As everyone quickly realized, turn two is simply too early in the game for such a life-and-death play, so Mana Drain was largely sidelined from the future of Magic
How do you apply more modernized styles of art/composition to illustrate the works of a writer like Tolkien, who dealt mainly with antiquities
Black life gain is often in the flavor of vampirism, draining the vitality from your opponent or creatures on the battlefield
Even in a depowered deck, you can find Salt Marsh, Jwar Isle Refuge, Frost Marsh, and Secluded Glen to make the other colors in a deck built around The Mimeoplasm or something
Of course, when you consider the degenerate Legacy Painter Combo deck it enables, that may be for the best
The Simic side is just two and prevents all of your spells from being countered this turn by spells...or abilities like the cycling trigger of Decree of Silence