When did legal jargon become accepted into the Magical lexicon?

Its not a Green Drain. Its a Super Rust! 

If you package it that way, it will get a much better response.

This is a very interesting ability with a small bluffing element built into it. With 3 B open for the Sinling owner, is it worth it to the spell caster to pay the 2 life with the knowledge that the ability to activate it several more times? Lots of opportunity to outplay with this card...

Well actually--the more gold cards you run, the better Dream Halls gets.

So are you advocating putting more Conflux in the deck then? If that answer is yes, then I will gladly discuss the much greater utility of Glittering Wish over Conflux. If that answer is no, then move on and quit trolling the thread.

All I am proposing is that there is deck design space that allows for including Conflux without including it in the maindeck. That point was not mentioned earlier in discussion.

Another possible design angle--is it possible to fit Dream Halls into a Rector shell?

Glittering Wish is also an option.

The wish option has to be mountains better than running Conflux in the deck.

Maybe use Conflux as a wish target? That way it gets it out of your deck to get rid of dead cards until you need them.

Whats stopping you from playing 80 cards now?

That is hardcore.

I think we have firmly established that we each understand how the probabilities work. I give you passing marks into the 22nd grade.

I'm not sure what positive benefits you are referencing here because you can not "train" your deck to operate in "deterministic" mode through repetition. It may very well be that all your test games with the deck present you with a perfect 40% chance of drawing a least 1 Force or Will in your opening 7, but all your tournament games have the 4 Force of Will always on the bottom of your deck. In spite of the number of games you have played with the deck, both deck state functions* are perfectly--and probabilistically--valid.

*This is a construct I have put together as a result of too many graduate level engineering classes to try to mathematically quantify the Magic deck. I'd be glad to talk about it some more if there is interest.

The impact of variation with a Magic deck is very different from a standard deck(s) in Blackjack due to the different nature of the games.

First, Blackjack games are much quicker than Magic. This means that a good Blackjack player can expect results that are much closer to the deterministic probabilities. Of course there is still variation with the Blackjack deck, but the increased number of hands reduces the variation of the long term play probabilities as compared to Magic games.

Second, with Blackjack the expectation of good play results in hands not played. Magic doesn't hand an analogue to this. So if a good player is dealt 16's all evening, you can cut your losses as a night of bad beats and still wear the "good player" title. With Magic, every game you play is important towards advancing in the tournament. So if you are dealt the same "16's" all evening, you can talking about it with the rest of the 0-X's that are out of the tournament.

How did you calculate your probabilities without the Hyper Geometric Distribution?

1. Your game results will only approach these probabilities over a VERY large number of games.
2. On the short term (in "game to game" time), the stochastic deck variations will drive your results.

Yep.

Any love for Mana Vortex?

I would love to see Chains of Mephistopheles get some more action.

In retrospect, 2007 had some really good Westerns in it. I think No Country for Old Men really hit my western nerve. Also I thoroughly enjoyed The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Great epic movie. After it, Im almost convinced the Brad Pitt can act. Almost.

I also REALLY want to see There Will Be Blood, but it doesnt look to be making wide release until sometime in early 2008 (I hope!). Daniel Day Lewis + Western is the recipe for success to me. Its getting good reviews, so hopefully it will live up to the hype.

+1
Amazing movie.

This line of play is used until you eat a Daze that you could have otherwise avoided.

And that line of play does not avoid Stifle at all.

The fetchland search is still on the stack when you cast Brainstorm. That means they can still Stifle it once you pass priority.

That Gush list with Fastbond+Bazaar looks interesting... Ive never really thought about a storm deck run with Bazaar in it before.

The Doors -- Been Down So Long

Theres something about this song that has always evoked devil/hell kind of thoughts even though Im sure lyrically its not about either.

If you have trouble with the movie making sense, then you should really have a problem with the cartoon:

where Megatron is a GUN?
or when Optimus Prime looses an arm, then later has it, only to later loose it all in one episode?

Oh the huge manatee!

I suppose you could target the with Repeal with x=0. But I think that a prudent opponent would always reveal the creature so that the target is no longer valid and have Repeal fizzle---err countered upon resolution.

My movie guilty pleasures:
Purple Rain
The Beastmaster

I had a fun deck with it that was based on instants+Toshiro+Forbidden Orchard+Night of Souls Betrayal. When it worked, it was great. When it didnt, you got a quick reminder about playing flashy things over stable ones.

Mines so big I can hardly walk.

Another NeoCube Idea
Artifact 1
Whenever the number of colors are counted for a spell or ability, add 1 to that value.

It still feels rough though.

Thats not the role of business cards stateside. Business cards are primarily tools to 1. quickly find a POC for a given company. or 2. quickly find a POC for a given company division or SBU. Neither of these options have anything to do with advertising your education level or yourself for that matter.

quotes fixed. - Bram

I have an MBA and I wouldnt think to put it on a business card.

ChemEng MBA, PE

or is it PE, MBA?

hrmm...

I dont think that Ive seen a Masters Degree listed on a business card before. Usually its PhD or certifications similar (PE, CPA, et al)

+1

Just be careful. If you are caught intentionally bypassing those filters, thats a clear case for corrective actions. IT types dont like it when the people they support "out-geek" them.