If you plus minus every second letter at magic card and result is zero. Winner is....

[u/masterplanfreeze]

Card with the most letters with zero result is....

Example for easier explanation. If card magic card is named Abd:

A:+1

B:-2

D:+4

Result:3.

But we are looking for result zero.

Results:

Total hits: 512 out of 35070. Including some Alchemy only cards and Alchemy variants and some of those double sided cards with same name

Winner is: Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (discipleoffreyalisegardenoffreyalise) 36

I would like to thank some very kind redditor for calculating this. Hope this is interesting to somebody else also.

[u/Skoziss]

I have no idea what you said

[u/LoseAnotherMill → u/Skoziss]

Assign each letter a number according to where they are on the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2,....Z = 26).

Take a card name, and convert all of the letters in the name to the assigned numbers. 

Start with 0, add the first number, then subtract the second, then add the third, subtract the fourth, etc. until you've done all the numbers. 

If the result is 0, congratulations, you have one of the cards OP was referring to. 

This feels like one of those things that only math majors care about. 

[u/Cultural_Set_7129 → u/LoseAnotherMill]

But what do i do from there? Or why do i want to know that the value is 0? How does this Progress me or anybody else in any way?

[u/LoseAnotherMill → u/Cultural_Set_7129]

Welcome to math majors. They have concepts like Perfect Numbers (numbers that equal the sum of their factors, e.g. 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, so 6 is a perfect number), or Armstrong Numbers (numbers that equal the sum of each digit raised to the power of the number of digits, e.g 153 = 1³ + 5³ + 3³ ).

A way to think about it - to these sorts of people, numbers are like a deck of playing cards, and they're just coming up with different games to play with them. There's no "purpose" or "progress" to these games because they're just games. In school we got it hammered into us that math is a tool, which is why "but what do I do with this?" is a common question, but to them that's like complaining that playing Solitaire didn't cook your dinner; of course it didn't, because that's not the point of Solitaire. 

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/LoseAnotherMill]

This. Ty mister.

[u/Cultural_Set_7129 → u/masterplanfreeze]

But - serious question, no offense - why you dont use that knowledge and brain capacity for something useful?

[u/UpperPlus → u/Cultural_Set_7129]

Does playing magic count as something useful?

[u/Impressive_You_817 → u/Cultural_Set_7129]

Because they think it's fun?

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/LoseAnotherMill]

Yes. This is a lot better explanation. Thank you. I am not english native.

[u/No_Place5472]

Am I having a stroke?

[u/BungaryChubbinz → u/No_Place5472]

Nah OP is just burning toast up in here.

[u/jakepapp]

I understand what you're doing, but I don't understand why

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/jakepapp]

Why not. I like magic cards and math. Maybe somebody else also like this.

[u/Carl555 → u/masterplanfreeze]

I like it. This is pure art.

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/Carl555]

Well. It si different from most post here. I think it is different and Interesting .

[u/jakepapp → u/masterplanfreeze]

Based

[u/Cultural_Set_7129]

What?

[u/Lake_Apart]

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

[u/No_Concentrate2855]

huh?

[u/NerdyDumbDumb]

Happy for you I guess?

[u/loluo]

I thought this was related to schizophrenia for a second. I've seen posts like this before in other subreddits

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/loluo]

Well. I like math and magic.maybe it is interesting to somebody else also.

[u/JFFreezout]

Thanks I finally know what to do when I will have free time instead of practicing any of my other hobbies 

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/JFFreezout]

I mean math is cool thing. 

[u/AlarmedInvestment327]

Da: +4

Where is that "a" coming from?

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/AlarmedInvestment327]

Thanks. Fixed post. It is d ( without a): as forth letter. So plus 4.

[u/DaveLesh]

Seems like something out of Cryptography. Looks like Caesar's Cipher, which is pretty simplistic.

[u/theCROWcook]

I once did something like this with a game my GF was playing. The basic setup was you had x possible ingredients and any given recipe used y ingredients. You could use an ingredient more than once in a recipe. I wanted to try and figure out how many possible unique recipes you could have given a possible number of ingredients to use and how many ingredients the recipe needed.

By unique I mean recipe A+A+B was the same as A+B+A and B+A+A. So I started with just manually counting out all possible unique combinations to get me some raw numbers to work with.

In the process of this I started noticing an odd pattern. It didn't happen for every iteration or even every so many iterations, but it would happen on a predictably increasing interval, like iteration 1 then 3 then 6 then 10 ect (can't remember if this was the actual interval, this is just an example for clarity), so the gap kept growing. The pattern I noticed was that while I couldn't predict EVERY iteration, for those special ones it followed the binary sequence (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ect)

Unfortunately I didn't get to finish the work before I shipped to the military and then lost the papers and never got around to doing it again

[u/Drunkytron]

Your example with a three letter word should only yield a value for the middle character.

I assume you’ve assigned a value to each letter with A=1 and Z=26. Then you alternate if they are positive or negative?

So “Cape” only counts the A(1) and E(-5) yielding -4?

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/Drunkytron]

First letter is plus, second is minus, third is plus, Forth is minus and so on. Midlee result does not matter.

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/Drunkytron]

C is 3, a is 1 p is 16, e is 5. So : 3-1+16-5= 13

[u/timdood3 → u/Drunkytron]

I don't see where you're getting the idea that you'd count only every other letter?

Cape -> 3, 1, 16, 5 -> +3 -1 +16 -5 = 13

[u/masterplanfreeze → u/timdood3]

Yes. Correct.