I don’t know I think the ritualistic part can also be associated with blue and I think would be more in line with a gentleman killer flavorfully. I actually think this would have for better in golgari flavor wise and mechanically. While Garruck was under the veil curse he displayed attributes associated with serial killers.
Rituals and patterns stuff can be both white and blue and a serial killer being white is one way to show that aspect of having to do killing in a ritualist/following a pattern. Maro has often cited character who do patterns or who have "ODC" like behaviors as white.
Mechanically this likely WB since WB in Innistrad is traditionally human based aristocrats with you wanting to sacrifice humans to power up monsters (which included was the black aligned humans).
I think this is more a case that they created the card before the flavor.
Oh very likely, but as a horror fan it still works with some of the tropes and real life stuff we know on killers.
I know people will get mad at me for this but I don’t think they should make too many cards like this for Innistrad. Innistrad is supposed to be a gothic horror plane and while I have nothing against the slasher genre I don’t think they mix very well together. It’s the same with the eldrazi last time we were on Innistrad cosmic horror is it’s own thing to.
Since Shadows Over Innistrad they had said that Innistrad is now a horror plane with gothic horror as its base, as they felt the first Innistrad took a lot of the gothic horror design and adding in other horror sub-genres helps give the sets more to stand on. Even in originally Innistrad they branched out of gothic horror with the black zombies being more modern version of them and stuff like Delver of Secrets being a Fly reference. They had even set up the comics horror with Reno and such being part of a cult of an old sea god and the pagan/folk horror themes we are seeing in the humans.
Genre wise a lot of modern western horror evolved from gothic horror/gothic writings (hovercraft was a gothic horror writer before evolving his wrote into what we now consider cosmic horror), so to me all the non-gothic horror stuff kinda feels like a natural extension of the genre.
I’m okay with little nods like this but to me it’s kinda like comparing Star Wars and Star Trek they are both sci fi but feel very different and should never be put in the same story. I just don’t think it mixes as well with slasher or cosmic horror. I think if human killers were to be represented on Innistrad it should be more of the gentlemen killer. But it all falls on personal preference in the end.
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Embrace the dark you call a home,
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
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I’m okay with little nods like this but to me it’s kinda like comparing Star Wars and Star Trek they are both sci fi but feel very different and should never be put in the same story. I just don’t think it mixes as well with slasher or cosmic horror. I think if human killers were to be represented on Innistrad it should be more of the gentlemen killer. But it all falls on personal preference in the end.
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone