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CardName: Savior of the Dreaming Dead Cost: {4}{W/B}{W/B} Type: Creature - Spirit Knight Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: Flash, Intimidate When Savior of the Dreaming Dead enters the battlefield, exile all creatures that died this turn. each player draws cards cards equal to the number of creatures they control. Flavour Text: The dead are never to be forgotten, but never to be roused from their slumber. Set/Rarity: Hizoria Rare
Savior of the Dreaming Dead
  Flash, Intimidate
When Savior of the Dreaming Dead enters the battlefield, exile all creatures that died this turn. each player draws cards cards equal to the number of creatures they control. The dead are never to be forgotten, but never to be roused from their slumber.
Illus. theDURRRRIAN
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The card draw effect is a green-blue one: Biomantic Mastery, Collective Unconscious, Regal Force, Shamanic Revelation, Shaman of the Great Hunt. You could try to argue it in black based on Minions' Murmurs, but the lifeloss is key to that being okay in black; you could try to argue it in white based on Mentor of the Meek, but that's widely regarded as a colour pie violation.
eh, even WOTC breaks the color pie sometimes.
Mentor of the Meek is regarded as a color pie violation? Really? It's part of a long line of white card parity, like Puresteel Paladin, Kor Spiritdancer, and Mesa Enchantress. I never thought of any of those as breaking the color pie. This and Sage's Reverie, though, seem like breaks to me.
Maro has mentioned Mentor of the Meek as being not great before. Sage's Reverie is top-down "what would be good in my Uril deck?" which is not how cards should be designed. When WOTC breaks the color pie, they hurt the game.
Unrelated: this card's name makes me think of Homestuck every time I see it.
Mentor of the Meek isn't really card parity, given it works with tokens (and that's how it's normally used). I think the official line is that enchantresses like Kor Spiritdancer are within white's pie but Mentor of the Meek is outside it, though I'd have a little difficulty putting my finger on the difference.
Maro always says something that breaks the pie is bad, as he pretty much worships the color pie, but at the same time, just about any green player i know probably wouldn't say that Hornet Queen, one of the latest cards to break the color pie, is hurting the game any.
The green players you know don't care about the bigger picture, they just like that they got a powerful card. That's the difference between being a player and taking on the responsibility of being a designer. As a designer, you have to care about the health of the game before it starts to decline. As a player that's not something you worry about until the designer has already failed at his job.
Green players love Hornet Queen, Beast Within, and Song of the Dryad because they give them out-of-pie answers to things green doesn't generally get answers to. That doesn't make them okay, or mean that they're good designs.