Color Pie Bends

Regarding "Origin of Synergy", this week's Limited Information article on the red-blue artifact theme in Magic Origins: Reclusive Artificer is red-blue but feels mono-red to me (haste and dealing damage). Ghirapur Gearcrafter is red but feels white or blue to me. (I can't even think of a red card that makes artifact tokens that aren't land mines.) Would you call these color pie bends?

The gold card is designed to encourage you in draft, to play the Blue/Red theme. You are correct the card could have been made in monoRed by the abilities but then it wouldn’t communicate the draft combination. As for the second card, Red is allowed to make tokens, it even makes flying tokens on occasion but those tend to be Dragon tokens. Small flying tokens is a tiny bend. The being artifacts is not inherently out of flavor.

Artifacts Artificer Bend / Break Blue Color Pie Colors Dragon Flavor Flying Ghirapur Haste Izzet (U/R) Lands Limited Magic Origins Reclusive Artificer Red Tokens White