Magic Origins

[Lemnear]

They could do spell master thoughtseize or counterspell. On the other hand, if Firey Impulse is the target power level, it'll probably be Darkblast and Unsummon.

I want a spell mastered Duress with a minor buff like Scry 1 or returning the black mana invested to the manapool. Thanks.

Opt itself is already officially marked as "too powerful in standard" by WOTC staff.

So a weakened Serum vision/Opt is the best you could expect.

And ritual effect has "permanently" moved to Red from Black.

No, 1cc cantrips are bad ideas at this point as they get adopted by Legacy. Stuff like Telling Time, Impulse and Co see no play in Legacy or Vintage and seem bearable for Modern as well. WotC just needs to fill the gap between 1cc cantrips and 3+cc cardadvanatage spells in their arsenal of potential prints.

Don't talk about effects/colorpie. WotC fucked this up back then, never stuck to the changes they promoted and never fixed them either. The last playable mana-acceleration printed in red is from July 2006 and the last time they used the black ability to use lifepoints to balance out low mana costs was with Dismember. Greens supposed to deliver land based acceleration but what it really is about we can see looking at Magic: Origins Nissa. WotC destroyed all color-identity and the result for example is that black is solely about discard, destroy non-black creatures and overcosted 5/5 demons with drawbacks