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There definitely has been an increase in wordiness lately, though. Compare Chains of Mephistopheles' 50 words or Ice Cauldron's 86 to Runo Stromkirk's 95 or Cosima, God of the Voyage's 104. And, what's worse, DFCs hide half of the card at any given time. EDIT: Also, fun fact: even if you...

Oh man, I wish that this is actually what the card did. Spending 2 mana to make a bunch of artifact tokens would be wild. And broken. But wild all the same!

Geralf here seems pretty interesting. Not super powerful, but being able to turn Wall of Omens into (essentially) an Angel token is nothing to sneeze at.

@Morphling I think you mean Strixhaven there, if you're referring to the Mastery cycle. ... I'm mostly paying attention to this set because I like the pretty pictures, honestly.

So... Inner-Flame Acolyte? Swing in for 10?

As the person who normally bitches about that kinda thing... yeah, it would. The issue here is that Magic already uses the two "normal" ways of emphasizing text (bold and italics), so you'd have to, I dunno, underline the text or use sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs. EDIT: Or, heck, just use a...

Let me test something — would Cleave have been better if it had been something like... ? Pardon the crappy mock-up.

There is already groaning amongst the Standard players.

You got them the wrong way around. ... Wait, didn't we already get Summer Jace?

To be fair, I don't read the Secret Lair thread that often, because Secret Lairs make me a little sad.

"OK, guys, you're all going to have to check for Rötschreck." "Why?"

You need to swing in with Van Helsing to exile stuff, so it's going to have to be a slow sac combo. I like how they've finally started to remember that reanimation is something White can do.

First of all, why didn't anyone tell me that we were getting Dracula-themed Godzilla treatments? Also, something I hadn't noticed about Van Helsing here is that it's actually a reanimator card, and not just a weenie reanimator. Part of me now has the strong desire to use Savior of Ollenbock...

The effect would be way more interesting if it always applied to Villain's creatures if they are "alone", but it would probably need to be -2/-1 if it did that.

Mother May I is a Jeskai control deck with a bit of a human subtheme, and it's probably going to suck. We'll see, though.

Look at this fantastic wheel.

Like... yeah, sure, you can derive ℚ from ℤ, just like how you can derive ℤ from ℕ. And it's pretty natural to use the process of division that you learned as a kid while working in ℚ, to the point where, yeah, sure, if you wanted to solve x = 6 * 3⁻¹ in ℚ (which, if you're talking about "whole...

6/3 ≡ 6 * 1/3 ≡ 6 * 3⁻¹. It's not an "amalgam" — it's just that people figured out that having special terms for adding additive inverses to things and multiplying things by multiplicative inverses is really convenient. Mathematicians are incredibly lazy people, and we usually go for the most...

What level of math (for lack of a better term) were you studying at the time?

Yeah, they're effectively just some incredibly useful shorthand. Saying one is "right" and the other is "wrong" is even more pedantic than refusing to pass someone the salt until they specify that they're asking for sodium chloride.