Magic the Gathering (MTG), a popular trading card game, is highly customizable by the player, who can choose play styles that fit their preferences. Despite its popularity, there are few studies investigating why MTG players like playing what they play. We investigate how MTG players’ color preferences may be related to individual differences, such as personality, motivation to play, cognitive preferences and approach to life. We use a combination of psychological scales (to objectively assess) and self-reported relationships (to have players subjectively assess) for a relationship between color preferences and individual differences. MTG players completed a survey online with the psychological scales (e.g., the Big Five personality inventory) chosen to align with qualities of the five colors, rating questions of colors they like playing and how much colors match their personality and approach to life. Our results show a greater consistency between color preferences and perceived relationship with personality and approach to life and less consistency between color preferences and psychological scales. Some congruent findings were that white players were more conscientious and blue and black players like to provoke and irritate opponents, while incongruent findings include that blue and black players are risk-averse and red players were not impulsive. These results suggest that players feel that their color preferences extend their identities and that MTG could be both used as self-expression and as role exploration or escapism.