Sets (VOW) Crimson Vow
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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).
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 convenient definitions for things.
Anyway, Magic talk:
I like this card. I mean, I'd like it more if it was just "At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn. Otherwise, create a 1/1 white Human creature token", but it is what it is.
Onderzeeboot
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That's just because that's an easy way to represent a fraction. You can easily see this need not be the case, for example:
(2 / 2 = 1) is equivalent to (2 * 0,5 = 1)
There, no division symbol used
Sweet card.
Although I am kinda unsure how a huge zombie scorpion eating a horse gives me card draw. Is it knowledge gained? Because I'm not sure I would even want to know anything about this procedure.
Onderzeeboot
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The horse actually belonged to a cathar on a recon mission, and the saddlebags were full of field reports! Sadly, they were sprayed with some scorpion poison, so you got hurt as you rifled through them.
Yeah, the flavor is a little weird.
And how do you mathematically arrive at 0.5 using whole numbers again? You are just swapping a different shorthand in place of using the division symbol (the decimel place to show you've previously divided 5 by 10). All the examples from mapi are the same. How do you actually mathematically solve 3 to the negative 1? 1 *divided by* 3 to the positive 1.That's just because that's an easy way to represent a fraction. You can easily see this need not be the case, for example:
(2 / 2 = 1) is equivalent to (2 * 0,5 = 1)
There, no division symbol used
Onderzeeboot
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The effect having decent value on an empty board is a good sign that this is a decent exploit creature (not overly swingy). As mentioned a really stacked slot...
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 numbers", you probably are), you'd do it by following that particular procedure.
But if you're working in, say, ℂ? Or something more exotic? Then you'll find that your intuition of what "division" is to be less helpful.
But if you're working in, say, ℂ? Or something more exotic? Then you'll find that your intuition of what "division" is to be less helpful.
Probably not.
At this point, enchantress really has the number of good cheap enchantments it needs to be a viable archetype. We've got great ramp via Utopia Sprawl and Wild Growth, card draw with Omen of the Sea and Abundant Growth, threats with Boon Satyr, The First Iroan Games, and Herald of Torment, and removal with White's abundant Pacifism and O-Ring effects. If someone wants to put an enchantment theme in their Cube, there are plenty of good cards to care about. The problem is that the payoffs aren't fast enough or are too fragile in many environments. The good enchantments tend to be cheap, but most of the payoffs for enchantments are expensive and only care about enchantments you play in the future. Something like Sigil of the Empty Throne has the potential to be very strong, but when you're wanting to fire off all of your enchantments before you cast it, you end up in a sad position.
So basically, we're looking for more efficient payoffs, not extra support. Unfortunately, VOW's support cards seem somewhat mediocre. Get a load of this guy:
So basically it's a mana leak that can cost
but only if you control an Enchantment and a Spirit. The rest of the time it's either exactly Mana Leak or Calculated Dismissal without the scry. That's not particularly great, especially when artifacts get the similar yet vastly superior Metallic Rebuke.Enchantments need an equivalent Emry or Urza, Lord High Artificer to become great in my opinion, and so far this set doesn't seem to have that. If it does, though, that would change things quite a bit.
I'm adding this to my Emotional Support Card module.
i really like it for pauper and artisan where woe strider isn’t an option. cool card
I think I like Valakut Awakening over this usually, but the ceiling on this is insane (and discards rather than bottoms)
Look at this fantastic wheel.
Chris Taylor
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Someone didn't go read vel's lore thread
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.
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.
Which is now upSomeone didn't go read vel's lore thread