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Sure, you have more cards to choose from if you go with more colours, but you also complicate your mana base

Maybe it would see better use in decks that go wide with tokens and use equipment as a side theme instead of in Voltron decks

When the evoke elementals were spoiled in Modern Horizons 2, people waxed lyrical about how broken Grief with Ephemerate was going to be, but in practice that interaction did not make any material impact on the format, and instead its been more commonly combined with Fury and Solitude in the Four-Colour Yorion, Sky Nomad decks

Spirit Mantle is great for defending against creatures, Indestructibility is an obvious one, Curator's Ward defends from Path to Exile, and the totem armor from Hyena Umbra lets Bruna survive a board wipe