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My favourites Smokestack or variants. Or pox like stuff...

Spells/abilities only fizzle (gets countered) when ALL targets are removed. If one is removed the other two will return.

The monk class only reduces 1 colorless, so one could not have enough blue mana even though the second spell can be cast cheaper.

If they do not kill it, they die by the judge. It has vigilance and flying so in most cases it demands an answer. I like it a lot. Sweet mini game and it breaks open board stalls in an original way. It is fair since you have 3 turns before it starts attacking and when you have to kill it you...

This is a strong card! I remember reading an article of mr Rosewater on oddesey block and somewhere in there stood that threshold was not a great mechanic, since it requires keeping track of something you are not used to... Seems they made an 180 on that assessment.

I like them too. A word of warning, the apprentices of the invasion set made combat calculations very hard. To many of these choice cards will complicate the board tremendously.

It is true that changing zones makes it forget what it exiles. See the new legendary frog, it croaks it's way around this forgetting rule.

Not strictly. Basic land (instant) vs land (sorcery). If you have many non basic lands in your cube/land box that distinction could be important

Funny that you mention clean and elegant. Cleave is neither, split or kicker for these cards would be (at least for me). It is mentally taxing since I have to read it first with the brackets which is a bit hard to grok and then read it while removing the brackets which is again a bit hard.

Hmm, cheap is relative of course but I do not find (eternal/paper) competitive magic cheap. It is very much pay to be able to compete and often the more expensive decks are better (burn is a great counterexample)

That was also my defense. Still, no bueno. As stated above you can use to the power minus one instead of division. Ah well, I still graduated so all worked out.

University. The course was one of the many first year math courses you get when you study is almost only math, e.g., math, physics, and so on.

Well, it was a math study. And although it was a bit pedantic, it was stated in the book of the course. Serves me right by making the exam without reading the book, eh. It could help some people with remembering the 0 case (division by x, x unkown).

Actually, there is (not sure anymore about this) no subtract and no dividing by (definitely sure) as my professor told me when I asked what I did wrong on a exam. Only adding and multiplying. I divided by something instead of multiplying by 1/something...

I do not know how to post the vampire legendary. I like the abilities. It encourages attacking and is quite balanced. A bit mana wise expensive, a tad weak, but the ability is strong and fun

You mean stdev.p, stdev, stdev.s and many others? I will not whine about excel, but this naming, and the minor difference is exactly what I mean by mistakes will be made...

They all do very similar things, with some small tweaks. Maybe kicker is broad, but having many different functions which are similar makes reading programming code a pain. Especially if you revisit the code for the first time after a while. Many times it is easier to code 2 lines which are easy...

Where to begin? When not talking to someone in person it is harder to communicate. Sometimes a message gets lost, sometimes some information is suddenly added by the reader. Nowhere did I say that the unique mechanics sell sets. I only said they wanted (or a better word, increased) the amount...

No point not proven. It could be that it is more flavorful (Is it really? If you have to use a name of the mechanic to sell flavor you are doing something wrong). However, it brings unnecessary mental load. In standard it won't matter at all, but for cubes or eternal formats it is an unnecessary...

It's just another kicker variant, similarly to overload. I am confused why they need different names for essentially the same mechanic.