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Yeah, but look at the cards which were in the GrimJar deck. Grim monolith Mana vault Voltaic key Dark ritual Lotus petal Mox diamond Memory jar Megrim I think the fast mana was the culprit. One tournament sealed the fate of the wrong card and it got retroactively added to the previous ban list...

Blue is the one which most easily can be a 2 for 1...

Hmm. The issue is that the opponent makes the piles suboptimal given the knowledge the opponent has... This often leads to 4 cards vs 1.

hesitation. It is not weird, just be careful it is a great combo protector

We haven't seen it written before like this is a fallacy. We haven't seen cleave before... Write it such that it is clear to the reader. We all live and learn. How it is written in the past does not matter. The original (kicker) one is great! Less mechanics/keywords is often better!

Quicksilver dragon

Welcome to wotc money grab bomb cards... In their goal to have no negatives for one player (the caster) they actually made the game less fun due to the times you could not do anything against a card... Even a very bomby card like worship has more counterplay since it does not present a clock...

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).