Fixing the Devoid Problem

Anus mana symbol and the devoid keyword are different things. <> spells don't need devoid since they're already colorless,

I don't think devoid is such a big mistake. Sure it's clumsy, but i can't really think of a better way to unambiguosly show "colorlessness" (you can't really print "this spell is colorless" on half the cards of a set, the colored card frame isn't clear enough and the color indicator doesn't really work in this case). Making devoid the sixth color is just a plain silly idea.

Anus mana on the other hand was handled pretty bad IMO. It generated plenty of confusion among plenty of people that still think you need wastes or specific eldrazi lands to cast <> spells.

>>54003510
BTW i get that
>you can't really print "this spell is colorless" on half the cards of a set
this point is kinda moot since that's what happened in the end due to wotc boner for reminder text, but at least the idea itself isn't that bad

>>54003510
How are you retards seeing an abuse in a fucking square. What is wrong with your buttholes?

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>>54003593
Making Devoid a keyword probably wasn't the greatest decision in the world but it's not like it was a catastrophe or anything. If colorless-matters ever becomes a thing again they might just stop using devoid and state that cards are colorless, or they'll pick it up again and I will give exactly one fuck.

Colorless doesn't need it's own design space. That's retarded. It's not a color. Design space is for colors.

>>54003239
>It's also a large step for Wizards to retroactively remodel everything that produced colorless mana as a (1) to generate the (<>) instead only to stay relevant for a single block regarding eldrazi
I mean, the thing is, colorless mana and generic mana were always different things. If anything, that's made the existing rules clearer on cards.

>>54003239
Seeing cards tap to generate the colorless symbol is so much more aesthetically pleasing than tapping to generate a number, though. We didn't get colored circles with numbers in them, so colorless having its anus makes everything consistent.

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>>54004150
>I mean, the thing is, colorless mana and generic mana were always different things. If anything, that's made the existing rules clearer on cards.
>>54004171
Seeing cards tap to generate the colorless symbol is so much more aesthetically pleasing than tapping to generate a number, though. We didn't get colored circles with numbers in them, so colorless having its anus makes everything consistent.

These are excellent points and I will agree that the inclusion of the symbol streamlines the aesthetics. What I meant by relevant was that it only truly mattered if it was Generic vs Colorless in BFZ block, and not even artifact-heavy Kaladesh required it on a single card.

>>54003899
>Colorless doesn't need it's own design space. That's retarded. It's not a color. Design space is for colors.

This is a valid viewpoint concerning the fragility of the color pie, and despite Wizard's frequent disregard to it, you can observe that they took great care that is parallel with your opinion-

Correct me if I am wrong, but I see that there are 29 "colorless matters" cards in the BFZ block:

Conduit of Ruin
Corrupted Crossroads
Cultivator Drone
Dominator Drone
Dust Stalker
Eldrazi Aggressor
Eldrazi Mimic
Flayer Drone
Forerunner of Slaughter
Gruesome Slaughter
Hedron Blade
Herald of Kozilek
Kozilek's Sentinel
Lithomancer's Focus
Molten Nursery
Nettle Drone
Pathway Arrows
Reaver Drone
Ruination Guide
Ruins of Oran-Rief
Sanctum of Ugin
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
Skitterskin
Sky Scourer
Swarm Surge
Thought Harvestor
Tide Drifter
Titan's Presense
Vile Aggregate

Most of the designs utilized involve "owning other colorless creatures" or "other colorless creatures entering the battlefield"- basically colorless cards that reward you for playing colorless cards, and outside of Hedron Blade, Pathway Arrows and Lithomancer's focus, there is extremely little interaction pertaining to colorless cards on colored spells.

The design space is in a very tight bubble-

Paying colored mana for colorless spells was the dumbest fucking idea ever.

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>>54004738
While it is heavily advised that colorless should not, in any case, be the "sixth color", there is a non-0% chance that Wizards will revisit this concept and treat it as such. The discussion encouraged is what they could possibly do to keep it from staying inside the aforementioned design bubble and avoid just being colorless for the sake of being colorless while borrowing from existing colors, making the interaction akin to that of artifacts-but-not.