Clean removal, protection effects, taxes, and board wipes are where the color really shines
Its just too easy to build a deck where the choice isnt really a choice for your opponent, especially when both cards you select end up in accessible zones
Final Fantasy summons were clearly made to work with Yuna, Grand Summoner, and you can see the difference spelled out: Yuna places +1/+1 counters on creatures as they enter, but when they die she just cares about any type of counters
With pick-two, no precons, and only 198 cards, this set is definitely odd, but its still a Universes Beyond release
If a card with a colorless cost has one or more colored mana pips somewhere in its rules text, then those colors are part of its color identity