I have never played Magic but MathBlade tried to teach it to me awhile ago, and while I was never really hooked on the game and I would rather play yugioh, I feel like I have a grasp on how each color wants to win the game.
So what are the colors and how does each color want to win the game.
Red
wants to win the game through aggression. As a red player, you want to rely on your aggression to be able to force the other players to get what you want. Generally speaking, this strategy is a great strategy early in the game but it can run out of gas later in the game. If a red player does have a late game, that late game is going to be rather volatile late game that was able to be reached due to the tempo gained in the early-mid game. You want to narrow down the interactions in the game and win before your opponent can do anything or make what they are trying to do irrelevant because that's not the angle you're fighting on.Blue
wants to win the game via control and superior resource management. Essentially, what a blue player wants to do, is they want to be able to lock other players inside a cage and starve them of their own resources. The blue player makes an attempt to understand and account everything before it happens and have answers ready. A blue player doesn't want to kill you unlike a red player, but rather a blue player just wants to make you concede. Blue doesn't want to win the game but rather not lose. Generally this would be scaling color.Green
wants to win the game via getting to a very specific point in the game or by enabling and setting up your teammates for success. Basically, they're the supports. Within the game of mafia, if you are playing in a way where you help your teammates become as succesful as possible and try to support your teammates, then that classifies as green.I'm not sure how to explain the first point within the game of mafia, because while in games like in Magic green will be able to drop cards that cost more earlier then the other decks and in league of legends, you'll generally find that most support champions are classified under green due to their items being significantly cheaper.
Black
wants to win by meeting certain conditions. I feel like these categories of players are where you would find the hypercarries or ego players. Big personalities that basically warp the gamestate just by existing and they require the game to accomidate to their existance. If black players can't do this, they're going to suffer a lot. If a Black player is put in an environment where they can thrive, its super good, if not, its super bad.White
I feel like
Red
/Blue
are the main primary strategical approaches to the game of mafia and Green
/Black
are more supportive colors. White
However there are more supportive colors as well and these are generally what makes a player's playstyle unique. The Primary colors are the when that player is best, and the supportive colors are how they play. I feel like its important to note that generally speaking, most players will be either
Red
or Blue
, but there may be some unique cases where another player may be Green
, Black
, or White