Starter decks will also include one booster pack with 12 randomized cards, with one foil card and two cards with rare, super rare, or legendary rarity
To balance things if you are reducing modality you have to increase something else and for the most part here that is power
While this seems like a good pre-emptive countermeasure to azetsu222s problem, there are a couple of reasons its actually not
This caused so much consternation that Wizards created the Reserve List, a selection of cards they would not reprint so they couldnt increase the supply of certain cards, making them extremely rare decades later
For the purpose of building a manabase, colorless really is something like a sixth color, but most of the lands that cast those spells come with other sweet abilities, and painlands are a new sort of tri-land, which can, of course, just be used as a dual land
Feels like more of a 2-of that you sometimes can play for a small board benefit and to generate you some passive lore