Inspired by a 1987 result of Hanson and Toft [Edge-colored saturated graphs, J. Graph Theory 11 (1987), 191–196] and several recent results, we consider the following saturation problem for edge-colored graphs. An edge-coloring of a graph F is rainbow if every edge of F receives a different color. Let R(F ) denote the set of rainbow-colored copies of F . A t-edge-colored graph G is (R(F ), t)-s...