Should you find yourself mana-screwed, you wont have the security of a hand full of resources to deploy once you find lands, and its a do-nothing top deck later in the game when you need action
Pillage Pillages flexibility allows red players to put this effect in their sideboard, having a flexible slot against artifacts or lands
The hypergeometric distribution is a discrete probability distribution that describes the likelihood of drawing a specific number of "successes" from a finite population, without replacement
As near as I can tell it was some combination of the following causes: First, there are fewer high-profile Legacy events these days and Legacy has become more of a niche format
CardMill is the brainchild of Jonathan Domanus, a software engineer and Magic: The Gathering player who got tired of wrestling with his own collection
The synergy here is pretty straightforward: When milling other players, you risk enabling all their reanimation and graveyard shenanigans Honor the Fallen takes care of keeping graveyards clean while giving you life, which in turn triggers more mill from Hope