Not Ethersworn Canonist over Rule of Law? It would seem that in this enviroment, the 'nonartifact' drawback to Canonist is offset by the fact that it kills 1/1s, beats for 2 and costs 1 less.
I'd say either the Bands with Other lands or the Dwarven Song cycle. The Laces actually had a reasonable (although not by any means good, of course) effect in stopping Blasts.
Actually, I think the Wave > Regress argument might be valid. There is no card in Magic (to my knowledge) that allows you to steal a card and then, for example, discard it as though it was in your hand (cycling). If this is indeed true, then since Wave's cycling ability cannot be stolen, it is better.
Ranger of Lame? More like Ranger of Insane. He's not a toolbox, and more an insane card advantage engine... get two Figures; two Kird Apes/Wild Nacatls; the guy's probably one of the best topdecks White Weenie could have- just like Lark, he's a one-man threat.
Hey, this was fun... for my opponent. It's a PWND game for me, though. Game two, I've lost the first- he's playing an aggressive Naya deck that can still ramp into Rakeclaws, and I'm playing a slow five-colour Esper deck with a lot of fixing/Obelisks into Vein Drinker and other bombs. I'm on the play
Me: Arcane Sanctum, go
Him: Forest, Wild Nacatl
Me: Grixis Panorama, crack for Mountain
Him: Plains, Wild Nacatl, beat for two (18)
Me: Basic land, Obelisk
Him: Wild Nacatl, beat for four (14)
Me: Esper Battlemage, land
Him: Beat for six (I don't block, 8)
Me: Gift of the Gargantuan into land and creature, play land pass turn holding Agony Warp with B up for Battlemage... end of turn he Naturalises my Battlemage.
Him: Attacks with three Nacatls. I Warp, killing one and shrinking the other... he responds with Sigil Blessing. I get crushed into the ground.
All the answers for all my threats... and three Nacatls... killed off two lands
Crazy Mini is wrong here. It's true that he can load on as many pumps as he likes, but for any of them to resolve, priority has to be passed to you- so you can Unmake at any time- since Rite is a Sorcery, he can only play it during his main phase when the stack is empty- you'll have ample chances to play Unmake before that.
If you go into a sealed with expectations as to which colour(s) you're going to play, you'll fall flat and most likely build a suboptimal deck. In Shards sealed 5c Green or Unearth advantage seemed the strongest- opening enough manafixing isn't hard- hell, someone splashed for Predator Dragon (and got there!)
He's saying that not every card has to be a Goyf/Jitte- Outrage Shaman does not need to hit players (which would not be nearly as good as people are saying, but let's run with it like it's the Second Coming) because not every card needs artificial power- this form is fine in Limited, and that's enough.
Echoing what others have said: Unless you buy multiple cases at wholesale price, inflate your prices above normal '80-90% of retail' eBay prices, and actually sell everything you plan to sell, you won't earn profit. E-Shops like R_E's make money through customer loyalty; his prices are closer to retail than eBay's are, but since he operates a quick and easy shop (and opens cases upon cases of product, ensuring he has everything he needs), he can make money through that. And I'm sure there are still sets which he loses money/breaks even on.
Summation: Don't do it; if you honestly do want to start an eBay business and are not just looking for a quick buck, there are ways to go about that- but huge investments would need to be made. If you're dead-set on buying cards, order sets from Starcity/eBay.
I'm firmly against a mass claim at this time in the game. I don't think we're at a point where mass claiming will do more than give the scums near-perfect information- sure, we might be able to trap a scum or two through claims if we're lucky, but with a no-flavour claim, it might be hard... if you have two claimed docs, what do you do? Either way you're likely going to waste a day- And then we get our power roles killed during the night.
Me: Arcane Sanctum, go
Him: Forest, Wild Nacatl
Me: Grixis Panorama, crack for Mountain
Him: Plains, Wild Nacatl, beat for two (18)
Me: Basic land, Obelisk
Him: Wild Nacatl, beat for four (14)
Me: Esper Battlemage, land
Him: Beat for six (I don't block, 8)
Me: Gift of the Gargantuan into land and creature, play land pass turn holding Agony Warp with B up for Battlemage... end of turn he Naturalises my Battlemage.
Him: Attacks with three Nacatls. I Warp, killing one and shrinking the other... he responds with Sigil Blessing. I get crushed into the ground.
All the answers for all my threats... and three Nacatls... killed off two lands
Foreseeing a 'nath.
EDIT: Nope, gets there
EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, the Searblades will die; you need an instant-speed way of killing them- Brion Stoutarm, Soul's Fire
Summation: Don't do it; if you honestly do want to start an eBay business and are not just looking for a quick buck, there are ways to go about that- but huge investments would need to be made. If you're dead-set on buying cards, order sets from Starcity/eBay.
If anything, acronym-claim?