I've got a few dozen extra OWNs, let's find out.

I'm going to look at this solely from the "answers" standpoint.

Tinker can be answered by any counterspell, as can Will.

Tinker, in it's most common target, can also be answered with Welder, STP, Echoing Truth, etc.

Will, requires more than one answer card should it be resolved. Even small Wills are disgusting in the CA and tempo they generate, Tinker, loses CA, but arguably provides better tempo.

Just looking at what the best responses are to each of these cards, Will is more difficult to deal with, though easier to play around. I would argue, that this "bomb" factor pushes Will over Tinker in the broken category, as well as general power level.

Lotus-Rit-Will.

Lotus-sac a mox-Tinker.

Now, you have a big threat, but the Will turn is just going to be huge, as you have an additional 7 mana to do as you will with. Tinker is restrictive in its targets, admittedly, those targets are very good, but the very nature of Will is that it allows you to not only play threats, answers, and broken mana acceleration, but to play those things in one turn. Tinker fails to do this.

And setting up some sort of Chant lock with a large number of draw sevens seems decent, but not nearly worth the randomness factor as long as it's restricted.

Assume I copy and pasted Smennen's list. 

1)Black Lotus
2)Mox Sapphire
3)Mox Jet
4)Yawgmoth's Will
5)Force of Will
6)Mox Ruby
7)Polluted Delta
8)Tinker
9)Sol Ring
10)Undecided (Tendrils, Brainstorm, Underground Sea, Volcanic Island, the other two moxen, or Tinker could easily fill this slot)

Each of these cards has a home in a great number of decks, and almost all of these decks could get by with 3/5 moxen. It's not going to be optimal, but a staples list isn't looking at optimal deck configurations, it's looking at what cards are the most necessary to play the widest range of decks in any given format.

I licked the first Mana Drain I ever owned.



Right before I sold it.

3-2, with damn good tie-breakers pushing me into the edge of prize support today.

I was carried solely on the back of Shape of the Wiitigo, 8 fliers, and more bluffing than any player should ever be put through.

There's an option on Appr for Chaos dicerolls, if you get desperate, or want other options, just hit ctrl+f a few hundred times and take down the ones you find as interesting, and then asign them to random numbers on a chart.

My group usually played with a d100 just to really make each new game truly new.

As a note, you can attack with the creature that is enchanted, and still tap the enchantment for the fusilade post combat.

Before every tournament, I always listen to -Human and No Leaf Clover

Ah, I was going off the there is an additional main phase text, not the go back to your second main phase. (which would probably be worded as after combat main phase.)

Not unfairly so, you're still not the active player.

Just to make it a bit more playable, you might take out the "only on your own turn" clause as Drain hate.

They're easier to pile shuffle. Just depends on what your head judge's opinion is on sufficiently randomized.

Guilty little pleasure, "Burn" NIN, Natural Born Killers SOundtrack.

I've got a large binder filled with rares and chase uncommons, sorted by color, then chronologically by set and then alphabetically. Everything else is strewn somewhere between my dorm, and one of the other two houses.

Amen. They did a Hallelujah cover at the show at the Fox that I loved, but just wasn't as good as War Pigs. I love the Dolls live, but I have to say, I can't listen to the albums over and over again like I can some bands

Metallica: Stone Cold Crazy
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Dresden Dolls: War Pigs.

Nah, something along the lines of

1UB

Discard a card: <this> gets +1/+1 until end of turn

Remove 2 cards in your graveyard from the game: <this> gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

1/2

 

Oiso, but Fujita was very tempting. Two PT Top 8's and a 9th? Easily makes it in any previous year on the APAC ticket, but this year two Japanese players put together incredible seasons, and a third won worlds, I'd like to see him get one of the others, but APAC goes to Oiso.

And I'm 3-0 on the votes. I'm getting too conformist.

This+Doomsday+(random burn)

As it's my birthday I rarely have to do anything. 

I love my life.

~this~   1UU
UU, Sacrifice a creature: Remove all spells and abilities from
the stack, replace them in any order. You may choose new
targets for those spells or abilities
2/2

I'd prefer the art done my Tedin or Beard

Aye, but Ravnica picked it up a bit. I was at least reasonably impressed by the Heirarch art, and Glare didn't turn out too shabby. I haven't had a shot at guildpact to decide about the art.

For some reason Oath came to mind right away, but I like the simplicity of the design.

Necro, Promise of Power (one of the best foils I've ever seen), and Rathi Dragon.

It's a 16 week season, with 4 weeks of playoffs, and a 4 week preseason which unfortunately just came to a close.

Arena football is just starting up though, and NFL Europe will get underway soon, but for the traditional NFL, you're going to have to wait until september or so.

I'm not aware of any websites that broadcast game replays, but video highlights are usually available from the major sporting sites, espn.com, nfl.com, and the home pages of whatever team you're most interested in (links available at nfl.com).

I wanted to vote Karsten, but MichaelJ just had so much going for him, plus I'd like to see how he'd do with 15 top pros. The problem was, Karsten put up results in both limited and standard, The "List" and 6-0 in the standard day at worlds is just an incredible example of combined talents that exhibit exactly what I think the resident genius should embody.

But in the end, Flores won out by a nose, largely because I'm voting Karsten for the Fan Favs if he's on the ballot. Antione or Julien has to be the European choice, though I have to admit, I'd like to see Gomersal go again.

Chuck Norris knows the last number of Pi.

Best two hours I ever spent.