Kevin, Dave.... This might apply to you from me about us....
If a Bayou is a swamp and a forest, and green is symbolized by life and nature, while black death and decay, isn't it a bit of a paradox?
The life flows through nature until the point of death and then decay begins.
If something is in decay, and death evades it, can the natural path return it to life?
I noted today that with a group of three duallands, all three shared a Jet/black link. The note too from Jef is that black mana is symbolized by cigarettes and 'the dirty little secrets'. The trine, then of the 'Jetness' was that we were all smoking, though the mix of the 'other half' was Red, Green, and Blue. RGB TV from CRTC on the DPD mon amie!
I have a concern about black mana in that I also recall a saying that 'the light is not always good, and the dark not always bad'. Then the ideas flow out to the Pearl to get away from the situation. In the grouping of a Badlands, an Undergroud Sea, and a Bayou leaves out the white mana (symbolized by order and protection). This would balance the power of force towards the Badlands as primary sake and also the Chaos and Fury that is representative of red mana. The Sapphire link then could band with the Emerald, who fuses the Ruby into the group of three, and the cigarettes flow freely.
Anyways.... this is how I understand things sometimes. I also tend to process verbally (or when writing) and note that I've got 7 minutes until the next point of black.
Good luck, God bless, and keep at 'er...
Robert
If a Bayou is a swamp and a forest, and green is symbolized by life and nature, while black death and decay, isn't it a bit of a paradox?
The life flows through nature until the point of death and then decay begins.
If something is in decay, and death evades it, can the natural path return it to life?
I noted today that with a group of three duallands, all three shared a Jet/black link. The note too from Jef is that black mana is symbolized by cigarettes and 'the dirty little secrets'. The trine, then of the 'Jetness' was that we were all smoking, though the mix of the 'other half' was Red, Green, and Blue. RGB TV from CRTC on the DPD mon amie!
I have a concern about black mana in that I also recall a saying that 'the light is not always good, and the dark not always bad'. Then the ideas flow out to the Pearl to get away from the situation. In the grouping of a Badlands, an Undergroud Sea, and a Bayou leaves out the white mana (symbolized by order and protection). This would balance the power of force towards the Badlands as primary sake and also the Chaos and Fury that is representative of red mana. The Sapphire link then could band with the Emerald, who fuses the Ruby into the group of three, and the cigarettes flow freely.
Anyways.... this is how I understand things sometimes. I also tend to process verbally (or when writing) and note that I've got 7 minutes until the next point of black.
Good luck, God bless, and keep at 'er...
Robert