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Modern is a non-rotating Constructed format that fills the niche between Standard and Legacy (previously filled by Extended). The Modern format consists of all Magic sets printed since the introduction of the modern card frame, starting with Eighth Edition and the Mirrodin block. Card sets do not rotate out of Modern. A list of legal sets and banned cards may be found here.
Note that cards exclusive to supplemental sets (Commander, Planechase, etc), are not legal for play.
Also note that lists have been restructured to fall in line with the Modern Nexus top decks page.
This page was last updated August 2016.
Tier One Strategies
Tier one strategies generally fall into a 4% or greater overall metagame share. It is extremely likely to see these decks throughout a tournament.
Abzan Company
- A successor to Birthing Pod decks, utilizing Collected Company and Chord of Calling to assemble an infinite combo.
- Combo 1: Melira, Sylvok Outcast or Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit, Kitchen Finks, and Viscera Seer to gain infinite life.
- Combo 2: Replace Kitchen Finks with Murderous Redcap for infinite damage.
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Eternal Witness, if gotten with Chord of Calling or Collected Company, can return the Chord/Company when the triggered ability goes on the stack.
- Picking up the deck, searching for a card, and cutting that card to the top is an acceptable shortcut for infinite Viscera Seer activations. Scry 1 does not allow a player to reorder the deck, however, just to cut to a specific card on top.
- Description: an aggro deck that pushes "artifacts matter" mechanics (affinity and metalcraft) and cards (ex. Cranial Plating and Master of Etherium) to the limit. The deck can deal huge amounts of damage in the first few turns via creature swarms, Cranial Plating-equipped creatures and/or high damage-low cost spells (ex. Galvanic Blast and Shrapnel Blast).
- Colors: /, but any color combination is easy due to Glimmervoid, Mox Opal and Springleaf Drum
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Blinkmoth Nexus and Inkmoth Nexus: if either of them gain +1/+1 counters (via Arcbound Ravager or Steel Overseer, for example), those counters aren't gone when they cease to be creatures at the end of turn.
- Cranial Plating: by paying , you can attach it at "instant" speed.
- Springleaf Drum: you can tap a creature that has just entered the battlefield under you control.
- Stony Silence: a foil to this deck, Stony Silence does prevent mana abilities from being activated, in particular those of Mox Opal and Darksteel Citadel.
- Torpor Orb: in the case of copying effects (ex. Clone), the copy effect still resolves, as this is a replacement effect. However, if the copied card has an enters-the-battlefield triggered ability, that triggered ability will not trigger.
Death's Shadow Zoo
- Description: A Zoo variant that utilizes Death's Shadow to deal a lot of damage very quickly. Yes, this involves doing a ton of damage to the player.
- Colors: All?
Specific Card Notes
- Description: Utilizing spells to drop key cards into the graveyard (Insolent Neonate or Faithless Looting), this deck proceeds to then utilize the dredge mechanic to set up a number of "free" creatures that will overwhelm the opponent.
- Colors:
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Prized Amalgam: The ability returning this creature from the graveyard is a delayed zone-change trigger. That means that the missed trigger remedy requires this trigger to be put on the stack automatically, no matter how much time has passed.
- Insolent Neonate: The discard ability is a cost, so if a dredge card is discarded, it can be dredged by the draw. Additionally, costs can be paid in any order when activating an ability, so it's possible to discard a Bridge from Below. then sacrifice the Neonate with Bridge in the graveyard to get a zombie token.
- Dredging too many cards: If a player dredges too many cards, the problem falls into an intermediate space between HCE, LEC, and GRV. The exact fix will depend on the specifics of the infraction; however, the LEC fix should always apply, since it's problematic to leave a known card on top of the library with dredge cards available.
Specific Card Notes
- Description: a combo/aggro deck that seeks to utilize the infect mechanic on creatures like Blighted Agent and Inkmoth Nexus, in combination with spells that pump a creature's power like Rancor, Giant Growth, and Noble Hierarch, to quickly kill the opponent.
- Colors: or , with the green version using lots of phyrexian mana spells
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Rancor and Apostle's Blessing: if Apostle's Blessing is cast on a creature and green is chosen, any Rancors on the creature will fall off during state-based actions and any Rancors on the stack targeting the creature will be countered upon resolution because it is no longer a legal target. This could happen in response to a green removal spell or ability such as Maelstrom Pulse. If Rancor "falls off," its triggered ability will trigger.
- Rancor and Inkmoth Nexus: suppose an Inkmoth Nexus is activated and Rancor is cast on it. During the cleanup step, Inkmoth Nexus will stop being a creature. State-based actions are checked and Rancor is put into the graveyard since it is no longer attached to a creature. This will trigger Rancor's triggered ability, and both players will get priority during the cleanup step before the Rancor is returned to hand.
- Pendelhaven: Some printings of this card do not make it obvious that this land is legendary.
- Vines of Vastwood: This card does not grant Hexproof. For instance if an opponent redirects a Vines of Vastwood to their Spellskite, they can still redirect further spells to it that turn but cannot target it with their own spells or abilities.
Jeskai Control
- Description: a control deck that takes control with removal, planeswalkers and countermagic, and wins with creatures or creature-lands (Celestial Colonnade).
- More recently has adopted Nahiri, the Harbinger and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn as a win condition.
- Colors: //
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Shadow of Doubt: it affects both players.
- Snapcaster Mage and X-spells: when casting a spell with flashback from the graveyard with X in the cost, X is announced after the player moves the card from the graveyard to the stack.
- Nahiri, the Harbinger draws and discards as part of the resolution of a single ability. If a player discards Emrakul this way, they will draw a card before shuffling in the graveyard.
Specific Card Notes
- Description: This is a midrange deck consisting of efficient and wide-ranging cards. Finishers vary but are typically difficult to remove.
- Colors:
Specific Card Notes
- Description: a aggro-control deck that makes a Merfolk army (notice the redundancy of "Lords") and backs it up with various forms of disruption.
- Colors: , with occasional splashes for or
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- "Lords" (Lord of Atlantis, Merrow Reejerey and Master of the Pearl Trident): pay particular attention to each one's wording. Lord of Atlantis gives ALL Merfolk bonuses, whereas Merrow Reejerey and Master of the Pearl Trident give ONLY YOUR Merfolk bonuses. Oracle text is your friend.
Red-Green Tron
- Description: a big-mana deck that uses cantrips and search effects to assemble "Urzatron" (the combination of Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant and Urza's Tower) as quickly as possible, to power out expensive, game-winning spells
- Colors: /
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Karn Liberated: CR 714 covers restarting the game.
Specific Card Notes
Tier Two Strategies
Tier two strategies usually fall within 2% through 4% metagame share. Tier two represent currently tournament viable decks that may or may not be present at any given event.
Ad Nauseam
- Description: a combo deck that wins by performing the following: cast a "don't die" spell (ex. Angel's Grace and Phyrexian Unlife, then cast Ad Nauseam to put the entire deck into hand, then cast Lightning Storm and make it lethal with all of the lands drawn from Ad Nauseam.
- Colors: ///
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Ad Nauseam: Perform actions in the order written. That is (summarizing): 1.) reveal the card, 2.) add it to hand, 3.) record life loss. You then have the option to repeat those steps in order again. Once you opt to stop, the spell has finished resolving.
- Lightning Storm: remember that priority is returned to the player who had it last after he or she casts a spell or activates an ability, and that the top-most object on the stack resolves as soon as both players pass priority.
- Description: a deck that uses burn spells in conjunction with inexpensive creatures to deal 20 damage to the opponent as quickly as possible.
- Colors: , often (Atarka's Command) and/or (Boros Charm).
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Goblin Guide: if two or more attack, the defending player will reveal the top card of his or her library once for each trigger, even if it's a nonland card revealed from the first trigger. Players will usually agree to show it just once in this case as a shortcut.
- Hell's Thunder and Hellspark Elemental: if an unearthed creature leaves the battlefield before the beginning of the end step, it is exiled.
- Leyline of Punishment:
- Spells and abilities that would normally cause a player to gain life still resolve, but the life-gain part simply has no effect.
- If a cost includes life gain, that cost can't be paid.
- Effects that would replace gaining life with some other effect won't be able to do anything because it's impossible for players to gain life.
- Effects that replace an event with gaining life will end up replacing the event with nothing.
- If an effect says to set a player's life total to a certain number, and that number is higher than the player's current life total, that part of the effect won't do anything.
- Damage prevention shields don't have any effect. If a prevention effect has an additional effect, the additional effect will still work (if possible). Spells that create prevention effects can still be cast, and abilities that create prevention effects can still be activated.
- Static abilities that prevent damage (including protection abilities) don't do so. If they have additional effects that don't depend on the amount of damage prevented, those additional effects will still work. Such effects are applied only once per source of damage.
- Shattering Spree and Trinisphere: replicate is an optional additional cost for a spell. If a player chooses not to replicate a Shattering Spree, Trinisphere forces the owner to pay an additional . If a player chooses to replicate a Shattering Spree once, the spell's total cost to cast (before Trinisphere) is . Trinisphere forces the player to pay an extra , in this case. If a player chooses to replicate a Shattering Spree twice, its total cost to cast is , which satisfies Trinisphere.
- Description: an aggressive stompy deck that plays expensive creatures cheaply via the fast mana of Eldrazi Temple.
- Bant () is the most common color combination.
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- World Breaker: You can't use Eldrazi Temple's second ability to bring back World Breaker as the card is not an Eldrazi in the graveyard.
- Eldrazi Temple: Note that mana from the second ability can't be used to pay for triggered abilities.
Grixis Control
Grixis Delver
- Description: a mix of Delver of Secrets with delve creatures, backed by disruption.
- Colors:
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Delver of Secrets: Although looking at the top card of the library during the upkeep is mandatory, the revealing of that card (if it's an instant or sorcery) is optional. The entire process (looking, revealing and transforming) are linked - once the trigger resolves, players cannot respond to the transformation.
Gruul Aggro
- Description: an aggro deck that most notably uses Burning-Tree Emissary to fuel explosive early aggression.
- Colors: /
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Burning-Tree Emissary: its triggered ability is not a mana ability.
- Ghor-Clan Rampager: bloodrush is an activated ability, so cards like Pithing Needle prevent activating it.
- Stormblood Berserker: bloodthirst is a static ability, not a triggered ability.
Kiki Chord
- Description: a combo deck that uses Chord of Calling to assemble the combo of Kiki-Jiki, the Mirrorbreaker and Restoration Angel.
- Colors: , sometimes splashing a fourth color.
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Eternal Witness, if gotten with Chord of Calling, can return the Chord when the triggered ability goes on the stack.
Specific Card Notes
- Description: a combo deck that relies on Scapeshift and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle's triggered ability. Sometimes uses Prismatic Omen.
- Colors: //
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle: if Prismatic Omen is destroyed in response to Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle's triggered abilities resulting from non-Mountain lands, the abilities won't resolve and no damage will be dealt. This happens because Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle's triggered ability contains an intervening "if" clause. (CR 603.4)
That means:
1. The ability won't trigger at all unless, at the time a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, you control five or more Mountains other than that new one.
2. The ability will be removed from the stack and do nothing if you control fewer than five Mountains other than that new one by the time the ability resolves.
The same rules apply if one of the lands brought onto the battlefield by Scapeshift is no longer on the battlefield when Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle's triggered abilities have the chance to resolve. (ex. Tectonic Edge's second activated ability in response to several Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle triggers when the Valakut is the sixth Mountain)
Titan Shift
- Description: A deck that utilizes Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle and Primeval Titan to win quickly.
- Some versions do not play Scapeshift and instead focus on the Titan plan, utilizing Through the Breach and Summoner's Pact.
Tier Three Strategies
Normally at less than 2% of the metagame, tier three strategies represent fringe decks that may or may not do well in any given event.
Aggro Loam
- Description: a midrange deck that utilizes Life from the Loam in combination with retrace spells (Flame Jab and Raven's Crime) and Seismic Assault.
- Colors: //
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- The retrace mechanic: whenever a spell or ability resolves, the active player receives priority. If the active player casts a spell that has retrace, that player may cast that card again after it resolves, before another player can remove the card from the graveyard.
- Casting a spell with retrace from the graveyard moves that card from the graveyard and onto the stack. Cards that prevent players from casting spells from graveyards (ex. Grafdigger's Cage) do not allow a player to retrace.
- Description: a deck that revolves around cheap creatures with hexproof (ex. Slippery Bogle) and enchant creature Auras to build an unstoppable monster.
- Colors: /
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Daybreak Coronet: Daybreak Coronet cannot be cast if there are no creatures already enchanted by another Aura. If Daybreak Coronet winds up the only Aura attached to a creature, it will be put into its owner's graveyard the next time state-based actions are checked.
- Ethereal Armor: Counts itself.
- Spellskite: Auras target when cast as spells (but never any other time). Spellskite can't redirect an Aura spell to itself if Spellskite can't legally be enchanted by it; notably, it can't redirect Daybreak Coronet if Spellskite itself has no Auras.
- Totem armor: if a creature enchanted with more than one Aura with totem armor is destroyed, only one totem armor will ultimately be destroyed. All other Auras stay attached. Also notice that totem armor is a replacement effect, not a triggered ability. An attacking creature spared from destruction/lethal damage via totem armor will not be removed from combat. If the creature and the enchantment(s) with totem armor would be destroyed simultaneously (ex. Engineered Explosives) the totem armor replacement effect will still take place and the creature will not be destroyed.
Death & Taxes
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- AEther Vial and Serra Avenger: AEther Vial allows its controller to put a creature card onto the battlefield rather than cast it. This allows a player to ignore Serra Avenger's casting restriction.
- Description: a synergistic mess of dredge cards (ex. Golgari Grave-Troll), creatures that can re-enter the battlefield from the graveyard (ex. Vengevine), and cards that help put these kinds of cards into the graveyard from the library or hand. (ex. Satyr Wayfinder and Faithless Looting)
- Colors:
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Vengevine: it doesn't matter if the creature spells cast in a turn were countered or not.
Specific Card Notes
- Description: A "combo" deck designed to go wide with mana generating elves and then utilizing Ezuri, Renegade Leader in conjunction with "lords" to overwhelm the opponent.
- Colors: , often splashing for sideboard cards.
- Description: an aggro deck that focuses on Goblin tribal themes and a low mana curve to overwhelm the opponent with an immediate wave of attacking creatures
- Colors:
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Goblin Grenade: the sacrifice is part of the cost. (CR 601.2g)
Lantern Control
- Description: combines Lantern of Insight, millrocks, and Ensnaring Bridge to prevent the opponent from plaing a game of Magic.
- Colors: Normally //, sometimes splashing or
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Deck may play Thopter Foundry and Sword of the Meek combo.
Living End
- Description: a deck that cycles and landcycles large creatures and uses a cascaded Living End (the only spell cheaper than the spells with cascade) to get them all onto the battlefield
- Colors: //
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Ethersworn Canonist and Rule of Law: if a spell with cascade is cast with either of these on the battlefield, it will resolve as normal. The cascaded spell cannot be cast, as a spell was already cast that turn (the spell with cascade). The card is shuffled onto the bottom with the rest of the revealed cards.
- Grafdigger's Cage: this does not stop Living End, as Living End exiles creature cards in graveyards first, then puts them onto the battlefield.
- Description: a combo deck that uses cheap draw spells and "rituals" (mana-producing spells) to create a high spell count in order to get the most out of a storm spell.
- Colors: /
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Manamorphose: you must name the color(s) to be added to your mana pool before drawing the card.
- Pyromancer Ascension: if you cast a storm spell with an "active" Pyromancer Ascension out, you can copy the original spell, but you will not get the storm copies, as storm triggers whenever you cast a spell. Copies are (usually) not cast - they are placed on the stack. Each copy resolves separately and can be responded to separately (by countering a spell, or casting another spell).
- Pyromancer Ascension's trigger does not have an intervening if clause. The trigger will put a quest counter on the Pyromancer Ascension even if all copies of the spell are removed from the graveyard in response.
- "Rituals" (Desperate Ritual and Pyretic Ritual): they can be countered.
White-Blue Tron
- Description: a big-mana deck that controls the game with countermagic and board sweepers, uses deck manipulation to find Urzatron pieces. and wins on the back of huge creatures or "infinite" Mindslaver recursion.
- Colors: /
To be Sorted
- Description: an aggro-control deck that uses disruptive creatures, often at instant speed. Additionally, its non-creature spells act as disruption (discard, tap lands/creatures effects), control (counterspell effects, token-producing effects) and high quantity of drawing.
- Colors: /
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Mistbind Clique: champion a Faerie doesn't target a Faerie and the Faerie that will be championed (if it is) is chosen upon resolution, not when it triggers.
- Mistbind Clique: if it leaves the battlefield with Champion a Faerie on the stack, and IF it still champions, it will not tap the lands, since it will not be on the battlefield when the champion ability resolves.
- Spellstutter Sprite: its triggered ability checks the value of X twice - when it's added to the stack, and when it resolves.
Genesis Wave
- Description: an acceleration deck that can generate a large amount of mana (ex. Garruk Wildspeaker and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx), and uses that mana to fuel a large Genesis Wave, among other mana-intensive plays.
- Colors: .
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Elvish Visionary and Wistful Selkie: their triggered abilities could result in drawing from an empty library.
- Genesis Wave and Auras: auras that would be put onto the battlefield (ex. Fertile Ground and Utopia Sprawl) can only enchant permanents that were on the battlefield prior to Genesis Wave's resolution, as all permanent cards revealed enter the battlefield simultaneously.
- Genesis Wave and Eternal Witness: if put onto the battlefield via Genesis Wave, a target for Eternal Witness's triggered ability is declared after Genesis Wave completes resolution and after state-based actions happen, so Genesis Wave would be a legal target for the triggered ability.
- Primeval Titan: its triggered ability is optional and allows the player to search for "up to" two land. Zero, one or two land are legal choices. A player could also "fail to find" land as this ability resolves, as that player is searching a hidden zone for cards of a certain value.
- Description: a control deck that uses Gifts Ungiven and several one-ofs to get "bullets" to address problems as they arise, or assemble combos that can handle a variety of matchups. Notable combos include: Iona, Shield of Emeria and Unburial Rites against a mono-colored deck; Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and Unburial Rites against small-creature decks, Infect and Splinter Twin; and Raven's Crime and Life from the Loam against combo and more slower decks. Flashback, retrace, dredge and Snapcaster Mage make choices harder for the opponent.
- Colors: typically ///
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Gifts Ungiven: note that this spell requires a target - an opponent. When Gifts Ungiven resolves, its controller MAY reveal up to four cards. Since the spell instructs the player to search for specific cards in a private zone, that player may fail to find as many cards as he or she chooses. If two or fewer cards are revealed, they will all go to the graveyard, as the (targeted) opponent chooses which of the revealed cards are sent there.
Hate Bears
- Description: an aggro deck that buys itself time and applies pressure with its disruptive early drops (typically two-drops, hence the name).
- Colors: /
Domain Zoo
- Description: a pseudo hybrid of Jund and Zoo - a five-color deck that runs most of the format's more powerful cheap spells.
- Colors: ////
Jeskai Ascendancy
- Description: a deck loaded with cantrips (ex. Gitaxian Probe) that seeks to abuse the combination of mana-producing creatures (ex. Arbor Elf) and its namesake Jeskai Ascendancy to create and attack with a large creature or two, or cast a spell that deals damage to a player equal to the size of the largest creature you have.
- Colors: with for mana producers and Glittering Wish
Mono-Blue Tron
- Description: similar to White-Blue Tron, but less reliant on sweepers and more dependent on counterspells.
- Colors:
Naya Midrange
- Description: a midrange deck that runs burn-resilient creatures (a single Lightning Bolt isn't as effective, for example) in conjunction with planeswalkers and the format's best removal spells
- Colors: //
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Domri Rade: both creatures must be on the battlefield in order to fight.
- Lotus Cobra: its triggered ability is *not* a mana ability.
- Description: a combo deck that revolves around discard outlets (ex. Faithless Looting) and "reanimation" spells (spells that put creatures onto the battlefield from the graveyard) to get expensive, powerful creatures into play quickly.
- Colors: , with and/or as additional colors
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Lightning Axe: if you cannot discard a card to satisfy the additional casting cost, you must pay the additional . If you cannot pay either additional cost, Lightning Axe cannot be cast.
- Through the Breach: putting a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield is optional.
- Description: a midrange deck that overwhelms the opponent with a small army of creature tokens. "Anthem" effects (such as Honor of the Pure and Intangible Virtue) and free spells cast via Windbrisk Heights add pressure at minimal resource cost.
- Colors: /
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Hero of Bladehold and Windbrisk Heights: the creatures must be declared as attackers in order to activate a Windbrisk Heights's second activated ability, not put onto the battlefield attacking.
- Windbrisk Heights: to "play" the card here means to either play it if it is a land, or to cast it if it is not a land.
White-Blue Midrange
- Description: a midrange deck that uses cheap creatures with strong enters-the-battlefield triggers to gain board advantage, in conjunction with countermagic and choice removal spells to keep control of the game.
- Colors: /
Blue Moon
- Description: a slower control deck that utilizes countermagic, spot removal, control effects and, most notably, mana denial. After it is established that the opponent can't cast much, if anything, thanks to Blood Moon and/or Spreading Seas, a creature of some sort will slowly but surely win the game.
- Colors: /
- Description: an aggressive tempo deck that plays cheap, explosive creatures in conjunction with removal and countermagic, to let these creatures deal as much damage as possible. Burn spells allow for extra reach.
- Colors: /, // or //
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Delver of Secrets: Although looking at the top card of the library during the upkeep is mandatory, the revealing of that card (if it's an instant or sorcery) is optional. The entire process (looking, revealing and transforming) are linked - once the trigger resolves, players cannot respond to the transformation.
Soul Sisters
- Description: a small creature deck that uses life gain from Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, and Martyr of the Sands, to power up creatures that care about life gain (Ajani's Pridemate) and life total (Serra Ascendant).
- Colors: , sometimes splashing
Deck-Specific Potential Issues:
- Emeria, the Sky Ruin and Felidar Sovereign: both triggered abilities contain intervening "if" clauses. The triggered ability's condition is checked as its owner's upkeep begins. If the ability's condition hasn't been met, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If the ability's condition has been met, the ability triggers and goes on the stack. As the ability resolves, that condition is checked again. If that condition is below the trigger threshold, the ability is removed from the stack and has no effect. If the condition is still satisfied, the ability resolves.
- Proclamation of Rebirth: if a player activates forecast, that player plays with that card revealed in his or her hand until it leaves the player's hand or until a step or phase that isn't an upkeep step begins, whichever comes first.
WUR Midrange
- Description: a low-curve, aggressive deck that aims to overwhelm with cheap yet strong creatures, and use pump/burn spells as support and/or finishers. It's not unusual to see some builds run more disruptive spells (such as countermagic, discard and land destruction). If Burn is about quantity, Zoo is about quality.
- Colors: // traditionally.
Specific Cards and Issues
Blood Moon/Magus of the Moon
- Nonbasic lands are simply given thebasic land subtype Mountain. Card types and supertypes do not change.
- If a land is given one or more basic land subtypes, it loses all abilities generated from its rules text and its old land subtypes, and it gains the appropriate mana ability for each basic land subtype given. (CR 305.7)
- Replacement effects that modify how a land enters the battlefield still happen.
- Putting this all together, a Breeding Pool would still be named Breeding Pool. It would lose its Forest and Island subtypes and gain the Mountain subtype. The player playing it still has the option to let it enter the battlefield tapped, or pay 2 life to let it enter the battlefield untapped.
- Darksteel Citadel will be an Artifact Land - Mountain. It will tap for and be destructible.
- Dryad Arbor is a Land Creature - Mountain Dryad under Blood Moon It is still a creature, is green due to its color indicator and taps for since it is a Mountain.
- Suppose Adam casts a Blood Moon and Eric activates his Raging Ravine's second activated ability in response. Raging Ravine's ability resolves first, becoming a red and green 3/3 Land Creature - Elemental, with a triggered ability. Blood Moon resolves next.
- Until end of turn, Raging Ravine is a red and green 3/3 Land Creature - Mountain Elemental, with a triggered ability. It retains the triggered ability because this is considered an ability granted by other effects. (CR 305.7)
- As long as Blood Moon is on the battlefield, Raging Ravine can only be tapped for . Its second activated ability (becomes a creature) cannot be activated since it no longer exists (in a game sense).
Blood Moon/Magus of the Moon and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- With Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, dependency applies (CR 613.7), since both effects are applied in Layer 4: Type-Changing Effects (CR 613.1d). In this specific case, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth's effect is dependent of Blood Moon's and/or Magus of the Moon's effect. So, Blood Moon and Magus of the Moon effects are applied, and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is a Legendary Land - Mountain. Other nonbasic lands are Mountains per Blood Moon's and/or Magus of the Moon's static ability.
Chord of Calling and Wall of Roots Interaction
- A player could give Wall of Roots a fifth -0/-1 counter AND tap it for convoke. State-based actions are not checked during the casting of a spell. When Chord of Calling has been cast, state-based actions are checked and take effect; Wall of Roots would be sent to the graveyard for having zero toughness.
Chromatic Sphere versus Chromatic Star
- Chromatic Sphere's draw is tied in with the mana ability. You must choose the color of mana to be added AND complete the casting of the spell before drawing the card (CR 401.5).
- Chromatic Star's draw comes from a triggered ability, separate from the mana ability. If used for mana, it will stack above the spell just cast or ability just activated/triggered.
- It can be cast with X equal to 0. Even though players are always able to pay a cost of 0, they are not obligated to. (note that our communication policy states that players are assumed to have paid costs of 0 unless indicated.) Regardless of X being paid or not, Condescend's controller will still be able to scry 2.
Cumulative Upkeep
- You must be able to pay a cumulative upkeep cost in its entirety exactly as written. Should you fail to do so, the permanent will be sacrificed. For example, if you put an age counter on Jötun Grunt, then cannot put exactly two cards from a single graveyard on the bottom of their owner's library (perhaps there's one card in each graveyard), Jötun Grunt will be sacrificed.
Dark Confidant
- If its triggered ability is missed, the infraction is Missed Trigger, not Game Rule Violation. The fix is to ask the opponent if he wants the ability put on the stack. However, if the controller puts a card into their hand for Dark Confidant without revealing it, this IS a Game Rule Violation and should be handled accordingly. ("An error that an opponent can't verify the legality of should have its penalty upgraded.")
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
- You get the additional turn only if you cast it.
- IPG 2.1: the casting trigger changes the rules of the game. In order for the trigger to be considered missed, the trigger's controller must fail to prevent his or her opponent from starting his or her turn.
- If you have fewer than 7 life, you cannot activate the ability.
Kataki, War's Wage
- The triggered ability granted to other artifacts is detrimental no matter by which player the artifact is controlled.
Life from the Loam
- You cannot dredge Life from the Loam if you have fewer than 3 cards in your library.
Liliana of the Veil
- The discard happens simultaneously, but the active player(s) must choose what to discard before the opponent(s). Players can distinguish the chosen card without revealing it. For example, Adam activates the +1 ability. He sets aside his card to be discarded. Nathan does the same. Both players discard at the same time, the identity of the cards made public at this time.
- You cannot use your own Liliana of the Veil's +1 loyalty ability to sneak your Loxodon Smiter and/or Obstinate Baloth into play. The discarding must be from an opponent's spell or ability.
Martyr of Sands
- Sacrificing Martyr and revealing the cards in hand are part of the activation cost. Cards revealed stay in the zone they're in, unless otherwise specified.
- CR 712 details what can and can't be done to, or on behalf of, a controlled player. MTR 3.15 states that a controlled player's sideboard may be viewed by the controlling player.
- When a player controls another player's turn, it is tempting to vary the handling of missed triggers. However, the player being controlled is still responsible for their triggers. It should be remembered that they are not in control of the pacing of the game, so they should be given a reasonable time to notice the trigger before it is considered missed.
Monocolored Hybrid
- Their converted mana costs are 6, so an Inquisition of Kozilek won't nab a Flame Javelin or Spectral Procession.
Nahiri, the Harbinger
- If a player uses the +2 ability and draws before discard, the infraction is Hidden Card Error and the fix is to reveal the hand and the opponent chooses one card that cannot be discarded. Then proceed with discarding from the remaining cards.
- w/ Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: If discarded to the +2 ability, the card should be drawn before the graveyard is shuffled into the library. If this is done in the wrong order, the infraction is a Game Rule Violation and we will backup only if we can rebuild the graveyard in it's entirety.
Prized Amalgam
- Amalgam must be in the graveyard at the time a creature is put onto the battlefield. An Amalgam that ends up in your graveyard afterwards will remain in the graveyard.
Scavenging Ooze
- Its activated ability targets. If the ability's target is illegal when the ability would resolve, the entire ability is countered. Scavenging Ooze will neither get a +1/+1 counter nor gain its controller 1 life if the targeted creature card is already gone.
- Its activated ability cannot be used "in response" to casting a spell from a graveyard (ex. flashing back Lingering Souls or summoning Gravecrawler from the dead), as the spell is already on the stack at that point.
- There will likely be known cards in the library in a particular order, so remember this when applying fixes involving shuffling.
Serra Ascendant
- If it's involved in combat and is dealt 5 or fewer damage as a 1/1 while its controller is at 29 life, it will be a 6/6 with flying by the time state-based actions are checked.
Shortcutting Loops
- CR 716.2 details the procedure taken in creating a shortcut for a loop. This is relevant for combo decks that win by performing repetitive action.
- As you cast a spell, if a card in your hand could be spliced onto that spell, reveal that card. The revealed card's text box is added to the spell being cast. This happens before you choose targets.
- For example, as you cast Through the Breach, you want to splice onto it Goryo's Vengeance. Reveal Goryo's Vengeance and add its text to Through the Breach. For all intents and purposes, Through the Breach now reads: "You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step. Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step." The entire spell is red and has a converted mana cost of five. This spell needs one target in order to be cast legally: a legendary creature card in your graveyard.
- Note that the card to be spliced onto a spell must be in your hand.
- For example. if a Desperate Ritual in your graveyard has flashback, you can splice a Desperate Ritual from your hand onto it. However, you cannot splice if the second Desperate Ritual is in the graveyard.
Split Cards
- If revealed through cascade, if either side is less than the converted mana cost of the cascade spell, you may cast either side.
- If revealed through Dark Confidant's triggered ability, its controller loses life equal to the sum of the costs.
- A split card can only be fused if cast from hand.
- The copies created from the triggered ability are not cast. When the triggered ability resolves, the copies are placed on the stack. Countering a card with storm only counters the original spell, so copies will remain on the stack.
- If a player is using storm cards to win, it is highly recommended that he or she publicly keep track of the "storm count," as well as the amounts and kinds of mana created and spent while "going off." Dice and/or pen and paper are sufficient.
- Spells go to the graveyard after resolution, but before state-based actions are checked. If graveyards contain only creatures and lands when a Lightning Bolt (an instant) targeting Tarmogoyf (a 2/3) resolves, it will be a 3/4 with 3 damage on it when state-based actions are next checked.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
- Both players' noncreature spells cost one more mana to cast, not just the opponent's.
- The hand is revealed.
- A card MUST be taken, if possible.
Tribal Flames
- X is not locked in until Tribal Flames resolves.
- Be aware that older versions of Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant and Urza's Tower have alternate arts. You could very well see all twelve pieces with twelve different illustrations.
- The Urza's lands actually have two land types each: "Urza's" and whatever the land itself is supposed to be. (ex. Urza's Tower is "Urza's" and "Tower.")
- Urzatron cares only about land types, not card name. For example, if Adam's Grove of the Burnwillows gains the land types "Urza's" and "Tower" and he controls Urza's Mine and Urza's Power Plant, Urza's Mine and Urza's Power Plant will each produce rather than . By the same token, if Urza's Power Plant is enchanted by Spreading Seas, Urza's Mine and Urza's Tower will each produce instead of ; while the name is still Urza's Power Plant, its land type changed from "Urza's" and "Power-Plant," to "Island."
Vedalken Shackles
- If a "manland" (ex. Treetop Village) is Shackled, control will not change back when it returns to being just a land. So long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped, control of the permanent will not revert. It only cares about target legality when (1.) activated and (2.) when the activated ability resolves.


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When Ayo Kimathi clocks out of work as a small business specialist working in procurement for the Department of Homeland Security, he sometimes assumes an alter ego as "the Irritated Genie." According to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, this man is different than the Kimathi who has built a profile for himself as a public face at various events for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a division of DHS.
While Kimathi "fights for the little guy" at his day job, a former DHS supervisor told SPLC, "the Irritated Genie" spends much his time as a militant black nationalist preparing for what he calls an "inevitable clash with the white race." In a website, called "War on the Horizon," Kimathi has posted a variety of content telling his followers that they must prepare to "kill a lot of whites" and to engage in the "ethnic cleansing" of "black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors."
Gay men and women were also a popular target. Kimathi dedicates an entire section of the site to warning against the "Effeminization of the Black Male," which he calls a "weapon of mass destruction" used against the black community. It appears that Kimathi has also written a book on the topic of "white sex-assault," which he is selling on Amazon for more than $750.

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The tornado damage scale
A: Tornadoes have been reported on every continent except Antarctica, which does not have the needed contrast between warm and cold air and also the humid air needed for thunderstorms to form.
One good source of information about tornadoes in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, is the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORO). An article in the U.S. Military's Stars and Strips newspaper on European tornadoes is a good overview, which also mentions twisters in other parts of the world.
The Australian Severe Weather Web site has a page on tornadoes, including information on storm chasing in Australia. The Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology (Australia's national weather service) has a page on tornadoes in the state of New South Wales and another page with history of some tornadoes in Australia.
Someone who is serious about learning more about tornadoes in other parts of the world should check a paper by Harold Brooks and Charles A. Doswell III of the National Severe Storms Lab on Some aspects of the international climatology of tornadoes by damage classification. The paper's notes and list of data sources would be extremely helpful. (Related:Text of the paper)
On of the best resources for all kinds of information about tornadoes is the Tornado Project. It has the most complete list of U.S. tornadoes that you'll find and is beginning to list tornadoes in other parts of the world. The Asia listing has a clickable map that will take you to information about tornadoes in China, India, and Bangladesh. At the time I did this, the listings for other Asian nations had not been published.
The Tornado Project has also started a listing of South American tornadoes. A listing for Argentina was published when I checked.


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K. Michelle Says Her Ex Was Too Young For Her!
K. Michelle had an interview with The Skorpion Show and she had a few things to say about her most recent breakup.
Lance Stephenson dated K. Michelle for most the summer and while it seemed like a promising relationship, the two broke it off about a month ago. K. Michelle didn't want to talk about the situation at first but she's ready to talk.
"He's [Lance] cool, he's a sweetheart. It's good, it's whatever. When you mentally have other issues going on, (I'm talking about me) it's very hard to get into a new relationship. I just feel like there was a big age gap in that situation and… I'm just a handful.
"I know I'm a lot. And to ask a 23-year-old to understand this job too…and being 23, trying to date somebody you never dated…an artist or things like that. Then you're in the NBA and you want to sling d**k and be 23 and…I'm not having it. So, he needs to go be 23 and sling pe**s."


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- Has anyone on here successfully installed PhotoDraw 2000 v2 on Vista 64-bit?
- If so, how did you do it? How can I install this? I (will) have Vista Home Pre 64 (in a few days).
(PS: I have no clue about dual boots or compatibility mode...actually I've never even seen Vista in person before.)
- This program was/is one of the BEST!!!!
PS: Win XP wasn't exactly friendly towards PhotoDraw 2000 v2 (so I've read). And Office 2007 isn't exactly friendly towards it either (so I've read).
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- How is understanding the other's perspective like "Sneaky Strokes?"
Consider how many of you immediately recognized sneaky strokes as reverse behavioral modification. You called it that because you realized that in behavioral modification we reinforce the behavior we want. In sneaky strokes we offer the reinforcement when we don't get the behavior we want. But we aren't reinforcing "not getting" the behavior we want. We're searching for something in the relatively recent past for something that was very similar to what we do want, and then reinforcing that. Hopefully, stimulus generalization will serve to help the person whose behavior we're trying to shape generalize to the new behavior we want.
In both sneaky strokes and understanding the other's perspective, we are adding qualitative understanding to our decision for reinforcement. Remember that Thorndike revoked his second law of learning. He acknowledged that punishment does not work. We don't really learn effectively when we are punished for the wrong behavior. We learn instead to avoid the punishment. With sneaky strokes and searching for the other's perspective, we are looking for something we can reinforce rather than simply punishing an omission we're trying to correct.
In transaction analysis therapy, back in the 70's, we used to talk about "good strokes" being better than "bad strokes," and "bad strokes" being better than "no strokes at all." That's because "bad strokes" are at least some connection, some recognition that you exist, but "good strokes" are lots, lots better. That's why Susan and I adopted long ago "Good Dog." We're reminding ourselves to give "good strokes." We all need them. "Good Dog," for us, says "I see where you're going. Yeah, it makes sense. It's feedback, that we're on track. And we often forget to give such feedback, especially as a "good stroke." (See Withholding Compliments in Everyday Life.
- Why am I (jeanne) suggesting that we use the code phrase, "(humility of knowledge)" on transform_dom?
Consider that our purpose on transform_dom is to broaden our understanding of others and build a bridge of lifetime learning with the broader community the college serves. That's an illocutionary discourse goal. But we are also concerned with educating all of us so that we can more readily make decisions we will have to make as citizens on social justice and criminal justice issues. Our values, feelings, beliefs will carry more weight in the field of persuading others if they are well-informed. That means that we want to take into consideration what the academy can share with us on these issues. But academy research carries the perspective of the academy. It's biased. Just like each of us has biases because we experience the world through our own perspective, our own eyes, our own feelings, our own values and beliefs.
If we add the code phrase, "(humility of knowledge)" to an explanation based on academy research, we are reminding ourselves, collectively, to recognize that the academy perspective does not have any privilege that protects it from bias. The academy, like us, must remain constantly aware of the possibility of finding what it wants to find, sometimes on purpose, sometimes without meaning to. There is a long tradition of respecting the academy's "objectivity," but recent events in stem cell research should make it clear to all that the academy falls victim to manipulation and deceit, as well as to out-of-awreness biases to which we are all subjected. We have the same problem with respect for political and governmental authority. Politicians and governments, too, have prespectives. So our code phrase, "(humility of knowledge)" is important with most authorities. And Jan Bonda, in the One Purpose of God, reminds us that religious bodies have the same problem.
And Jan Bonda, in the One Purpose of God, reminds us that religious bodies have the same problem. He says that the whole tradition of his Dutch Reformed Evangelical Church has been wrong about "eternal damnation," and he basis that conclusion on a book-length exegesis of the Christian Scriptures. Now, of course, Bonda could also be wrong. Once again, we need the code phrase, "(humility of knowledge)." The Catholic Church taught me that the Pope was infallible, but I could never figure how they figured that. How does the Pope's perspective become "omniscient"? Isn't that reserved to God? "Omniscient" would suggest that one "knew" all perspectives.
Anyway, isn't humility a Christian virtue?
- What do you think was the main purpose of my posting the Harvard article on Perspective Taking?
I hope everyone has noticed that I always try to give us scholarly sources for a theoretical grounding on which to make our decisions and form our opinions and beliefs. That unfortunately leads me on some of these endless paths from which I have to find my way back to our discussion. I took off on one of these paths when I started to post bits and pieces from the article, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Perspective Taking in Groups. By Eugene M. Caruso, Nicholas Epley, and Max H. Bazerman. Harvard University. Department of Psychology.
The article seemed to me to explain our dilemma on transform_dom. As a discussion community, dedicated to understanding the dominant discourse in our society, and trying to develop our skills for making independent and reasoned judgments instead of just going along with the dominant discourse (what everyone is saying), we keep tripping over own individual needs for instrumental discourse (Greg's debate) and our commitment to understanding and hearing one another (illocutionary discourse). The article helped me to increase my awareness of how complex and difficult it is to not assume the other is selfish or ill prepared or less astute than I would like. We need to remember the needs and pitfalls in trying to understand the other's perspective. And I think the articlecan help us in that.


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As part of our fight against spam we are currently considering getting rid of social groups. Since we brought them in a couple of years ago they have been huge spam magnets and don't appear to be being used for much else.
Before we go ahead and do so, I want to gauge how you feel about that. Is anyone actively using them for good (as opposed to evil)?
ditch them
vBulletin isn't facebook
As I don't use them I'd second that proposal of vaporising them (especially it they are huge spam-magnets).
Noone uses them. Chuck 'em
Never seen them. Never use them.
There's other channels (outside of SitePoint) that are better suited for that type of activity.
I put my foot squarely with the rest of the pack, ditch them.
They need serious work to be useful. I vote for ditching them.
+1 ditch them, they've hardly been used.
Off with their heads! :lol:
The only one I've found beneficial to me is The Official LOLcats at Sitepoint and it was only beneficial in a personal way in that it made me laugh my butt off! But I don't think it's really necessary to keep that Social Group or any of the others.
It's just an added feature that isn't used or really cared about. It's just there. And now that the groups come with avatars in your profile rather than just text, it bloats peoples profiles up too. Me no likey. :nono:
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Fairly unanimous then! We'll get rid of them. Thanks.


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Philippos Hotel is built in the local architecture and colours with many pergolas covered in bougainvillea and surrounded by a garden full of roses, palm trees, lemon trees, bitter orange trees (gardening being the owner's pastime). All studios & apartments have a fully equipped kitchen and a private balcony, and they come with free Air-Conditioning, Wi-Fi and Satellite TV.
Philippos Hotel is very close to the village centre facilities and yet far away from the noise and town buzz. It is very conveniently located amongst olive groves, in a quiet and friendly neighbourhood, making this an ideal base for your holiday. Philippos Hotel has a reception area where you can exchange currency, use a safety deposit box, fax and telephone services, and the staff are quite happy to provide any kind of information that they can. There is also an Souvenir & Beach Accessory Shop on site, offering anything that you may find useful during your stay.
There are two swimming pools, one for adults and one for children, with fresh water treated daily, while the sun beds & umbrellas are free of charge for our guests. There is also a pool bar serving snacks throughout the day, where you may enjoy your choice of breakfast, snacks and cocktails.
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Running Wild
Riptide Publishing
June 30, 2014
Havoc MC, Book 1
Embrace the danger…
Sean Rush is an adrenaline junkie. That's why he was in the Army, why he steals and races classic muscle cars . . . and why he can't stay away from bad boy Ryker, a Havoc Motorcycle Club lieutenant. Fortunately, Ryker can't seem to stay away from Sean—he's spent the last eight months breaking into Sean's apartment and stealing into his bed, leaving Sean physically satisfied but increasingly restless.
Sean has always avoided relationships. He likes to come and go without being controlled. And Ryker is possibly the most controlling man he's ever known. Still, he finds that he wants more from Ryker than their silent nighttime encounters.
Then one of Sean's thefts goes bad, and Ryker's protective instincts kick into overdrive. He takes Sean to the Havoc compound, determined to keep him safe. But Sean's past threatens the safety of Havoc—and everything Ryker holds dear. Worse, Ryker's hiding secrets of his own. Soon it's obvious that the adrenaline rush can't keep them together anymore. But maybe love can.
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Don't need love
I still wasn't entirely convinced it wasn't a dream.
Every single time he broke into my house, I had to convince myself it wasn't a dream.
I never knew when he'd show, couldn't plan for the times he'd yank the sheet off me before the mattress shifted under his weight. His hands were big and rough on my bare back, and when he flipped me over and skimmed between my legs, that heated rough on my cock was heaven.
So was the big, hot body on mine.
I didn't know if I should be stopping it. But why would I? Hot sex, no commitment. Hell, no talking. Most of the time just a soundtrack of classic rock, punctuated mostly by the Grateful Dead, which made the whole thing so goddamned hot. It was the perfect non-relationship for a guy like me, since my lifestyle was completely non-conducive to relationships.
But this guy wasn't just any guy. No one in my twenty-four years had ever had the balls to pull this kind of break and enter shit with me. I was impressed. Fascinated.
Guy was a shadow. I was used to moving through places unnoticed, but he had it down to an art form. But he definitely wanted to be noticed when he came into my bed. And he was strong. Stronger than I was, which was no easy feat.
He was tattooed. Always bore a couple of bite marks after we finished. I couldn't help myself—I liked the idea of leaving my mark, but then I was always hoarse the mornings after he visited.
He liked to study me in that brief space of time post sex, before I crashed. I could see the appreciation in his dark eyes, and it made me squirm. He'd notice that I was somewhere between embarrassed and enjoyment and he'd chuckle, low and husky, and that made my cock hard. Again.
I wanted to ask him why the hell he kept breaking in, but I didn't. It was obvious to me—he wanted to fuck. And I was acquiescing when I normally wouldn't have. I liked control, all types, all the time. But during these visits, it didn't matter.
He made me dizzy. Pliant. Incoherent.
I could tell he liked me that way. Expected it.
He'd take his sweet time—always did—but I always got what I needed when I needed it. He didn't hold anything back, would stop me from thinking, worrying. Taking all the shit from my shoulders for those hours.
The whole thing was a free fall every single time. I pleaded for it, gave it up with no shame because sex shouldn't have shame. And I wasn't ashamed of this at all…but I didn't know if I was supposed to be his secret…or if he was mine.
Why the hell did I think about it this hard, this much?
I was getting seriously laid on a regular basis. More orgasms than anyone had a right to. Fucked blind and dumb.
Fucked to sleep.
And then he'd leave. I never knew how long he stayed, pretended I didn't give a shit. But I'd wake up in the morning and tell myself he'd stayed for a while after I went to sleep, even though I had no idea if he had or not. Because I pretty much passed out by the end of it, the good kind of exhausted where I was so comfortable I probably had a stupid smile on my face when I did so.
Did he tire me out purposely?
Furthermore, how did he get into my place? It was locked down tight. In my more lucid moments, I thought about adding another dead bolt, more locks and a different security system, all at once, just to see if he could still get through.
But what if he couldn't?
It was what stopped me every single time.


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- Rihanna is trying to get knocked up by Jay-Z. That's the only explanation here. [Bossip]
- Brad Pitt reiterates his lie about why he won't marry Angelina Jolie. This time with an Italian accent! [Just Jared]
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While cannabis can do harm at any age, the brain appears to be at its most vulnerable to this harm in adolescence, according to a study in BMC Neuroscience.
The study shows the system of the brain responsible for mediating the effects of cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, undergoes much change in adolescence and interfering with these changes by using cannabis could have consequences.
The authors, from Neuroscience Research Australia, say this finding is significant considering cannabis is commonly used in adolescence, a time when adult behaviours are being developed.
While the endocannabinoid system is involved in appetite, pain sensation, mood and memory, it also affects the way neurons in the brain communicate with each other.
Cannabis interferes with this communication role and is likely to have a higher impact if it happens at a time when achieving balance in communication between neurons is very important, such as adolescence.
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The U.S. District Court for Colorado on Friday blocked the Obama administration from requiring an air-conditioning company in Colorado to provide no co-pay contraceptives to its employees, as the Affordable Care Act directs.
It was, as Sam Baker points out, the first time a federal court has ruled against that provision of the health-care law.
It's not yet, however, exactly a victory for the contraceptive mandate's opponents: The injunction is specific to that one company, and it holds only until the judge can reach a verdict on the case's merits. Still, it could mark the start of a long period of litigation involving one of the health-care law's most polarizing provisions.
Hercules v. Sebelius is a case brought by Hercules Industries, a Colorado-based air-conditioning company. The four siblings who own the business say they oppose contraceptives -- such medications are not included in their current health coverage plan -- and "seek to run Hercules in a manner that reflects their sincerely-held religious beliefs."
The health-care law's required coverage of contraceptives without co-pay is slated to come into effect next week, on Aug. 1. Religious institutions that primarily serve individuals are exempt from the requirement. Those that are faith-driven but tend to have workers outside their faith must comply, but got a one year reprieve. Hercules, as an air-conditioning company, does not fall into either category.
Hercules is challenging the birth control mandate as a First Amendment violation, inhibiting its ability to practice religion freely. The company also argues that the mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, a law from the 1990s that is meant to afford greater legal protection to religious institutions from federal requirements that "substantially burden" their ability to practice religion.
The question before the judge was, essentially: Should the requirement be blocked until the case is decided, or should it be allowed to come into effect as court proceedings go forward?
Judge John Kane took the former opinion, saying that he did see a possibility that this mandate could represent a "substantial burden" on Hercules Industries' ability to practice religion and, as such, should be held up until a verdict was reached. He was careful, however, to specify that his ruling applied only to this one business.
"It does not," he wrote, "enjoin enforcement of preventive care for any other party."
That leaves Kane, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, still to decide on the actual merits of the case -- and he has already shown some skepticism of the government's case for the contraceptive mandate in his initial writing.
One issue he writes about in detail has to do with the Religious Freedom Restoration Ac. If a religious organization can prove that a "substantial burden does exist" on their right to practice their religion, RFRA does give the government a way to fight back: It can argue that, while the law is burdensome, it achieves a compelling government interest in the least restrictive way possible.
Kane, in this document, doesn't necessarily seem to buy the government's argument that it has taken the least restrictive approach. Couldn't it, for example, just provide free contraceptives itself, taking employers out of the matter altogether?
"Defendants have failed to adduce facts establishing that government provision of contraceptives would necessarily entail logistical and administrative obstacles defeating the ultimate purpose of providing no-cost preventive health care to women," Kane writes. "Once again, the existence of analogous programs heavily outweighs such an argument."
This is still a bit of tea-leaf reading right now -- we won't know the verdict until, well, the judge actually issues one. What we do know, however, is this: The judge saw something in the plaintiff's arguments in this case compelling enough to hold off on enforcing the contraceptive mandate for at least one company. We'll soon learn whether they're compelling enough for him to grant the challengers a win.
For those who want to take a deep dive into this, the full text of the court decision is available below:


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Still. If Ford was in Smash Bros., what would be his moveset? Or his specials? What guns would he take into the fight?
"A closet intellectual, he acts dumb to impress women."
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he could be like snake
I think too much, and not in a smart way.....
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UltimateFlame13 7 years ago#3
Here's my first thoughts. Kind of sad that its hard to fit all of his cool guns and grenades into a moveset :(
A moves/aerials:
assorted punches and kicks. Nothing too special here
B: (2 ideas for this one)
Radiation Grenades-
Throws them out and they stick to other players or the terrain. Does continuous damage to anyone near them. Disappear after a bit of time and only a certain amount of them can be out at once.
SCAR- every time you tap B you fire it's 3 shot burst in the direction you are facing.. (more boring, but I figure this would be the most expected move to have).
B Forward- Shrieker
Works a lot like Pits controllable arrows except there's a small explosion when the shot hits something.
B Down- Aegis Device
Hold down to catch any projectiles and throws them back after its released. Get hit by too many projectiles and it fails. If you hold it out too long and it runs out of energy it will need to recharge. Can move while this is out.
B Up- Carbonizer? (I have no idea for this one honestly. I can't think of anything he uses that would help him get some height)
Points the carbonizer straight down and it propels him in a somewhat controllable upward direction as well as hitting anyone below. The carbonizer can only keep up the fire for so long before it gives out and Ford once again begins falling.
Final Smash: Pulls out the AR-C Eclipse and cloaks to escape from the screen. Just in time too because the leviathan appears to whips its tentacles around the stage and fires it's gg laser at everyone.
1. Pulls out the ASE to let it hover in his hands and scan around a bit
2. Takes a drink of orange soda
3. Some kind of pose with a gun and a cool quote.
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^ his qoute for 3 could be "Sometimes one man is all it takes" or something like that
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UltimateFlame13 7 years ago#5
From: BrownsM1 | #004
yeah that would be a good one
From: UltimateFlame13 | #003
Forgot to mention that this can fire off 3 at a time like the regular shrieker in game. They're harder to control and you have a longer amount of time before you can fire it again if you shoot all 3 out at once.
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dude, that would be so cool if he was in brawl! he would probably be a snake clone tho, which isnt very original
and, of course, they would have to actually make a new ssb game...
The_Shader 7 years ago#7
- Mr. Fords move set
(some of Mr. Ford's moves change depending on his last used weapon, to make him unique)
Normal B (Deatomizer MK4) = Equips Deatomizer MK4 and fires a 3 round burst. limited range, shoots only forward, and doesn't flinch enemys unless all 3 energy shots hit.
Forward B (Strike Rifle. hold only) = Equipping the Striker, Mr. Ford becomes stationary and stands tall to aim properly. He starts charging the Striker and you're able to aim it any direction, even below you. The alien weapon charges in 3.5 seconds, and has 3 stages of fire. Below 1.5 second has no projectiles. After 1.5 seconds is a small triangle of bio-mass with limited range. At 2.5 seconds, the gun is fully charged for a long range laser beam, the gun automatically goes off after 3.5 seconds.
Down B (Random Grenade, no holding) = Mr. Ford tosses one of his 3 grenades. The throws are a set distance, and velocity. 45% chance to throw a Hand Grenade, it has high bounce and a small blast radius (7% Damage, 9% if its a direct hit). 35% is a a Flash Grenade, no bounce, it explodes at first impact. if it explodes in front of an opponent, they get stunned for awhile. (2% Damage total, only those who are stunned gets hurt). 20% chance is the Radiation Grenade. Also no bounce, it sticks to the first thing it touches, and stays there. it hurts whatevers near and does 5% damage at a 2 second interval, 5 times. (25% damage maximum)
Up B = Trust Suit High Jump. Mr. Ford does a second, rather quick, mid-air jump. (a pure recovery move.)
Normal A (unequips current weapon) = a very fast 2 hit combo. A quick right straight, then a left hook. (3%, 5%)
Forward Mid-A (No Weapon) = A forward sweep with the right leg. Weak, but quick with good range, it connects with his Normal A. (5%)
(Weapons Special) Mr. Ford performs a two hit semi-smash with the weapon he used last. it has shorter range, but is stronger. Cant connect before/after Normal A (10%)
Down Mid-A (unequips weapon) = Mr. Ford kicks down low then hops a step backwards. Quick move, it moves him a bit backwards. Very helpful with his Normal B.
Up Mid-A = Mr. Ford leans to his and jams his right arm's elbow upward. Good reach, but purely vertical.
Forward Smash (Nothing Equipped) = Mr. Ford takes a step back, and beginr twisting his torso. His suit sparks electricity over the stress, Mr. Ford then unwinds leading with a right hook, then a midair sweep with his left leg. (5%, 12%. When fully charged, 12% then 19%.)
(With any Weapon) = Mr. Ford takes a step back and twists his torso just like before, but holds and charges his last used weapon. Mr. Ford then jams the weapon forward and shoots a charged shot. (6%, 6%, no projectile. Fully charged is 6%, then 26% with any weapon. This smash is really slow, but much more versatile and useful, because it shoots a projectile.
Down Smash (Carbonizer) = Mr. Ford crouches and begins shooting the Carbonizer to husband side. the longer you charge the smash, the bigger the carbonizer gets. After release Micheal swings the Carbonizer around him, aiming at the ground. 8% in front and back with no charge. With charge, its 15% infront and 20% behind him.
Up Smash (Shrieker) = Mr. Ford sits down to his side and begins loading the Shrieker, then aims up and fires the alien bio-mass. No charge fires 1 shrieking ammo, fully shoots 3. Each shot hits for 8% damage, and they fly upward in a very quick, spiral pattern. This is Mr. Fords quickest weapon smash.
(i am ****ing DONE)
Sparkster returns after 16 years in..... "Rocket Knight"
My Alias for Conduit= "Shader" Monster Hunter Tri= "Deimos"
The_Shader 7 years ago#8
(Mr. Ford has no air attacks in my move list, because i ran out of space to type, and i stopped caring >_> )
Sparkster returns after 16 years in..... "Rocket Knight"
My Alias for Conduit= "Shader" Monster Hunter Tri= "Deimos"
Flame, the SCAR, I believe, would be out of the question for the same reason Snake doesn't have any guns. Oh, but man, I can't think of an Up B either.
Shader, where are the Con2 weapons? But I like the idea of whatever his last equipped weapon changing his moveset. Here's my setup:
Neutral B - Phase Rifle. Think of this as a long-range Falcon Punch in that is slow to execute, and you are completely immobile and vulnerable while performing it. Hold B and a targeting reticule appears... you must use the analog to keep this reticule on an enemy until the heat signature identifier beeps, then you can fire at will. The shot will go through walls, but it can be shielded or evaded with proper timing. It's the ultimate anti-camp machine.
Forward B - Aegis Device. You can't move while holding B, but capture any physical projectiles in the vicinity and can shoot them back in any direction using the Analog to aim. The Aegis Device has the side effect of pulling you toward the direction you're pointing the device (like a carrot does to a horse), so you can use it as a 3rd jump by pointing upward.
Down B - AC-R Eclipse. Ford shoots the Eclipse from a crouched position if you tap it. Sort of like Fox's Laser except the more you shoot the hotter the gun gets and the more damage each shot does, and it can overheat. If you hold B you cloak and stay cloaked until the gun jams. You're completely invisible for about 3 seconds or so (so the only way of knowing where you are is just keeping track of your controller movements) giving you time to reposition yourself on the battlefield or maybe hide the startup lag of some strong move.
Up B - Hive Cannon. By holding B, Ford fires the wasp-things full-auto upward at a slight angle. They start off really accurate but become erratic the longer you hold it. This in itself is a nice edge-guarding technique. By tapping B, Ford shoots the nectar ball in an arc. No matter where it lands, the wasp-things will curve toward it. If it lands on an enemy, or the enemy steps on it, the wasp-things will curve to seek him out. Even if the nectar ball is on the environment, you can still use it to your advantage to make your wasp-things not fly straight upward, making them curve so they have a more offensive trajectory.
Ford's Smash Attacks are his grenades, and like most smash attacks, they have considerable startup lag. Down Smash is a Flashbang that stuns enemies near him; the closer they are the longer the stun lasts. Forward Smash is a Radiation Grenade that sticks to the enemy or ground; depending on how long you hold the smash, he could throw it really close or really far. Up Smash is a regular Frag Grenade you throw straight up; if you don't charge it, you get time to jump and catch it to throw it somewhere else.
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UltimateFlame13 7 years ago#10
From: elheber | #009
oh yeah I forgot about that. So yeah, it would just be rad nades in my set up then.
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Assistant treasurer Bill Shorten closed out last week's Australian Securitisation Forum conference in Sydney promising an expectant audience that the industry's good work would soon be rewarded.
It was the strongest hint yet, if one was needed, that the Treasury would soon write another large cheque to the Australian Office of Financial Management, instructing them to buy more RMBS from the nation's smaller lenders.
The post-conference beer could then be savoured in the comfort that no matter what turbulence 2011 would bring, securitisation would have the state's backing.
Since late 2008, the AOFM has invested in $12 billion of RMBS issued by 18 lenders ranging from Suncorp Metway to Police & Nurses Building Society, supporting almost $26 billion of mortgage lending.
The investments were always designed to be a temporary measure but the need to demonstrate support of smaller lenders in this environment of hostility towards the major banks will ensure the programme is ramped up rather than phased out.
However one area of the local capital markets that shows signs of life without a cent of government support is the non-mortgage backed securitisation sector.
Issuance of asset-backed securities typically backed by auto and equipment leases is over $4 billion which is in range of 2007's record issuance of $5.1 billion. The amount almost rivals the issuance of domestic wholesale non financial corporate bonds.
Deals have been relatively frequent and Monday's launch of a $367 million auto loans issue by Lloyds International is the year's 11th transaction and its second of the year, compared to just seven in 2007.
Other issuers in 2010 include
Some companies such as pharmaceuticals firm
Investor interest has also been strong with talk of superannuation fund involvement in the lower rated tranches, something that has been talked about as the answer to facilitating RMBS issuance.
The government hasn't been required to coax investment into asset backed securities. Buyers, including bank balance sheets favour asset-backed bonds because they pay a high margin of around 150 basis points. The assets have historically performed well and buyers get their money back sooner because asset loans are typically shorter.
Non-mortgage securitisation is also strong in most the parts of the world. In the US where mortgage-backed bond issuance has halted for several years, non mortgage backed securitisation has recovered to almost 70 per cent of its pre-crisis issuance levels. Firms such as Ford and Toyota have also turned to used securitisation for the first time in 2010 as a cost effective form of funding away from bank financing.
In Australia, this form of financing is slowly emerging as a genuine alternative to smaller providers of asset and equipment finance in an area where a niche has been left open by the major banks.
The rhetoric from the industry is that non mortgage backed securitisation is set to grow in 2011 and will get more attention from the industry body as a means of extending credit towards more parts of the local economy.
Westpac Banking Corporation also referenced the need to promote securitisation of non mortgage assets in its submission to the Senate Banking Enquiry. The lender called for regulators to allow the use of master trusts, or special purpose vehicles to facilitate the securitisation of short term receivables such credit card loans.
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The whole show was awkward and adorable as fans tried to make it into the center row for a better look and record store employees told them to stay in the aisles. If you managed to break your gaze from the stage, you'd find William H. Macy, hidden toward the back of the room, bopping his head to the beats. Ben played his heart out and made chit chat about quitting smoking that week so he could afford life insurance for his children as he fiddled with the microphone saying, "Now that I don't smoke I have nervous tics like I mess around with mic stands."
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Bo Hill made the dumbest play ever by a coach tonight.
Seattle was within 7 with 5 minutes to go, Rip Hamilton was wide open for a three in the corner, and He actually STEPPED ON TO THE FLOOR to yell in Rip's ear on the shot. Rip missed.
The penalty? Essentially a goaltending call. By rule coach interference causes the shot to count no matter what, PLUS a technical foul is assessed.
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|From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
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Two hours ago, Marijn wrote: > Hi, > > for/hash is giving me a syntax-error, but the error is in > macro-expanded code which is not shown by default and which is also > seemingly inaccessible via the macro-stepper. The for/hash > expression works outside my macro, so I guess it's my fault, but it > would help if the syntax-error could be a bit more informative. The > code: [...] 1. The problem is not `for/hash' -- it's in your macro. You can see that by replacing it, for example, with `let*' and the error changes accordingly. 2. Minimizing the code in obvious ways got me down to this macro soup which fails in the same way: (define-syntax dependent-boxes (syntax-rules () ((_ ((_variable_ . _rule_) ...)) (let () (define-syntax with-variables (syntax-rules (_variable_ ...) [(_ (a (... ...))) ((with-variables a) (... ...))] [(_ _variable_) (list '_variable_)] ... [(_ non-variable) non-variable])) (define-syntax rule-with-variables (syntax-rules () [(_ (rule)) (lambda () (with-variables rule))])) (list (rule-with-variables _rule_) ...))))) (dependent-boxes ((profit (let* ((y 1)) 2)))) Looks like the macro stepper does not step through local macros (at least not in this case), but it did the first step of expanding the `dependent-boxes' macro. 3. This leads to a smaller code that fails the same. (let () (define-syntax with-variables (syntax-rules (profit) ((_ (a ...)) ((with-variables a) ...)) ((_ profit) (list 'profit)) ((_ non-variable) non-variable))) (define-syntax rule-with-variables (syntax-rules () ((_ (rule)) (lambda () (with-variables rule))))) (list (rule-with-variables ((let* ((y 1)) 2))))) 4. It's now easy to continue reducing it to the core of the problem: (define-syntax with-variables (syntax-rules () ((_ (a ...)) ((with-variables a) ...)) ((_ a) a))) (with-variables (let* ((y 1)) 2)) Looks like you're doing a code walk (which is what makes me think that this is too complex for whatever it is you're trying to do), and treat some names in a special way. The problem is that ((with-variables a) ...) is creating a function application so the error is the same as just entering `let*' to get its value -- and the only error that it can throw at this point is a "bad syntax" with the whole expression, which is just `let*'. 5. And BTW, the reason it doesn't work is that the first expansion gets to ((with-variables let*) (with-variables ((y 1))) (with-variables 2)) and this form is not a macro -- so it's expanded as a function call, (#%app ...same...) and the rest is obvious. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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They pour their hearts into each and every animal they find and show these poor babies love and what it feels like to have a safe place.
This organization is fantastic! We adopted a pup (Toby/now Buddy) from them in April when he was about 8-9 weeks old. He came to us healthy and well-taken care of, as well as chipped and neutered. I know he was in excellent health because I took him to my vet, immediately (just a habit of mine). I already had 3 cats and 2 dogs so I did not HAVE to get another! I CHOSE to get Buddy from OKSAD because of it's great reputation (multiple family members have adopted from them). The length of the form and the scrutiny of the questions made me nervous about "passing muster"; however, I took no offense because they want their dogs to be well-taken care of and well-loved for the rest of their lives!! Thankfully, OKSAD gave us custody of this vibrant, bright-eyed sweetheart and he has changed the lives of my husband and me!! Rest assured, my future dogs will all come from this wonderful organization I KNOW I can trust! I have no doubt every dollar raised is used for the rescue and care of these precious souls--I wish I had a million dollars to give them!
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An elderly woman was trapped in an elevator for an entire day at a nursing home in Mississauga, Ontario. To make matters worse, the ordeal occurred on Christmas Eve.
According to Yahoo News, the 87-year-old woman spent more than 29 hours in the elevator at Malton Village Long Term Care Center. She was trapped from sometime in the evening on December 23 until 2 am on Christmas morning.
Emil Kolb, the chair of the Region of Peel, said:
"We consider this an extremely serious failure… No resident or family should ever have to experience such an event again… The Region of Peel takes responsibility for the care and safety of the residents of our long-term care centers very seriously. We have apologized to the resident and her family for this gap in our duty."
CNews reports that the 87-year-old woman was dropped off at the nursing home on December 23, but the woman never made it to her floor. Instead, she got stuck in the elevator.
The family thought that the woman was safe at the nursing home, and the staff mistakenly thought that the woman was still with her family. When the nursing home staff noticed that the woman still hadn't returned the following day (even though she was already at the nursing home), they called the family to confirm the woman's whereabouts.
The nursing home was searched by the staff, and then by police, once it was confirmed that the woman was missing. The staff eventually checked the elevators, which were shut down on December 24 because they were malfunctioning because it was "the only place left to search."
Kolb said that there was an ongoing investigation into how the woman slipped through the cracks at the nursing home.
Kolb said:
"We believe she became trapped in the elevator between floors on her way to her room and was unable to obtain assistance for the next 24 hours. This is one of the key areas of focus in our investigations. How could that happen?"
The woman was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. She was then returned to the nursing home where she was, presumably, escorted to her room by a member of the nursing home staff.