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Paying the costs for an ability or a spell is always the last step in activating/casting it, so I believe you choose the color before you tap Mother of Runes. Because neither player receive priority until after costs are paid this is of course nothing more than a technicality. The color is...

Did too? You might have missed it, but there's a "Yes" at the start of my answer. Everything after that is an explanation why. You have to make the choice of which color of mana to generate before you pay the cost of the ability. Since milling yourself is part of the cost, you don't get to see...

Yes. You announce the ability, make required choices (including, but not limited to, choosing targets, charm modes or the value of X in a spell), then pay the cost, then resolve the ability.

Oh, I see. Well, I think you can safely lower the cost to sacrificing two artifacts, or maybe even one? How does "{2}, sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card." sound? Maybe up the cycling cost to {3} in that case?

Ah, I see what you were going for now. Try this wording: Damning Demon {3}{B}{B} Creature - Demon Trample When Damning Demon enters the battlefield, destroy all creatures unless you pay 5 life. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated. 5/5 Or, for a vaguely related idea: Fell Sweep...

Is this unfair? Skeletal Golem {3} Artifact — Skeleton Golem Sacrifice two artifacts: Return Skeletal Golem from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) 3/3 Sacrificing three seems a bit harsh, and returning it to the battlefield is more...

Mayor is a human tribe support card in a third color, therefore I love it. If they ever print human support in red it's an easy cut. Hmm... Remind me to design a red human lord when I get around to printing custom nonland cards for my cube!

I don't know whether it is worse than Astral Slide (because it's a creature) or better (because it's cheaper and it can protect itself). I would seriously consider putting "exile another creature" in there. I read the rules text first and thought it a very odd combination, then I read the...

Fair enough. Overrun is an existing card that works just as well on offense I guess, and I cut that from my cube recently, so there's that.

Scavenging Ooze, Fauna Shaman and Mayor of Avabruck cry foul!

Only blocking creatures are out for the next round though, whereas Sleep keeps everything tapped. I don't know if I would want to play this at {3}{g/w}{g/w}, though possibly. It is certainly in better colors for the effect.

I don't recognize the llama. On which card is it?

Strong like Sleep? I mean, it's a reflavored and mostly restricted version of that spell in better colors for the effect. I think 4 is the right cmc really.

As if I didn't hate the "game" enough already. Brilliant article though!

And bad design does (see: Monopoly)

And also pretty cool

Devotion is awesome. I fully expect it to turn in a returning mechanic somewhere down the line. I also thought of a weird hybrid card... Smoke Bomb {2}{G/W}{G/W} Instant Play Smoke Bomb only during combat after blockers are declared. Tap each blocking creature and prevent all combat damage it...

I disagree.

Smokestack is awesome, I love that card.

Green is pretty good at supporting the token theme with token producers and overrun effects. It's also the natural color to support ramp and 5-color goodies strategies.