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You could add Safewright Quest as a quasi-précédent.
Personally I'm a fan of all of your card draw examples. In the midst straightforward situations, with only one on the battlefield, they're just card-for-card. Mentor of the Meek is the one that breaks this most easily, with tokens. But white needs at least a little help in that area, or it just drowns. It's already a bit difficult to play mono-white in EDH without at least that much.
Premise
Tithing Plains is something white should be able to do—cards like Gift of Estates, Tithe, and Oreskos Explorer provide an unique gameplay element without affecting the color pie adversely as they don't really provide color fixing nor "true" card advantage for
. By "true" CA I mean that this way 
can't draw it's threats and answers. Also, 
in all likelihood it has the least amount of unique mechanics, so any potential distinct things for it to do should be valued very highly.
However, I also think that
could use that fetching element without the tithe restriction. This also reduces complexity in general here making this an aspect of the pie that's more readily usable at lower rarities.
I would much rather have a colorshifted Gaea's Bounty in
rather than cards like Bygone Bishop, Mentor of the Meek, Kor Spiritdancer, Mesa Enchantress, Puresteel Paladin, and Sram, Senior Edificer.
Notes
This would not allow
to ramp or to fix its mana base.
Color Shifts
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Flavor
In flavor, I think that "raw power" is better represent by pure card advantage, were as knowledge is having the right answer(s) at the right moment.
Notes
Actually, I would like to reduce shuffling in general so instead of tutors I would have more cards like Dig Through Time.
This shift also indicates an increase in general draw effects in
.
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Color Shifts
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Colorshift of Viridian Acolyte.
See (((Red Color Fixing))).
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would copy creatures you control.
would only copy creatures (and other permanents) that you don't control.
See "Copying creatures in Green".
Flavor
copying your stuff would be flavored as pack mentality, evolution, breeding and growth: pretty much all the things commonly seen in the color already.
would copy stuff your opponents control since it isn't interested in making "more of the same" or mass producing. So 
would be reverse engineering and garnering new ideas from outside sources (stealing someone else's good ideas).
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Convert mana to any color. Neutral in total mana amount unless it's a ritual card.
Flavor
From flavor stand point, this would be one of the few effects to describe
's artistic side that's often left in the "Hulk smash!"'s flavor's shadow.
Color Shifts
Notes
This does not indicate that mana dorks could/would be
.
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