Would his unconscious feelings of inadequacy be overcome by his Herostratic act (considered as expiation through punishment)?

This is fine, of course, but somewhat vague, illusory and politicianese.

That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.

If you are using a sufficently uncertain (I'm not going to say random)method of shuffling your deck, then the mana weave should make no differance to the final state of the deck before game play.