Nocturnal Raid

A team pump that gates its bonus behind creature color: every off-color body sits this one out, and that restriction is meant to be the balancing lever. The trouble is that the lever was never enough on its own. At , this costs a mana more than a baseline overrun like Trumpet Blast, which hands +2/+0 to the whole team for three mana and asks nothing about colors. So the design is paying twice: once in the heavy color commitment, and again in the steep four-mana price tag. The +2/+0 across a wide black board is a real combat swing, and holding it at instant speed is the genuinely sharp piece: you can let an opponent commit to a block math that assumes your creatures are the size they were a moment ago, then widen every black body by two power and turn a trade into a blowout. But the scaling that should justify the cost only arrives when the board is already wide and already black, which is to say when you are probably winning anyway. It belongs to Mirage's early color-tribal overrun experiments, where black got a burst that traded selectivity for raw power and assumed the deck would supply the rest. The selectivity it traded away never bought back the mana it cost.