­Abyssal Specter + Kraken’s Eye

Huh, Ice Age, and a spell from a set that's deliberately trying to be 4th edition. Nice.

Anyway, a powered down Hypnotic Specter (can't cast it turn-1 off a single Black Ritual, and 1 extra toughness doesn't stop it dying to Lightning Bolt) and blue life-gain artifact.

I could try "Even Alpha would have though twice about printing this" with "Whenever a player casts a spell, target player discards a card"

But yeah, not fun.

Could put lifegain-on-spell on a creature? You know, that feels like a thing that should be done. The life-gain-spell-rocks were always quite well liked by new players, but never lasted long once people started needing to trim their decks. As a small-bonus on a creature? More likely to find deck-space I think.

Modern-style makes this only your creatures. I think we're done here.

Hm. Yes. A sensible tweak on the Kraken's Eye cycle of lucky charms (Angel's Feather, Demon's Horn etc). It's... been done once or twice, but not in a way that fits into the lucky charms cycle slot: Kor Firewalker is mainly a colour-hoser, Sol'Kanar the Swamp King is a weird three-colour legend, and Apothecary Initiate was in a different cycle.

So yes, I could definitely see this cycle happening. I'm not sure if it'd come across as a bit of a colour pie bend, though. Blue cards are allowed to care about blue spells, but not normally meant to gain life (even though artifacts can). Maybe that's why Wizards haven't done this.

True, it maybe should be each colour gaining a different thing.