Re: Keyword 'Draw': "We increase confusion for what?"We'd gain some consistency. As the previous person noted, it'd put drawing cards in line with things such as scry, survail, and mill. It also would be adjacent to the changes from "enters the battlefield" to "enters." In the same way that the battlefield is the only thing that can be entered, cards are the only thing you can draw.I personally don't feel either way is inherently better, I just see the merit the previous post was getting at.

But we simply don’t template everything that involves a number like that. We don’t say Lifegain 3 and Discard 2 and Tutor 1.

Ever since Mill was made an official keyword action in M21, have there been any other Magic colloquialisms/slang you've also wanted to the same for? (For example, writing "Force" as a keyword on cards instead of "rather than pay this spell's mana cost.")

I have never heard people use the term “Force” outside of the specific card Force of Will, and even then, quite rarely. Is this commonly used?

Countably infinite does NOT mean finite. If you shuffled an infinite number of Clown tokens into your library, you would never draw another kind of card in that game. Infinity plus however many cards were in your library is still infinity. Imagine if you didn't shuffle. How many cards would be on top of the first real card? Infinite cards are on top, so you'd never draw the card. If you shuffled the deck, that would still be the case. There would be an infinite number of Clown tokens before and after each real card, because the chance of getting a Clown token between any two cards while shuffling is 100%. Not 99%, not 99.999...%, just 100%. Infinity divided by the cards in your library is infinity. You can never draw any real cards, because even if you took off the top card, infinity minus one is still infinity.Grenzo, Dungeon Warden would always hit, since there are an infinite number of Clown creature token cards on the bottom of your library. Since tokens have 0 mana value, you can't cascade into any real cards. You could mill out if you got hit by Tasha's Hideous Laughter. If you chose Land for Abundant Harvest, you would get one if you had a land in your library. However, if you got hit by Cut Your Losses, you would only mill Clown tokens, and no cards from your library. Infinity plus the number of real cards in your library divided in half is infinity, so you'd never get to the first real card, and you'd still have an infinite number of Clown tokens on top. Finally, if you happened to play Braingeyser with X equal to infinity, you would STILL not draw any real cards. Infinity minus infinity is infinity. You would have an infinite number of Clown tokens in your hand, and an infinite number of Clown tokens on top of your library.It's easier if you think of infinity as a description or a quality rather than a number. Treating it like a number infects whatever math you're doing with odd-looking results.

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Has it ever been considered to remove the word "card" from mill effects so instead of "mill 3 cards" -> "mill 3"

I think we save a word and increase confusion, so there’s not a lot of gain.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but batching is much like "mill" or "enters"; a form of shorthand that reduces the number of words that are required in the text box of a card while still leaving it legible. Thus, a card cannot care about a batched quality anymore than it can care about a "shortened description" a la mill and enters. It can care about the batch itself, much like a card can care about things entering and the action of milling, but it cannot care about the shortening of a description to save card space (while maintaining understanding).

The better example is the game can’t care about the nature of something being keyworded. You can’t say “All creatures with a keyworded mechanic get +1/+1”, for instance.

Which would you do to fix dredge? Make it so it only happens for your first draw each turn, or make you have to pay some mana to do it?

Not every mechanic needs to be (or can be) fixed. That said, in the hypothetical, I’d exile the cards rather than mill them.

I know it's early, but what do you think is the overall response to Rad Counters? I personally think it's a nice, flavorful way to give mill more of a presence on the board overall. Less I win out of nowhere/does nothing, more interaction with the rest of the board (proliferate, life drain, graveyards' ect)

Anecdotally, the mechanic has been liked.

Intuition is a blue card, and I feel like it’s a safe guess to say that intuition would be in pie for black. But what about green? Green is allowed to do some self mill stuff, so it feels like it would be a bend? Or would it have to only get creatures to be fair game for green?

The way we’re interacting with impulse effects (look at top N cards of a library, take <blah> and then put the rest in the bottom of the library in random order) colorpiewise is treating them like we would tutoring effects. Green can tutor for lands and/or creatures, so it can impulse for them. This is mostly due to us trying to lessen shuffling effects.

Would the new card “struggle for project purity” in pie for white? The brotherhood option is just the card “cut a deal” every upkeep, and although rad counters aren’t a very white mechanic, the enclave option is still a ghostly prison type effect, which white gets very frequently.

The brotherhood ability could probably be done in white. The enclave part is much more dubious. White taxing, with a few notable exceptions, usually create white outputs, and milling is fifth in white.

Was there any concern about The Millennium Calendar being hard to track in paper? In between asking you to count a subset of your permanents, add that to a possibly large number, and multiply, it seems like more fiddly math than any single card has asked players to perform before.

It requires a pencil and paper, but it’s not like doubling is a super complex math function.