i assume (i hope) this changes after you know how to play the game, but reading magic cards always feels like im trying to decipher an ancient riddle in a language i dont speak
"destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls" those are just Words. What are you Saying to me. where did Grammar go. What The Fuck. i feel like im having a stroke
@annieversary magic has standard ways of phrasing things which do seem confusing to a beginner but after playing for a while makes it alot easier to understand cards quickly
@alyx@annieversary Yeah, it absolutely is a code, but it's WAY clearer than if every card tried to explain what it did in natural language according to whoever wrote the description that day. (1/3)
The first couple would make sense, but then you'd read one that seemed to do what another one did but referred to something differently, and it wouldn't be clear if two types of cards were equivalent in context, or if an action described differently was the SAME action and could both trigger a desired effect, etc. (2/3)
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