Time Ebb

Mechanic Sharing Among Colors

How come some not-used-often mechanics can be shared (like P/T switching in blue and red) but some cannot (like Excommunicate/Time Ebb in white and blue)? If you can't tell, I like super-unsummon in both white and blue. :-)

We tend to overlap more on creature abilities and less on spell abilities.

Blue Creatures Excommunicate Humor Mechanics Red Time Ebb Unsummon White

Color Identity Shifts

Time Ebb was blue at first, then you made Excommunicate in white, then said the ability was back in blue with Griptide and Totally Lost. Now we've had Unexpectedly Absent and Quarry Colossus. Is it white again? White and blue?

It’s supposed to be blue.

Blue Excommunicate Griptide Quarry Colossus Time Ebb Totally Lost Unexpectedly Absent White

Mechanic Color Identity

9th edition had Time Ebb ("Put target creature on top of its owner's library."), M10 and M11 had Excommunicate, ISD has Grasp of Phantoms and DKA has Griptide. White, blue or both?

We had a meeting about this not too long ago. Put from the battlefield to top of library is a blue thing and not a white thing.

Blue Creatures Excommunicate Grasp of Phantoms Griptide The Library Time Ebb White

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