I think the biggest issue is, based on things MaRo has said about it, they plan to periodically change the pool of abilities available to the card.Quote from SavannahLion »Unless WotC goes out of their way to make our lives miserable, someone is going to crawl AskUrza.com and catalogue whatever is there. Hopefully WotC will realize this and let us snag all the abilities in one go or package it up into something a little cleaner to consume.
Regardless, it would have been nice for them to make an AskUrza app that allowed us to access it offline (app updates could cover changes in the ability pool). There are going to be a lot of annoying cases of people not having internet access for some reason or another that's going to kill this card outright.
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That's not how infinite candinalities work.
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Infinitesimals do not meaningfully exist!
*Grumbles in Mathematician's Cant something about 0.999...=1*
This is the hilltop I will die on, dammit. They are a teaching tool for calculus and worthless in pretty much every other context.
Tabak sleeps like a baby because MaRo is the official silver-bordered rules manager. I'm equal parts excited and frustrated by this card as someone with a deep interest in mathematics, which is apparently it working as MaRo intended.
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And some are more mind-numbingly convoluted than others!
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That's because it's the only reasonable assessment there is. Pi is a silly, impractical number that should burn for all of eternity.
I mean, it's also irrational since all transcendental numbers have to be. This way they get a bonus pun out of the deal.
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As a rule, if you can come up with something "better" in under five minutes, it's probably nowhere near as good in practice.
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But that's not at all what's going on.
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