile. What's UNIQUE to Purple? This.




Then there's the pumped up version:



Purple is also a control color. Here's a card that makes waves in Standard as a piece in the popular MirrorStag combo deck:



The combo focuses on exiling a Mirror of Fate (which it does by self-milling along with graveyard exiling) and playing a Stagnation. Next turn, it plays Mirror of Fate, sacrifices it, and you get all the cards in your library except for seven lands exiled. Then you can play any card in your deck, and it's basically impossible to lose.

Purple's second main power is the power to manipulate time. Whether through sacrificing it:



such as with Temporal Bandit, a Johnny creature, or through gaining it, with the more tournament-worthy Time Warp.




Lastly, Purple has the Suspend mechanic in it's M10 arsenal. Time Spiral gave it to all the colors, but Purple got it back after that set. Here's a suspend card that can ONLY be suspended:



And that's all we have time for today. Join us next week as we delve into Strategic Attacking and Blocking.

Until next time, may time be on YOUR side.