I worked on Meandeck Doomsday with JP Meyer, and created the Beacon kill on my own. Menendian left me out of the article and I've had a bug up my ass about it ever since.

TODAY IS THE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF TMD GETTING REGISTERED! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

TMD's first post. (June 18, 2002) -from a milestone thread I found while looking around my old posts.

TheManaDrain.com was registered on 10 Jun 2002 19:45:00. I'm not sure if the IRC channel predates or postdates that, but we have to be coming up on the 10 year anniversary soon.

All I remember is that Cividel invited me to #themanadrain IRC the first day it existed.

NECROED! Alexandria compilation by the jeekwife

Debrand it, remove anything in the program that links it back to you, and release it on Freenet.

How would this interact with Astral Slide and Backslide?

I've got this mental image of a dwarf with a crossbow being launched from a catapult, just to get high enough to fire the bolt, then grab onto the target and pull them to the ground.

I've been playing this on and off for the past few months, it's been working decently, but I'm about to lose quite a bit of it to rotation.

// jeek's blue/black aggro.. BEFORE

// Mana
4 River of Tears
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Watery Grave
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Swamp
4 Island

// Counter
4 Remand
4 Rune Snag
SB: 4 Flashfreeze
SB: 4 Trickbind

// Removal
4 Sudden Death
4 Last Gasp
4 Repeal
SB: 4 Smallpox
SB: 3 Big Game Hunter

// Draw
4 Shadowmage Infiltrator
4 Looter il-Kor
2 Dimir Cutpurse

// The Beats
4 Tombstalker
4 Withered Wretch

As far as I can tell, I'm losing Last Gasp, Remand, Watery Grave, Dimir Cutpurse, and Repeal.
To replace Last Gasp, I'm moving Smallpox to the maindeck, Underground River replaces Watery Grave. Wipe Away replaces Repeal, and I'm thinking about trying Nihilith in the Cutpurse slot along with removing an Island and a Swamp to complete the set of Nihiliths.
The deck basically runs all answers and the creatures act as reusable draw to find the redundant cards.
I've also been contemplating Nameless Inversion as the Last Gasp replacement, but the Smallpox/Nihilith interaction seems strong.

Edit: Oh right, and Delay to replace Remand.

What if this gets Spelljacked (and Misdirected)?

I'm not a fan of this mechanic, either, but a possible fix is letting the opponent choose which lands they tap to generate the mana.

Might want to have it as "leaves play" instead of being put back into a graveyard, just to stop combo silliness.

I haven't bent the rules enough lately. :/

Entropic Master
Creature - Wizard
, Tap: Target spell gains "Remove this card from the game instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.".
1/1

Entropic Master
Creature - Wizard
, Tap: Target spell gains "Remove this card from the game instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.".
1/1

Let me know what you think about the update.

I like that idea, updating the original.

Martyr's Rallying Cry
Instant
As an additional cost to play ~this~, sacrifice a creature.
Creatures you control gain Bushido X, where X was the power of the sacrificed creature.

Martyr's Cry
Instant
As an additional cost to play ~this~, sacrifice a creature.
Choose One - All blocked creatures get +X/+X until the end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power; or All blocking creatures get +X/+X until the end of turn where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
For Korlis!

The name sucks, but I think the spell has potential.

Unstable Talisman
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Creature
Return Unstable Talisman to its owner's hand: Remove enchanted creature from the game, then return it to play under its owner's control.

Unstable Talisman
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Creature
Return Unstable Talisman to its owner's hand: Remove enchanted creature from the game, then return it to play under its owner's control.

Last-Minute Studying
Instant
Play Last-Minute Studying only during your End Phase.
Draw three cards.

Last-Minute Studying
Instant
Play Last-Minute Studying only during your End Phase.
Draw three cards.

Tripshock
Instant
Tripshock deals 3 damage to target creature with toughness 4 or more.

Tripshock
Instant
Tripshock deals 3 damage to target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

*sings the chorus to mmmbop*

"Awwww... good doggie"

Invalidate {W/U} {W/U}
Instant
Counter target spell that was not played from its controller's hand.

Invalidate {W/U}
Instant
Counter target spell that was not played from its controller's hand.
If was spent to play Invalidate, draw a card.

I'm a bit out of it at the moment, so my answer might not be exactly correct.
Lee Sharpe is a Level 3 judge that is also involved in fixing up rules issues and templating issues in upcoming Magic sets. You'll see him mentioned in the FAQs for
the last few sets. His reasoning was "This is something we don't do"

Sliver Aberration
Creature - Sliver Mutant
As ~this~ comes into play, you may search your deck for up to three different sliver cards and remove them from the game. Then shuffle your library.
As long as any creature cards are removed in this way, this has the abilities of those cards.
1/1

Sliver Aberration
Creature - Sliver Mutant
As ~this~ comes into play, you may search your deck for up to three different sliver cards and remove them from the game. Then shuffle your library.
As long as any creature cards are removed in this way, this has the abilities of those cards.
1/1

I was told by Lee Sharpe that I can't use "printed".

The problem is that Sliver Licid gains flanking, so then it gives a second instance of flanking to all other slivers.

Original Text:
Sliver Licid
Creature -- Sliver Licid
All Slivers gain "T: Sliver Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay 0 to end this effect.
Enchanted creature is a Sliver. All other Slivers gain the abilities of enchanted creature."
2/2

Current Text:
Sliver Licid
Creature -- Sliver Licid
All Sliver creatures gain "T: This creature loses this ability and becomes a Sliver Aura tribal enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target nonsliver creature. You may pay 0 to end this effect."
All Sliver permanents gain "Enchanted creature is a Sliver. Copy enchanted creature's text box onto all other Slivers."
2/2

BrassMan: enchanted sliver guy is a sliver
BrassMan: which means flanking sliver gives him flanking
BrassMan: but since he has flanking do other slivers get it twice?
The answer currently is "Yes". How do we fix this?
----
jeek: Enchanted creature is a Sliver. Copy enchanted creature's text box onto all other Slivers.
jeek: zomg I think I have it!
LeeSharpe: That would probably wouldn't be a copy effect, it would probably be keyworded
LeeSharpe: but that seems reasonable
LeeSharpe: "Splice onto [quality]" on a permanent means "[quality] permanents have this permanent's rules text, except for any Splice abilitie, in addition to their own."
LeeSharpe: or similar
LeeSharpe: I would still keyword it, for the complication factor
LeeSharpe: People will understand the keyword and reminder text, they won't understand the rules as written on the card
LeeSharpe: much like Mindslaver, etc

Thanks to LeeSharpe, BrassMan, and EliShffrn for helping me get the rules issues out of the way.

Interesting that you mention that card, which has a blue flashback. I see it as a cross between Momentary Blink and Pongify.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=73228

Aven Mindcensor
2W
Creature - Bird Wizard
Flash
Flying
If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.
2/1

It looks as though I've been partially vindicated with what people are accepting as a reliable spoiler for Future Sight. Is making it symmetrical worth the extra power of my version?

Adding "nontoken"