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Assuming it's Legacy, you have access to the posts:
Cloudpost, Glimmerpost, Vesuva, Thespian's Stage
You could also use the Sol lands
Ancient Tomb & City of Traitors

In Modern you have:
Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant, Urza's Tower

If you're playing Vintage:
Mishra's Workshop, Library of Alexandria

In EDH you can't use lands that have mana symbols outside of your general's color identity, so you'll see some creative lands there.
Of course there's always Desert, High Market, Phyrexia's Core and all sorts of utility lands. 

or in a budget situation perhaps Crystal Vein?

Just watch out for Price of Progress.

I've done the same thing.  I actually opened an envelope in front of the USPS worker, crumpled up a brochure and sealed it back to make it thick enough for parcel post.  I got some weird looks, but saved a little bit on postage. 

Something else to keep in mind, if youre using PWEs, then your envelopes are going to go through this.  And it doesn't see to matter if you mark it non-machinable.  Look at that guy loading the machine, he doesn't care.  And this is a video from the company that makes the machines and is trying to sell them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxtkYBN5kJg

The same thing is still happening with the FTV 20 cards.  This may or may not be an easy fix, but these guys do a great job of keeping things running and up to date.  I'm sure it will be fixed as soon as they are aware of it, and have time to update. 

Also keep in mind that all the pricing data is pulled from TCG player, so they have to use TCG player's existing API to get this data.  I assume that something is just different about these sets, or possibly the way they were imported.  TCG player may use a different name for the set since both have a : in the name, and in general special characters can be obnoxious in code.

Someone could create CSV files for each deck, then you could just use Import > CSV file.  That's something that could be it's own forum topic.

You could also import a text list using the card lists that you can download from here:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/a … ature/269c

(next to the deck name is a symbol that looks like an O with a line through it, that's a link to download the card list for that deck) 

Just make sure if you do it that way to set your default values to Commander 2013

I do the same thing.  Usually I keep it at 60 cards as I'm building though, and put the things I'm considering on the sideboard. It makes it easier for me to cut it down by moving one thing in that's superior to something that's in the deck, and moving that thing out (to the sideboard).  This way I can cut cards without forgetting about them completely until I actually start sleeving cards up.  At that point I start deleting the ones I don't want to acquire or turned out to be sub-par.

Yeah, there is a lot of synergy for this theme available, just be careful about putting too many cards that cost too much mana into your deck.  The big mana spells that don't do anything on their own (like Death's Presence) can be a real weak point for the deck if you rely on them too much.  Also if you play a card like Perilous Forays, be careful not to over extend.  If you take all of the land out of your deck and someone casts Armageddon, you could be screwed.  That doesn't mean you can't use it and choose not to find a basic land though if you're hard up for a sacrifice outlet.

edit: I'm going to add one more.  This is one I've had my eye on recently as it's a 1 drop sac outlet that also gives it's self +1/+1 counters. Carrion Feeder

There's an extensive article on tempo in an aggro deck here:  https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/ … academy/12

It starts really basic, but it covers a lot by the end.

I have nothing against Canadians, but I have to be a bit picky about trades to Canada.  Generally if I'm trading to Canada I like for the trade to be $10-20.  Under $10 and it's not worth it to send, over $20 and you may have to pay import/customs fees or taxes.  (There's some wiggle room on the 'value' here since it all depends on what's on the Customs form, i.e. TCG Low value could be used).  If it's more than a couple of cards it's going to cost me $6 to ship, but I don't want to trade down a $15 card for a pile of $1 cards either.  Ideally I can do small stuff for small stuff as long as it's cheaper to trade than it is to buy the things. 

There's a trade on my completed list called "Small Trade to Canada", which is a good example, a bunch of small low value cards that I don't think I'll ever use for a bunch of small low value cards that I can put in decks.  I think it cost me $5-$6 to ship, but the total value was $12, and the cost to buy the things using the optimize tool on TCG Player was around $10.  Still not a major savings over just buying the cards, but what I was giving up was not useful to me at all, and the person I was trading with was trying to complete sets.

So yeah, I'll trade to Canada, but I may be more picky about it.

If the idea is to get to a negative life total, or near death experience, then phyrexian mana is your friend.  I suggest making your deck smaller with Gitaxian Probe.  The information it gives you is also worth the two life.  In addition, other threats that let you channel out life at will include Moltensteel Dragon, Hex Parasite  and Immolating Souleater. 

You may also want to consider protecting your creatures with shroud or giving them haste.  Lightning Greaves and Hall of the Bandit Lord come to mind.  Note that you cannot pay the three life if you don't have it, even if you have a Platinum Angel on the field, but it can help you reduce your life quickly to be more aggressive.

Also be careful with Angel's Grace.  It doesn't reset you to one, it just prevents you from dying to damage, or losing that turn.  You can still go negative and lose on your end step if you lose life or pay life.

If you want to make it more competitive and aggressive there are builds that use Thoughtseize Plunge Into Darkness, Spoils of the Vault and Ad Nauseam (This is where that Angel's Grace thing comes into play.  You can go negative with Ad Nauseam and keep going, you don't lose the game until the spell finishes resolving and state based effects are checked.  If you Angel's Grace first, let it resolve then cast Ad Nauseam you can go negative, and assuming you can win that turn you're good, but if you end the turn you lose). If you want to splash red you can use Fling to kill and avoid the whole combat step thing.  Also Rite of Consumption is sort of like fling but can put you back to the positive on life. 

With the Ad Nauseam // Angel's Grace combo you can can dig until you are far into the negative, cast a Death's Shadow and it will actually be LARGER than 13/13 because your negative life total adds to it's power.  The problem then is just giving it haste, or flinging it.  The Thoughtseize and Gitaxian Probe make sure you know when to combo out.  This requires nine mana though to do it all on one turn (4BBBBW), so it would be easier to just use it as a draw engine, and not a massive combo machine.

I put my EDH decks in the Card Way boxes, but it's a tight fit for some of them.  Those boxes have an inner dimension of 2 1/8 inches (depth) by 2 3/4 (width).  I would say that 2 1/4" depth would probably fit most single sleeved decks.  Not sure about double sleeved.  I've only double sleeved entire 60 card decks or individual rares in EDH decks.

Rather than buying a mapped box, consider buying a 'repacked' box.  This way people still have cards they can take home or add to their collection.  I've seen these on e-bay, a store opens a bunch of packs pulls cards they need, and then sells the rest of the box at about half the price.   You won't have any bombs in the box, but for playing limited it could work. 

This is the type of thing I'm talking about.  I've never bought one, but it seems like the most honest way to do something like this.  Also might be good for iron man MTG.

A store local to me also does junk repacks where they draft from junk rares and cards that no one wants to buy as singles.  They are setup similar to packs.  Everyone gets a mystery pack of junk cards and drafts from that.  They charge $7 and call it 'cheapo drafts'.  From their website "Re-Constructed booster packs from a huge range of sets means you never know what you'll get. A very casual draft for super cheap! If you've never seen the cards, they're new to you!"