Originally Posted by
Epiren
Never really paid attention to numbers myself *3*
But I think you're forgetting... their classification, for lack of a better term. Ea is Anti-World, Excalibur is Anti-fortress, V.S is Anti-Army and I can't find info on B.M. at this time. It's self-explanatory, but these Noble Phantasms were meant to defeat/destroy their target in one strike (iirc) - can you really say that a weapon which can destroy a castle/fortress in one strike wouldn't make him a good military asset? Anyway from the numbers, I'm assuming that the maximum limit was simply put at 1,000.
Also, use punctuations please. It's very annoying to read a runoff sentence.