Remember the Fallen

Color Pie Assessment

Do you consider Remember the Fallen a color pie break? As far as I can tell, it is the only White card that can unconditionally return any creature from the graveyard to the hand.

It’s more bend than break. White returns small creatures to the hand all the time.

Bend / Break Color Pie Creatures Remember the Fallen The Fallen The Graveyard White Your Hand

Understanding Abilities Placement in Colors

Good morning MaRo!I recently read through the 2021 Mechanical Color Pie article and had a question.How did you go about placing abilities within Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary for each color?What basis did you use to decide placement? What takes precedent? For example, White gets Raise Dead at secondary, yet hasn't gotten a card with exactly that ability in Standard since Remember the Fallen in New Phyrexia.

A couple things: 1) Primary/Secondary/Tertiary can vary in meaning based on what mechanic/effect it is talking about. The terminology exists to show how good colors are at things in contrast, but the amount of that thing can be a wide range.2) Often, colors may have access to an effect, but not always the full effect. White gets Raise Dead effects, for instance, but mostly for cheap creatures.

Color Pie Colors Creatures Mark Rosewater Mechanics New Phyrexia Primary Raise Dead Remember the Fallen Secondary Standard Tertiary The Fallen White

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