Yeah, like vitenka said, 7 mana is the minimum where you get unconditional colorless removal

Both of those have the condition "You have 'win-the-game' mana available" as a condition :)

Four energy is a lot easier to reach. 8 still a bit easier.

I like the card; it's pleasing, and the trick is discoverable and a good learning curve.

Is it too cheap and too common? Maybe. It's certainly a scary good fit in a deck which has "This is my land-accel, it happens to generate energy. And this is my creature boost, it happens to generate energy. I guess ': Exile a target creature or two' is my energy sink."

> it's nearly unconditional removal and probably shouldn't be common anyway

That has little to do with rarity. Ie. Scour from Existence and Universal Solvent are acceptable commons.

Even if this required tapping, it's nearly unconditional removal and probably shouldn't be common anyway

It's also not common. The interaction where you spend eight energy to double exile is not common material in any way shape or form.

The change to is invalid and I reject it :(

Though wanting to use it as a background is the most sensible reason I've heard for wanting to change it.

Two things:

• is generic mana, not colorless mana.
• I don't recall seeing as a watermark ever. Could you link to an example?

There is. It is .

Hm, that's quite an omission, isn't it?

You can use a custom URL, like https://i.imgur.com/wBt6mC0.png , for the moment.

Short answer is hate, obsession, and obsession.

The key factor here is that I gave up on this. You could say I gave up on my hate.

It was part of me exploring the nature of colorless (artifact) cards. For some time I've felt that colorless artifacts are actively detrimental and should be used very rarely if at all. In Silmarillion WOJ, there are only 3 artifacts for that reason: Crystal Ball, Outcast’s Refuge, and Silmarils, Jewels of Fëanor. It's also noteworthy that artifacts are leeching of the mechanics of what enchantments traditionally do / should be doing since their very inception and given that the Silmarillion set is heavily enchantment favored/themed, I have doubly the reasons not to have artifacts there.

Regardless, with this "set" I was thinking, well, okay, what if I allowed colorless artifacts to do what they are currently and push it to the extreme? Have a set with no color. That will be bland obviously, so I was thinking of stuff on how to create different factions without the use of color. is an obvious choice, then you could have Waste tribal, and other stuff like that.

Looking at the notes, I've been going through artifacts and grouping them just to see if... I'm not sure... if there's anything they can't do?

One article of interest:

• https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/latest-developments/artifacts-and-color-identity-2016-09-30 // (https://web.archive.org/web/20210429081231/https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/latest-developments/artifacts-and-color-identity-2016-09-30)

This article I've marked as especially important:

• https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/just-artifacts-ma%E2%80%99am-2005-02-28

It looks I've also looked for the noncreature types as possible theme to split the cards into factions, such as Desert. These are from that post of yours from MTG Salvation btw.

• http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/custom-card-creation/675249-vision-object-types-subtypes-for-all-card-types

I had copied the lists of artifact types, land types, spell types, and enchantment types. Not exactly sure why though.

This is a long and seemingly pointless grouping. As it is, I think the set exists as my hate letter towards colorless nonland cards. Many of these cards are probably listed here because of my great disgust toward them.

ENERGY / PROCESS / X-0 Theme

• Wastes as the only land?
• Desert
• (Noncreature types set) - Market, Shrine, Temple

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?page=11&action=advanced&output=spoiler&method=visual&sort=cmc+&color=+[C]&type=+!["Land"]

Oh yeah wow, this links seems to indicate that I've stopped on the page 12 of colorless nonland cards listing from gatherer with the idea of going through all of them and grouping or whatever? "These are all the artifacts I hate" ? xD Or maybe I'm looking for some kind of themes?

ELDRAZI MANA

• Spatial Contortion, Warping Wail, Matter Reshaper

LIFEGAIN / DAMAGE PREVENTATION

• Dark Sphere, Elixir of Immortality, Golden Urn, Profane Memento, Ivory Tower, Ivory Crane Netsuke, Squee's Toy, Pendulum of Patterns, Sun Droplet, Bone Flute, Onulet, Forcefield, General's Regalia, Pristine Talisman

EFFICIENT VANILLA

• Memnite, Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, Shield Sphere, Endless One, Shifting Wall, Bonded Construct, Bonesplitter, Chronomaton, Brass Man, Hope of Ghirapur, Keeper of the Lens, Signal Pest, Steel Wall, Lupine Prototype, Myr Superion, Scrapheap Scrounger, Servo Schematic, Runed Servitor, Steel Overseer, Wall of Junk, Chimeric Idol, Chimeric Egg, Chimeric Sphere, Hewed Stone Retainers, Night Market Guard, Phyrexian War Beast

CHARGE

• Surge Node, Arcbound Ravager, Arcbound Slith, Arcbound Stinger, Copper Gnomes, Coretapper, Power Conduit, Energy Chamber, Jinxed Choker

INDESTRUCTIBLE

• Epochrasite, Darksteel Myr, Darksteel Plate, Patchwork Gnomes, Soldevi Sentry, Etched Champion, Eternal Scourge

BURN

• Walking Ballista, Aeolipile, Explosive Apparatus, Flamecast Wheel, Vial of Dragonfire, Moonglove Extract, Cursed Scroll, Magma Mine, The Rack, Barbed Wire, Copper Tablet, Scalding Tongs, Thumbscrews, Iron Maiden, Miser's Cage, Paupers' Cage, Jinxed Idol, Jinxed Ring, Livewire Lash, Mortarpod, Perilous Myr, Throne of the God-Pharaoh, Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs, Bontu's Monument, Caltrops, Consulate Turret, Cryptolith Fragment, Dynavolt Tower, Granite Shard, Leonin Bladetrap, Tezzeret's Simulacrum

OTHER

• Claws of Gix, Black Vise, Despotic Scepter, Delif's Cube (flavor look), Zuran Orb, Aether Vial, Glaring Spotlight, Glasses of Urza, Feldon's Cane, Hex Parasite, Skeleton Key, Crown of the Ages, Tel-Jilad Stylus, Chaos Orb, Conqueror's Flail, Dolmen Gate, Illusionary Mask, Illusionist's Bracers, Painter's Servant, Perpetual Timepiece, Revelsong Horn, Spellskite, Sundial of the Infinite, Toymaker, Armored Transport, Druidic Satchel, Lightning Coils, Ferropede, Staff of Domination
• Sword of X & Y

CLONE / COPY

• Eldrazi Mimic, Isochron Scepter, Strionic Resonator, Cogwork Assembler, Spellweaver Helix, Mirage Mirror, Rings of Brighthearth, Sculpting Steel

MARO

• Empyrial Plate

SCRY

• Lantern of Insight, Lens of Clarity, Mishra's Bauble, Witches' Eye,Sensei's Divining Top, Ashnod's Cylix, Darksteel Pendant, Brain in a Jar,Scroll Rack,Eye of Yawgmoth,Wand of Denial,Seer's Lantern,Crystal Ball,Lifecrafter's Bestiary

TAP

• Leonin Bola, Pacification Array, Meekstone, Juntu Stakes, Relic Barrier, Touchstone, Crawlspace, Deadlock Trap, Ebony Horse, Imi Statue, Ensnaring Bridge, Nuisance Engine, Orb of Dreams, Ring of Gix, Tumble Magnet, Static Orb, Storage Matrix, Tangle Wire

GRAVE HATE (Watchers of the Dead)

• Tormod's Crypt, Conjurer's Bauble, Relic of Progenitus, Scrabbling Claws, Sentinel Totem, Cranial Archive, Crook of Condemnation

RAMP / COLOR FIXING

• Mox Opal, Amulet of Vigor, Paradise Mantle, Expedition Map, Candelabra of Tawnos, Mana Vault, Locket of Yesterdays, Prying Blade, Sol Ring, Wayfarer's Bauble, Thran Turbine, Armillary Sphere, Doubling Cube, Grim Monolith, Guardian Idol, Helm of Awakening, Hedron Crawler, Manakin, Millikin, Journeyer's Kite, Lotus Blossom, Prophetic Prism, Mind Stone, Sword of the Animist, Walking Atlas, Ashnod's Altar, Basalt Monolith, Burnished Hart, Metalworker, Cathodion, Pilgrim's Eye, Cloud Key

LORD

• Metallic Mimic, Adaptive Automaton

SILENCE

• Cursed Totem, Damping Matrix, Null Rod, Chalice of the Void, Defense Grid
• Null Rod, Pithing Needle, Phyrexian Revoker, Sorcerous Spyglass
• Sphere of Resistance, Thorn of Amethyst, Torpor Orb, Trinisphere

LAND DESTRUCTION

• Ark of Blight, Winter Orb

GAIN CONTROL

• Avarice Totem

MILL

• Altar of the Brood, Pyxis of Pandemonium, Ghoulcaller's Bell, Shriekhorn, Altar of Dementia, Grindlock, Mesmeric Orb, Millstone, Sands of Delirium

TIME WALK

• Time Vault, Magistrate's Scepter

REMOVAL

• Brittle Effigy, Universal Solvent, Unstable Obelisk, Contagion Clasp, Pit Trap, Culling Scales, Umezawa's Jitte, Sandstone Deadfall, Helvault, Titan's Presence, Oblivion Stone

WRATH

• Power Keg, Ratchet Bomb

RECURSION

• Codex Shredder, Myr Servitor, Crystal Chimes, Crucible of Worlds, Skull of Orm, Phyrexian Grimoire, Soul Separator

DRAW / LOOT

• Liar's Pendulum, Candles of Leng, Scroll of Origins, Scrying Glass, Skullclamp, Culling Dias, Carnage Altar, Phyrexuab Vault, Howling Mine, Horn of Greed, Mask of Memory, Jalum Totem, Sunset Pyramid, Jar of Eyeballs, Filigree Familiar, Rogue's Gloves, Kyren Archive, Mindstorm Crown, Temple Bell

TUTOR

• Phyrexian Portal

COUNTERSPELL

• Jester's Scepter

DISCARD

• Specter's Shroud
• Disrupting Scepter

FLICKER / BOUNCE

• Obelisk of Undoing, Voyager Staff, Rishadan Pawnshop, Cloudstone Curio, Crystal Shard

PUMP

• Sacred Armory, Crown of Doom, Dragon Engine, Thunderstaff, Fabrication Module, Pennon Blade

FIGHT

• Triangle of War

UNTAP

• Magewright's Stone
• Thousand-Year Elixir
• Puppet Strings

KEYWORD X

• Vial of Poison, Bomat Courier, Bladed Pinions, Blight Sickle, Basilisk Collar, Gorgon's Head, Runechanter's Pike, Viridian Claw, Fleetfeather Sandals, Heart of Kiran, Hovermyr, Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Phyrexian Splicer, Prowler's Helm, True-Faith Censer, Sky Skiff, Smuggler's Copter, Aethersphere Harvester, Angel's Trumpet, Butcher's Cleaver, Chariot of Victory, Fireshrieker, Haunted Cloak, Loxodon Warhammer, Helm of Kaldra, Nemesis Mask, Quietus Spike, Sword of Vengeance