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8-person drafts are so hard to run properly, no matter what platform you're playing on. It's much easier to get a group of 4 together, and it's neater - everyone plays everyone else once.

Cards which make you skip your draw step in exchange for a very powerful effect, like Necropotence/Yawgmoth's Bargain/Dragon Appeasement.

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Young Pyromancer, Runechanter's Pike, Keening Emblem, Blistercoil Weird, Kiln Fiend, Gelectrode, Nivmagus Elemental, Nivix Cyclops

Easier than I thought, apparently :P

In the second post here there's a list of popular <$1 Cube cards.

This is far, far too easy: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=519840

Something being playable in EDH is a mark against it in my book.

My Welsh friend won a PTQ for Montreal, went like 1-5, and hasn't acquired any more Pro Points. He's now the Welsh captain for the WMC by default, because nobody else in Wales has any points at all.

I think the idea of a captain picking their teammates is the worst suggestion in the article, tbh. You end up with the captain picking their teammates, which is bad enough, or - in small countries - their best friends whom nobody else has heard of, which is even worse.

Eh, I really like Sire as is.

It looks interesting. WoG seems a bit out of place?

The WNBA?

Currently looking at this for Standard: but I'll be looking intently at this after M14 comes out: and experimenting with this for Modern: CML needs to get his Martyr-loving statist ass in here so I can sing odes to Vizkopa Guildmage.

I'm pushing reanimator quite hard, and there are a ton of cards that work well with Mongrel (Squee, Land Tax, Squadron Hawk, Sunder, Loam, flashback/madness cards, draw-7s like Memory Jar/Wheel of Fortune/Timetwister/Time Spiral, Prime Speaker/Garruk, Ajani COP or cards that give...

If you're interested in subculture documentaries and Scrabble (or even if you aren't) I would heartily recommend Word Wars (or Word Freak, the book it's based on). It's worth keeping in mind that the $25k payout is for the Scrabble equivalent of the Pro Tour which has an overall prize pool of...

Betrothed of Fire?

Alright, I want to talk a bit about this. I think the best way to do it is to break this up into segments, so I'll start with a post about aggro. AGGRO Jason's articles and ideas were a useful guide here, contributing some of the main themes: - Steppe Lynx(/landfall in general): This...

Go to a currency exchange and swap dollars for pounds back and forth. You feel like you've bought something, you get to hold the Queen's image, and you haven't even spent any money!