Another angle is to play with some of those suspend cards with no mana cost, like Ancestral Vision, Crashing Footfalls, Resurgent Belief, Lotus Bloom, or Mox Tantalite, and get a zero-mana creature in the graveyard for Ellie and Alan to discover them with
While all the legendary creatures well be looking at have black as part of their color identity, I am going to cover a spread of different color combinations so you can choose the one best suited to your goals and playstyle
This card could see play in a casual or themed deck where the art theme is a central focus, adding a fun and flavorful element to gameplay
They're kind of like number words
You see this objectively with the Battle-Shadows year, but the same scheme was used for Khans-Dragons the year before (even though that was technically the last three-set block)