Six Color Magic uses six types of mana. The new color is violet, the color of isolation, discovery, knowledge, science, engines, metallurgy, and the earth, and the color most in tune with artifacts. Violet's symbol is a gemstone. Violet is the new Johnny player psychographic color, as it enables far more unusual playing styles and combinations than any other color does. These attributes used to be represented in blue; Six Color Magic shifts blue's focus to innocence, freedom, escape, time, air, and water, and away from academia, knowledge, magic-changing, and artifact support.