The Tricolour Theorem

The June 2023 design contest came in with tons of tricolor groups. Mainly due to the fact a tricolor group won May's competition and the lack of tricolor focused groups. But people fail to do so because of its weird color pie chart, Here's a guide in case you want to make one.
Tricolor gives you more freedom of effects, where as:
* Rainbow (Primarily focuses on stud gen.)
* Mono (Does what it's supposed to.)
* Duo (Quite limited in its own right,some are locked into a specific playstyle.)
Because you have access to 3/4's of the colors, effects aren't really an issue. You should only have an extra color if:
* Your group needs a large variety of effects to work.
* A gimmick requires another color.
* Covering Weaknesses that otherwise be too much in numbers.
* More card variety.
It is why duo color was really popular. It's easier to manage and adds enough variety.
Here is what I suggest regarding the costs for tricolor groups:
* A Tricolor Group starter should always be costing only white studs so it prevents bricking and could be cast no matter what.
* A Benefiting card should have a dual color cost, and the card color should be the last cost the card's costs didn't cover in your tricolor group to access other cards.
* The Punisher Card shouldn't be too expensive in all colors, but you could work Colorless into it, a ratio of 1:3:2 is acceptable.
* The win condition should have a range of each stud from 2-4, and a minimum of 8 total studs. Colorless also could be worked into it.
Unless you intend for your group to be really small, cheap and easy to fit in a deck, this is an efficient formula.You could have your group mostly monocoloured cost early game so you don't have to bother about cost management,like dwarves and world of wood for reference.
A tricolor group should always have one of these: generation of extra studs, a massive give/draw engine, good ramp or encouraging discarding. No matter the group, you will always have the problem of managing studs. Tricolor should have at least one of these to make up for management of studs.
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