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CardName: Numerological Persecution Cost: 1B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Destroy target creature with even power or odd toughness. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Set Uncommon

Numerological Persecution
{1}{b}
 
 U 
Instant
Destroy target creature with even power or odd toughness.
Updated on 11 Sep 2015 by Jack V

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2012-02-17 00:49:55: Jack V created the card Numerological Persecution

What else were pseudo-greek cultures famous for? Early maths. I don't think this one can be printed, but maybe something with similar flavour?

I smiled. I was looking for a follow-up to my "Too many Spikes!" card called "Too much Melvin!" This sentence feels like it belongs somewhere on that card.

It's kooky, but I like it, and wouldn't kill it for that. We'll see if we have the room for it. I'll have to think about some sort of early maths card myself. "Travel the Hypotenuse" sounds like an awesome name for a card...

Hahaha! A bit silly indeed, but something with similar flavour could be good.

Travel the Hypotenuse {b}

Instant

Destroy target creature if the square root of the sum of its power squared and and it toughness squared is an integer. It can't be regenerated. Its controller loses life equal to that integer.

"sqrt( P2 + T2 )? What is this I don't even?" - Goblin mathatician

I didn't expect superscript to work; that's cool. Also, (sic).

Bwahahaha. Is only really likely to hit a 3/4 or 4/3 creature, but it'd be worth it for that one occasion you get attacked by a 35/12 or 60/11... or perhaps worth giving an Autochthon Wurm a Defensive Stance for :)

In fact, Belbe's Armor goes awesomely well with that... :)

(And yeah, I'm slightly surprised that my text-processing library turns caret-numeral into superscript too, but it is indeed cool :) )

Opponent: I cast Autochthon Wurm! Surrender now!

Me: I pay {u}{b}. You lose 233 life. New game?

Oh, the pythagorean version is a great idea. It's more natural than the "even/odd" thing. Unfortunately, it only really hits 3/4 4/3 3/5 5/3 4/5 or 5/4 out of common sizes (plus those times two or three), I wonder if there's anything similar that would hit (or exclude) an appropriately varied set.

Although now I want to make a silver bordered version.

­{x}{b} Instant.
Choose target creature with PX+TX being an X'th power.
If X is >=1, gain PX+TX life
If X >=2, destroy that creature.
If X >= 3, win the game.

­:)

Um, that reduces to "{3}{b}: If there's a 1/1, win the game." Also, the way I worded Travel the Hypotenuse, only 3/4 and 4/3 work; 5 only works paired with 12.

Don't forget that any number trivially works when paired with 0.

You're right, a 0/X is the problem, even if a 1/1 isn't. Never mind.

Wait. Why did you cast Firebreathing on my Shivan Dragon?

Hm. Maybe it should be "destroy target creature if its power and toughness are coprime"? :)

Sadface. Numerological Persecution was bumped because Doomseek seems like a more exciting card, in my mind. I get the impression that this is one of those designs that keeps getting submitted and keeps getting rejected over something that helps the set work better.

Nearly realised by Gilt-Leaf Winnower ! :)

Indeed!

And wizards have kept the ball rolling with Void Winnower (see http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/command-tower/void-where-prohibited-2015-09-10 ) bringing the reminder text "zero is even" back to magic :)

The best line I've heard about Void Winnower?

Your opponent literally can't even.

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