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This is the Black card in my Elemental Incarnation cycle. It represents the ultimate essence of Black - self-sufficiency.

Black's ultimate goal is self-sufficiency. It wants any given individual to be capable of acting on his or her own desires (this isn't quite the same as Red's goal; Black is fine with an individual keeping others down to keep him/herself up, but Red wants everyone to be free.) If an individual's desires involve being selfless, Black can condone that, as long as selflessness is the path that the individual in question chose to follow; Black is not happy about any efforts to coerce people into being selfless or to enforce selflessness (both things that White has a penchant for doing). But for the most part, Black is the selfish color. It's perfectly happy with our dog-eat-dog world (or, rather, it is willing to accept that that's the way the world works); its philosophy is that the strong have every right to ruthlessly exploit the weak, and should have no qualms against doing so... and to the weak, all it has to say is "Sucks to be you, losers!!!!!!!!!" Black seeks to obtain the power to fulfill its desires, and to obtain that power at any cost; it is relentless in the pursuit of that goal. As such, Self-Sufficiency has the power to regenerate not only itself, but also its controller; it can prevent its owner from losing the game, for any reason, but only once per activation of its ability. Self-Sufficiency is built to be the ultimate black card, so its power, toughness, and mana cost are all obscenely high.

The artwork is "Vicarious Self-Sufficiency " by . According to the artist, it depicts a world where people are self-sufficient, simply because they have to be; a world not unlike our own.

For more on Black's philosophy, check out this article .

Description
This is the Black card in my Elemental Incarnation cycle. It represents the ultimate essence of Black - self-sufficiency.

Black's ultimate goal is self-sufficiency. It wants any given individual to be capable of acting on his or her own desires (this isn't quite the same as Red's goal; Black is fine with an individual keeping others down to keep him/herself up, but Red wants everyone to be free.) If an individual's desires involve being selfless, Black can condone that, as long as selflessness is the path that the individual in question chose to follow; Black is not happy about any efforts to coerce people into being selfless or to enforce selflessness (both things that White has a penchant for doing). But for the most part, Black is the selfish color. It's perfectly happy with our dog-eat-dog world (or, rather, it is willing to accept that that's the way the world works); its philosophy is that the strong have every right to ruthlessly exploit the weak, and should have no qualms against doing so... and to the weak, all it has to say is "Sucks to be you, losers!!!!!!!!!" Black seeks to obtain the power to fulfill its desires, and to obtain that power at any cost; it is relentless in the pursuit of that goal. As such, Self-Sufficiency has the power to regenerate not only itself, but also its controller; it can prevent its owner from losing the game, for any reason, but only once per activation of its ability. Self-Sufficiency is built to be the ultimate black card, so its power, toughness, and mana cost are all obscenely high.

The artwork is "Vicarious Self-Sufficiency " by . According to the artist, it depicts a world where people are self-sufficient, simply because they have to be; a world not unlike our own.

For more on Black's philosophy, check out this article .