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A cost of 3CC isn't strictly easier to pay than a cost of 3CD. Needing multiple colors is a drawback, but needing a stronger dedication to monocolor is also drawback. In the case of Scarwood Goblins . though, it's the difference between the 1C of the usual Grizzly Bears and CD, for no extra benefit.

Also bizarre about the Scarwood Goblins is the proto-reminder text (used only for three multicolor cards of The Dark), the use of the plural (despite the art blatantly showing a single Goblin), and the reversed color order (which admittedly wasn't really standardized yet).

Feb 17, 2013 -- 3:55PM, thatmarkguy wrote:

oh, and Tobias Andrion , your multicoloredness is the reason why you're strictly inferior to the four classic Elementals, at the same CMC but requiring two different colors?

Not to mention Serra Angel .

Look at Vaevictis Asmadi . Basically a 7/7 firebreathing flyer (albeit firebreathing in three colors) for...8 mana in three colors? Double-colored all the way? And I have to pay one of each of those colors every upkeep? And it's legendary, so if you're using Unholy Citadel , Adventurers' Guildhouse , or Mountain Stronghold , congratulations on putting the worst lands in Magic (stfu Sorrow's Path , at least you do something) in your deck, but I don't see how that will help you.

There was also a creature-phobia in those days. Compare Juzam Djinn (one of the best creatures of Arabian Nights) to Phyrexian Scuta or more recently Phyrexian Vatmother and Deadbridge Goliath .