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If you're going that route would "When target permanent spell enters the battlefield, put it into its owner's graveyard" work?
Too bad you can't pull this off with a short and funky wording like "Target permanent spell becomes world." That would have been a sight to behold, but the world rule doesn't work that way, and the other SBAs can't succinctly be invoked and/or introduce extra side effects.
The atomistic bit might be clearer as just: 
: Target a creature.
But if the colourless bit is important... yeah, you're a bit stuck. Dunno what to suggest.
I suppose my worry is that, if someone like me opened a pack and saw this card, he or she would immediately ignore it just because the tap ability seems so meaningless. On top of that, this ability is only meaningful against Black, which is supposed to be Blue's ally. And on top of that, colourlessness is a better fit with White's flavour in this set (since White represents the Universalist philosophy that holds that everybody is governed by a single overarching moral order, all Colour philosophies are meaningless, etc.).
I really like your suggestion Alex. It sells the flavour better than what I have. And triggering LTB abilities seems like a plus, since it makes the drawback more relevant. Changing it right away.
Delightful effect. I don't know if the rules handle it either. Presumably you'd want Pandemonium and Warstorm Surge to still trigger; and if it was a Zombie spell, Noxious Ghoul similarly. And Torpor Orb should still stop them all.
Hmm, how about this wording?
Counter target permanent spell. If that spell is countered this way, instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard, put it onto the battlefield, then put it into its owner's graveyard.
This does have the drawback that it triggers LTB abilities such as Protean Hulk. But unlike Flash, at least the card has to be cast in this case.
This is effectively "Tap enchanted creature: Untap target permanent", which is usable in some circumstances.
:) I like it, that's very appropriate for the name, and an interesting ability (if one that won't usually matter).
My best guess is that if the permanent spell is at the bottom of the stack, it's clear, but if someone played a flash creature with an ETB effect in response to doom blade, and the creature is countered with this, it's ambiguous. You could probably find alternative wording, though.
Here's me biting off more than I can chew. There's a good chance the rules cannot make sense of the words I've used here. Keep in mind that this drawback should be relevant in this block since I'm working with a lot of of ETB abilities.
In thinking about what begging the question would look like as a card, I figured that the caster would assume that his or her spell was already cast before he or she cast it. Which means the triggered abilities should go off. It's a big stretch, I'll admit.
I figured I'd try to fit at least one reprint into each colour.
I'm not at all confident in this card. Atomistic Metaphysic is pretty sketchy on its own, but adding the tap to make colourless ability makes this card seem very confused. But I need to give creatures tap and target abilities so that Atomistic Metaphysic is relevant. Instead of attaching a useful tap ability to this card, I went with something that seems reductionist, that is, rendering other creatures colourless. This will be relevant against some Black cards in the set, but it's pretty wimpy all the same.
Here's my jump variant. It's hard to make an interesting jump, especially after leap offers a full cantrip. So I took the easy way out: drugs.
One edit to my post on Innistrad: the reason I believed morbid only triggered as an ETB was because the first morbid card spoiled only triggered that way. I guess I should actually read the rules.
And one thing to add. The new garruk has a non-loyalty ability. Now that that's allowed, maybe planeswalker design will be interesting enough to be worth trying? If only they didn't require investing in a meta-narrative.
Cool! Such synchronicity! Weird that we both hit on flying, since it's a little awkward with this trigger. That said, in a set with a lot of flying (like the community set) being able to block flyers is more relevant. Really I only chose flying to fill out Blue's quota for common flyers.
It seems like Shroud would be a better keyword for this trigger since it's a keyword that does most of its work on your opponent's turn. That way you really want to manage to draw a card on your opponent's turn, especially in response to his or her shock. Maybe I'll do that for a Green common.
Funny. This is the exact same mechanic I recently submitted for our community set design, right down to only gaining flying when a card is drawn on Flying Bears (See my comment at the bottom.)
Innistrad has Morbid. Given that it's a graveyard-oriented set, it makes sense to have a lot of goes-to-the-graveyard triggers. LibraryPlane is a library-oriented set (in theory, at least), so it makes sense that it have a lot of library-oriented triggers. So here's the debut of 'whenever you draw a card, do X' (debut in this set that is, although it's interesting to note that this particular trigger is somewhat rare. Looking up 'whenever you draw a card' on gatherer only yielded Hoofprints of the stag, jace's erasure, lorescale coatl, moonring mirror, niv-mizzet, the firemind and psychosis crawler). I didn't think an ability word was necessary though.
Now is this the right card for the trigger? Probably not, since you'll generally be attacking with it anyway. This is just a Blue way to say '~ can't block flyers (except in certain circumstances)'. Welkin Tern and co. seem to want to remind players that they should be used offensively, and this card accomplishes the same thing, albeit in a roundabout way. Also, there are cards that deny draws, like Sophistry at common, so the restriction may be relevant here and there.
This was an attempt at a very narrow top-down design. In thinking on Blue for LibraryPlane, I constantly had this picture in my mind of little imps flying books to the tops of bookshelves. So here's that card; it only bothers to fly when it has a book to return to its place. Hopefully I can convey this flavour via the picture.