There was an announcement of some Strixhaven cards over on the mothership (see this thread in the Rumor Mill) and it showed a couple of wording updates which will, importantly, save room on cards.
I am all for reducing word clutter, especially "converted mana cost" was not very elegant. What worries me however is the reason they are doin this. It seems like they held off changin these wordings until now because a change was not strictly needed. But now? Kaldheim ist already crazy complex, most cards are walls of text and many of the MDFCs are even two walls of text. Some complexity creep is unavoidable I guess, but this does not bode well....
Being able to fit more on cards is one result, but it also means that simple cards use fewer words too, which reduces the overall cognitive load when reading your hand or a pack in draft. For instance, these changes would have reduced the card text on 26 cards in Kaldheim, or about 10% of the set, but some like Horizon Seeker and Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire were already fairly straightforward.
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1. "converted mana cost" is now "mana value"
2. "shuffle your library" is now just "shuffle"
I like both of these changes a lot.
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