I'm Yoni Skolnik, and it was my immense privilege to lead the initial phase of game design for Magic: The Gathering FINAL FANTASY
However, its usually correct to play all three colors even with the additional pressure of colorless pips on your manabase since the synergies around devoid and eldrazi cards is so significant
But when I told Richard that it would have to be a Dwarf because there were no Goblins in Odyssey (man, it's interesting how dumb that sounds with knowledge of what was coming), he asked us to hold the card until such time we had Goblins again
There were a lot of people who had very strong opinions on the card
Arlinn, the Pack's Hope is a four mana Planeswalker that enters with four Loyalty
King TChalla, much like Black Widow (above), gets you card draw as your opponents draw cards, which is always welcome (were all about Panther parity here)