"Moot" is used in "entmoot" in the old sense of "a meeting", however "moot" has come to acquire connotations of "pointless", possibly (?) by confusion with "mute", hence this being a pun!
I'm also interested in the drawback. Green's dabbled with "big creature you need to activate somehow". This is probably usually worse than paying full price for a 5/5, or having an echo creature or a "sac unless you pay G" creature. But sometimes it's better, if you have cards that care about maximum power, or you want to threaten an attack or block but then play something else.
PS. I checked OED. I was sure the "mute" etymology was mentioned, but now I don't see it, so I don't know. (Moot/mute is definitely a common confusion now, but I don't know if it features in the derivation of the "pointless" sense of "moot".)
Etymonline claims it's from the sense of "hypothetical law discussion". They're usually fairly good at filtering out "folk etymology", from what I hear.
I find etymonline pretty good, but I'm not sure if they're better than the OED. But either way, I can't find anything to back up the influence of "mute".
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"Moot" is used in "entmoot" in the old sense of "a meeting", however "moot" has come to acquire connotations of "pointless", possibly (?) by confusion with "mute", hence this being a pun!
I'm also interested in the drawback. Green's dabbled with "big creature you need to activate somehow". This is probably usually worse than paying full price for a 5/5, or having an echo creature or a "sac unless you pay G" creature. But sometimes it's better, if you have cards that care about maximum power, or you want to threaten an attack or block but then play something else.
PS. I checked OED. I was sure the "mute" etymology was mentioned, but now I don't see it, so I don't know. (Moot/mute is definitely a common confusion now, but I don't know if it features in the derivation of the "pointless" sense of "moot".)
Etymonline claims it's from the sense of "hypothetical law discussion". They're usually fairly good at filtering out "folk etymology", from what I hear.
I find etymonline pretty good, but I'm not sure if they're better than the OED. But either way, I can't find anything to back up the influence of "mute".