As a note, I do think that intent and energy (as in personal energy/presence: Ba) count for something in terms of magic for YuGiOh, but for techno-sorcery, I can’t see them working alone. Kaiba doesn’t make all duel disks himself, I needed something concrete for the magic or even his intent to stick to. Hence my choice to also include things like glyphs and incantations (albeit hidden in the circuitry and code) which are longstanding elements of magic
I do however partly dislike the idea of a magical language though. I mean what’s so special about that one? Whenever I daydream and picture myself working at techno-sorcerery I always clarify it as the Ancient Egyptian school. That there could be other systems of magic out there, other glyphs, incantations, even completely different ways of doing things. It's just that my (daydream me’s) current reference point is some tech that contains some inexplicable pieces drawing on Ancient Egyptian tradition since that is where he learned magic. (Kaiba Corp Department of Divination speaking, where we try to divine what the fuck our boss just did)
