Each one costs you an Everlasting Debt token that can never be removed
While this doesn't get all the threats as Fierce Empath basically does this gets all the best ones and it does so for a mana less
[8] The five basic lands are as follows: White lands, or Plains, which produce white mana Blue lands, or Islands, which produce blue mana Black lands, or Swamps, which produce black mana Red lands, or Mountains, which produce red mana Green lands, or Forests, which produce green mana There are also different kinds of lands (dual-lands and tri-lands, for example), but the most a beginner needs to know is that basic lands produce mana of one color only, and that multicolor lands can produce mana of two or more colors
If Shards you control do become copies of the creature, they'll use the copiable values of the creature as it last existed on the battlefield
Sapphire has two key cards that act as payoffs for your extra ink: Belle, Strange but Special and Hades, Infernal Schemer
Sorcery - Arcane Color tag templates(None) Light Up the Stage Spectacle (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library