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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.

Ouch. Yeah, luckily you can choose not to play it. Still, not playing a card is a bad outcome.

The assasin is a prime example of how hard it was in the early days to play mono green. Those pesky utility creatures were a pain. Still, it is a very fair card.

Sharpie it to target creature?

Diabolic Servitude Exiles so no shenanigans. That said. A combo of 3 cards, which costs 5 mana to scry one and draw one is actually okay in my book. If it happens everytime then yeah, brake it up. But maybe remove the life gain draw creature?

Yeah I knew these two. Unlike the llanowar elves variant you most likely never want more than a few of these weird ones in your deck. For Umbilicus and the elves I can understand the desire to have more than 4 copies in your deck.

Yeah, I am surprised they gave it a new name. Almost like they want you to build a cube with it...

You mean Umbilicus? It works great with your own etb, but also the opponents ones.... Furthermore, if most of your cards are cheap or grim monolith then it is a great card. However, it is only for slow cubes. It works well with stack synergies like Tangle wire I think those strategies are...

Note that in the old days blue was often not strong as mono color. It was/is great in card drawing and stealing. They shit the bed when they added strong creatures to blue. Also some mistakes were made by letting blue be the artifact color ally instead of the new kiddo red. The feeling I have...