Barrage Tyrant

Devoid Mechanic Explained

Why can Devoid cards be given a color without first removing Devoid? The rulings on cards such as Barrage Tyrant have me confused. It feels like destroying indestructible cards without first removing the keyword or blocking a flyer without first clipping their wings.

Devour is the absence of color, not the removal of color. If I have no shirt, and then put on a red shirt, I have a red shirt on.

Barrage Tyrant Blocking Colors Devoid Devour Indestructible Keywords Red

Eldrazi Mechanics Shift

In the original Zendikar, Eldrazi and their Drones were separated mechanically in an obvious way (colored, small, creates/enhances spawn, vs. colorless, huge, annihilator). In BFZ it's much more blurry (besides processors) with Eldrazi being colored and smaller. There's even an Eldrazi that's smaller than a Drone was (Rapacious One, Barrage Tyrant), which seems wrong to me. Was this a conscious change?

Kelly, the creative person in charge of the creature types, did have hard and fast rules about what is what, but there is a little bit of subjectivity.

Annihilator Barrage Tyrant Colorless Creatures Drone Eldrazi Processor Rapacious One Rules Spawn Zendikar

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