When I first tried with this sunburst-y concept, Alex didn't like it. Of course, the first time I tried it, I paired it with Intimidate, which, sure, intimidate is a black mechanic, but it doesn't feel black black. It is, after all, just another evasion.

So let's try this again with a mechanic that's rarely splashable. Hey, Alex! Does this card feel better now that you know that you probably wouldn't get this mechanic on a card? (also of note: You could play with worse creatures when packing mono-black...)

Did I? I'll take your word for it.

As for this one: Hmm. So in monoblack it's a Headhunter for . In black-blue it's a Dimir Cutpurse for without the card-draw. In tricolour it's a 3/3 for 4 coloured mana.

Not really very good at any of those points, but broadly passable at all of them. It may be it's only worth playing with the Coretapper equivalent from the set.

­ is still very odd with sunburst. It's like "Play lots of colours! Oh, but be sure you get double black." There is some space for that; Unscythe, Killer of Kings, Necromancer's Covenant and Dragon Broodmother have been in similar areas. (The first two are in my Five-Colour Zombies deck.)

Hmm. I'll have to sit on this. I definitely get the argument. I think this is more of a "I need to see what people think of these if there are 5 of them and they pop up in a draft. Does it groove... do people get that it's sunburst, but centered on one color... or do they just hate it." I'm thinking hate... but if they don't, that opens up a lot of... well... it's not really design space. More like development space?

Upped to card at random... since I'm pushing the power level of these guys, and it's more BB anyway.