Color Spotlight: White

Ok, I'm going to spend the next few posts on this spotlight, so feel free to comment as much as you would like. Each post will just outline one of the strengths/weaknesses of white. I'll cover color combinations in different spotlights.

The first quality of White I see is:

Healing/Damage Prevention: White gets life easily, which can help a lot in longer games. It has creatures that give you life when they come into play, creatures that tap to prevent damage, spells that give you life, spells that give huge advantages to blocking creatures, spells that prevent damage, etc.
This makes it good against some of red's techniques, because it can counter things like Shock or Lava Axe more easily, and help prevent the fast win. But white is different from blue in that it prevents the early game by healing and damage prevention, as opposed to counterspell. I think that white is also more inclined to use creature abilities rather than instants/sorceries, which seems different from blue.