Right now it’s impossible to play a fair deck without banking on white/black removal. Additionally, white and black have access to the best hate cards, the best graveyard hate, and the best sideboards overall. I’d say if you’re not using some sort of hyper synergy to win (faithless looting, tron lands, valakut, burn decks, etc) then you essentially have to be in white, black, or both. Blue Moon is the perfect example of a fair deck that will always be tier two because it can’t realistically dispatch the formats threats in a timely manner and the countermagic of the format isn’t good enough to cover every angle.
EDIT: @The Fluff, color identity is a part of the game for a reason. Players generally have a preferred association with certain colors or aspects of the color pie and want to encapsulate those in their style of play. While not everyone is like this, being able to play the colors you want competitively in every format would be a huge win for Magic overall. It’s pretty simple I think.
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EDIT: @The Fluff, color identity is a part of the game for a reason. Players generally have a preferred association with certain colors or aspects of the color pie and want to encapsulate those in their style of play. While not everyone is like this, being able to play the colors you want competitively in every format would be a huge win for Magic overall. It’s pretty simple I think.