#1378: Getting the Banned Together, Part 7

It was, let's see.

In August of 2019, banned in Modern, Faithless Looting.

Sorcery for one red mana.

You draw two cards, then discard two cards.

And it has a flashback of three and a red.

So one of the things that we're always looking for is...

So we like the color pie.

We each want each color to have its own abilities and we want them to separate.

And regular listeners know that the color pie is really important because we want you to have to go to different places for different things.

But sometimes what we realize is that there's something that we do in one color that really could be in more than one color.

Although one of the things we like best is when we can do things in different colors that are similar but slightly different for flavor purposes.

And the perfect example is looting.

So looting is an ability that we've done in blue for a long, long time.

Looting basically means I draw a card and I discard a card.

Maybe I draw more cards and I mean, I can sort of filter sometimes.

But the idea essentially is I'm drawing cards, discarding cards.

It's not that I'm going up in cards.

I'm kind of going up in card quality, not in total cards.

It's not card advantage in the traditional sense that I'm not, I don't have more cards.

But I can trade lesser useful cards for more useful cards.

So I'm going up in utility.

It's what we call card utility.

So I was trying to figure out, I wanted to get more card utility into red.

Um, so we're like, well, you know, red, red does have some of this temporary sort of stuff.

And so we said, what if we put looting in red? So we made faceless looting.