gooshie:
Q. "What if I forget the command syntax?"
A. The syntax is displayed with an example if you type "/magic" with no parameters.
Q. "Why set the delay in milliseconds instead of seconds?"
A. It is often only necessary to delay a flood of text by 100 to 250 milliseconds to keep the server from booting you off. That's 1/10th to 1/4th of a second, thus the finer grain delay.
Q. Can the text modifiers be used in other scripts or popups?
A. Yes. They can be used independently of /magic. /magic just helps you quickly combine and play with them without opening the script editor. The text modifiers themselves follow "standard coding practices".

I'm not in disagreement that you can approach this several different ways. What /magic was mainly designed to do is combine multiple identifiers quickly in a channel without all the layout and closing brackets while-loop initiation and error messages because your text string contains a comma. As you can see, 85% of my code is strictly parsing user input; while the guts are a simple little WHILE loop with optional /timer. :)