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How is something an artifact, a creature or a land outside the battlefield?

You are right, that this part of the sentence is redundant. However it increases clarity.

Virtually everyone I play with would be claiming it triggers from Unearth, Scavenge, Dredge... and now especially Emblam. Leading to yet another phone lookup, every other weekend. Rofl =S

Both Cavern of Souls and Snapcaster are insane. Its part of why they are so expensive to begin with.

Cavern has virtually no drawbacks; 1 mana of any color for creature type, creature can't be countered. Its a land, so it can't be countered, and its harder to spot remove than creatures & enchantments. It inherently has no casting cost. Its never useless, as it can be used for (1)

Snapcaster recurses at instant speed, puts a 2/1 onto the table at instant speed, can be abused with dozens of bounce effects, hypothetically allows you to run 8 copies of any spell in the deck, or diversify yourself and run less copies of everything else. You're rarely sad to top deck it. In the worst of times, he's got you. If he can't snap the answer, he can often snap a brainstorm or ponder that gets you an answer.

They are exactly what you'd expect from a mythic rare; not like Quicksilver Gargantuan. >_>

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"Legalized discrimination against Muslim" way to spin that one. I know some people don't like to admit it but there is a group of people in this world who have declared war on our culture. What harm can come from temporarily freezing immigration until we have a better system of seeing who is and isn't coming in our country? The presidents job is to protect the rights and well being of the AMERICAN people and if suspending an aliens entry is key to doing so, then he has every right to. As far as being unconstitutional, the Supreme Court will decide that. Unfortunately there are laws stating that he can and laws stating that he can't.

Take a step back. Look at the CDC's website for information regarding annual death tolls in America. Over 2.6 million people died in America last year alone. If we lost 100 people to terrorist attacks, its a drop in the bucket.

You'd save more lives focusing on gun violence (~33K) drunk driving (~10K) or heroin (~30K) This implies the travel ban is pretty much pointless. Its laughable, and actions like this makes people hate America more.

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If trends towards disenfranchisement continue under the current guise of "ID Laws", it'd probably be her first priority to start shuttling people to the DMV and ready to help contribute to the pound of flesh and xanax that could be added to the poll taxes process. In fact, she may want to get started now in case the process does start getting more strenuous in the future.

I live in Ohio. Voting requires a form of identification (commonly drivers license or state ID, though utility bill and other things are accepted) Its never taken me more than 15 minutes to vote. Every adult should have BC, SS and valid ID. Figure out the system. Its damn hard to do anything at the BMV without these. At least two of them are no charge. God forbid you get a suspension for not having it - asking friends to drive you out of county to an office that can reinstate it is a huge hassle and can come with a lot of fines. Don't cry about the $25 or having to wait at the SS office with old people who occupy the sole teller for 3 hours. We all have to do it. Figure out the system. And while I'm on the soap box - pay the credit card balance off every month, keep at least 2 months pay in a savings account, don't buy ***** you can't afford, cigarettes (and weed) are bad for your lungs and a huge waste of money.

Amen.

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Obviously, half or more of their people felt this way. You have to respect that.

Why? You just said "every logical view suggests its a bad move." If every logical view suggests it's a bad move, then why should anyone respect it?

Topic of regrets aside for a moment

Because its a basic fundamental of democracy. The majority if people in that region want this for themselves. So while you or I may believe that's a stupid decision, its their decision. What's actually driving it doesn't matter. And all too often, despite the majority of people in a region choosing something for themselves, some entity steps in and tells them what's good for them and how its going to be. Half the time we don't even get to vote on the crap, its just passed and put in place. Or its simply done.

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Then on the topic of regret, I bet a lot of that is because the rest of the world and their own government is painting the situation like the sky is falling. But many Britts (and Scots) on my LINE are pretty happy about it overall. Many believe the EU acts like a dictatorship.

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Its one thing to claim to act in favor of a group in private and then go on TV and claim a reporter is on her period or that “It’s certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on ‘The Apprentice’ were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal.” or that “Like you wouldn’t have your job if you weren’t beautiful.” or that Hillary would be a poor president because her husband was once unfaithful. You can say what you want about Clinton but she is not sexist and Trump is very clearly sexist.

Is any of that really sexist? Or is it just blunt honesty?

We've had plenty of terrible but HOT secretaries here at the office who were clearly hired for their looks.
Our local bar ONLY hires hot bartenders. All five of them are hot. Two of them are decent bartenders.
(PS I might mention the LEGS are in back in season)
Supermodels are supermodels because they are hot
Hot chicks pose for car calendars because they are hot.

Time warner and AT&T hire sales people who are hot. They come to my door. They have big big cleavage. My lady yells at me to "send that cable lady away" (lol) All across the country, hot chicks are hired because they are hot. That's just how it is. GOD FORBID someone actually say it - that's sexist.

And on the last bit - lots of people I've talked to think that Clinton is a weak character because she didn't leave Bill. It wasn't just an affair among common folk and two people trying to work things out. Its the POTUS and the first lady for gods sake, and it was EVERYWHERE. It STILL IS. Nothing sexist for sharing that belief

Not listed here, but calling someone a fat pig isn't sexist either.

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I tend to bait the removal out with something less important, then play my combo components or key creature.

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I do agree with posters below; I would almost always T1 a Serra's Ascendant in either scenario. I myself wouldn't run Serra Ascendant outside of 2HG though.

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I don't feel you should be able to kill 2, 5 or even 10 people and expect to live out life in prison. Especially in Jeffery Dahlmer's case, having eaten parts of those people as well. His mom might be sad, but that doesn't change anything. Yes I AM happy he got what was coming to him. Too bad he wasn't held captive, killed and then eaten too.

There is no rehabilitation for those people. You cannot fix it.

What punishment is or should be, is every mans opinion. To me, its very much vengeance for all the victims. Sitting in prison for life isn't an equal trade for the crimes committed. Even lethal injection is too nice for some of these people.

The death penalty also serves as a strong deterrent in general. Bring back the chair.

I think political correctness is dumb and bad. It conditions people to think a certain way instead of in free-form, and it's censorship - phasing words out of a language for the purpose of not allowing people to correlate a particular idea is totalitarianism and I don't agree with it in the slightest. Thought police, much?

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Easter is a fine opportunity for some good old admin abuse.

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If people are struggling to find stuff, I recommend checking Barnes and Noble, too. I got Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain there.

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As per the title, I want to know why so many people seem against the mythic rarity. It's a common theme on this site and it seems that someone mentions it in nearly every thread.

So, what's up with it?

Well, most people raving against it were around when Shards block dropped them. WotC basically announced they were adding it, a lot of people got uneasy, but the article stated it was basically for epic, bomby spells, legends, and planeswalkers, not utility stuff like lands. Then in Zendikar, they gave us enemy fetches, which paired with the Landfall keyword, and promptly printed Lotus Cobra. Any deck that wanted him wanted 4, hence utility. A lot of people shouted 'I knew it!' the second they saw it, because it felt like a cash grab. Sure enough, a 2-drop became a $20 card, and made a lot of people upset. Then we saw Vengevine, which clearly had nothing mythic about him. Baneslayer Angel, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, and so on. A narrow group of painfully broken, overpowered tournament-level cards started becoming the norm.

So, in short, here's the problem: You buy a box, it has 3/15 mythics. Only 1 is a tourney staple. To get a set of them, a dealer has to crack more than 5 boxes just for your playset. So now he has 8 of every rare, so the price on them shoots low, even for staples (think Detention Sphere, now at a whopping $3). Comparatively, the 15 mythics in the set now range from $2 for a crappy one, to $25-60 for the most desired ones. Basically, every good mythic that people want multiples of makes the value of every other card in the set go down. Guys on a budget can't afford the mythics and get upset, guys savvy enough to trade up to them on every trade ask everyone else why they're complaining so much, and the numbers appear to show that the cost of tourney decks is rising as a result.

There ya go. Tried to make that as matter-of-fact as I could without starting an inevitable flame war this question will bring.

While it's not exactly what you're looking for in regards to the card case, may I recommend the Monster 2-pocket mini binder? It won't provide as much protection as something rigid that snaps closed, but if you're looking for something that's a small, convenient, portable size, and you only need to carry with you a few cards instead of lugging around your whole collection, they can't be beat. I've had two of them for about a year and a half, and they've never let me down, no cards were ever damaged.

It's a 2-pocket binder, capable of holding 64 cards. Even when completely full it's only about 3/4 of an inch thick.

Two pocket binder review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CwqibA_hrk

$10 here, but can be found cheaper elsewhere if you look around the web. http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Binder-Holofoil-Anti-theft-Gathering/dp/B0043BNUOK/ref=pd_sim_t_3

It's designed so cards can't slide out (watch the video). The cards in the video are in there pretty snug, but that's because they're sleeved (also she's trying to remove them one-handed. Cards are snug, but do come out fairly easily. I do recommend loosening up each pocket first by inserting something worthless in first like a basic land, then removing the land before putting in the card you really intend on putting in. While the video demonstrates Yu-Gi-Oh cards, the binders only come in one size, and they fit Magic cards.

The sleeves you are looking for are KMC Perfect Fit Sleeves.

Here's a link: http://store.tcgplayer.com/supplies/card-sleeves/kmc-perfect-fit-sleeves-(100-ct)

Modern (by me!)
Legacy

EDIT: for Modern collection purposes, this list by Tom is better.

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When my great grandpa, aged 18, stormed Normandy beach because the letter in the mail told him he had to, he didn't complain that the Germans played too much removal.

Wow, MTG Godwin. It just happened.

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