I like it, but my god, if a normal wizard can give me Analysis Paralysis, this would have me like a deer frozen in the headlights in a vat of liquid helium. Depending on how you fluff this, this feels both very primal, the building blocks of magic, and very technical and scientific, it's basically a programming language, like in 'The Dragon and the George'.
It probably can be broken fairly easily, but you know what? Broken is an OOC term. In-universe, the term is 'Effective'.