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Great changes.  Any chance you'll be offering an "Oversized Commander" option for the C14 walkers, like you have for C13?  Right now I have my oversized C14 cards listed as promo & foil, but that's a band-aid solution.

So many of the little stores are on tcgplayer that it almost doesn't make sense to look for them individually.  The only exception for me is I've found great prices on sealed product, boxes in particular, at miniaturemarket.  They're usually $80-$100 for recent sets and pre-orders, and they offer free shipping on orders over $99, so it is pretty easy to throw something else in.

I play a fair bit on MTGO, so http://www.magicev.com/ is handy.  For a quick printable price guide, dawnglare is good.  Metamox is a good price & staple reference as well.  If I want to watch some pro-level magic, mtgcoverage.com has everything.

To analyze drafts or brews, I use deckstats because it has useful statistics. I like it better than tappedout or even deckbox, though I put my finished brews up here to see what I need to complete them! It also links to edhrec.com, which is amazing for EDH. 

The once or twice a year I go to a GP or PTQ, I use http://metadeck.me/ to proxy up a gauntlet to test my deck against.  You can get 12 decks on the same proxy and it'll populate the decks for you, pretty handy.

If you're a collector, mtgcb shows you how far you are to collecting each set.

Edit: Erp, looks like miniature market was already on the list!

POST PRICING UPDATE

Lim-Dûl's High Guard $5.00

Amazon prices are a disaster, I'm going to suspend all non-accepted trades and go inactive until something more reliable can be arranged.  Mtgprice.com also offers an API which may be somewhat better just amazon prices.  Any chance you could try something like that out?

FML, I'm moving back.  Who needs a job anyway?

Wow, congrats on Bob!  That more than pays for the draft!

This is a good rule of thumb, and probably perfect for this situation.  If you want packs to match sealed packs rarity-wise, mythics should be replace rares about 1/8th of the time.  The exact distribution changes very slightly from set to set, but it is always very close to 1/8.*

Since timeshifted stuff is all from earlier sets, any way you can assign each timeshifted card the rarity from its first printing?  If not, it may be better to exclude timeshifted cards entirely than slot them all as rare. 

I'd suggest excluding any card worth more than $X, so your beta timewalk doesn't get randomly picked.  It'd make it kind of like a reject rare draft (which is quite fun actually). 

One other suggestion, could the app work off of tradelists rather than inventory?  That way you don't have to draft something from an existing deck, and we know it is all stuff we're happy to part with. 

*  Just FYI, you can figure out the exact proportion in a set like this.  Count all the rares in a set, e.g. 53 in GTC.  Count all the mythics, e.g. 15 in GTC.  Double all the rares since they get printed twice on a sheet, e.g. 106 in GTC.  Add rares & mythics & divide by mythics, e.g. 15/(15+106) = 12.39% of the rare slots with have a mythic in GTC.  12.39% is very close to 12.5% of 1/8.  DGM is slightly different because each sheet have shock lands too, but otherwise the math works for any set.

Massdrop.com sells sleeves periodically, if you don't need the sleeves right now it may be worth waiting.  Voting is up now on a few ideas.

* https://www.massdrop.com/vote/deck-protectors--sleeves
* https://www.massdrop.com/vote/kmc-sleeves

They did dragonshield 100-packs for $7 before, so they can get good deals. 

If you can't wait, check out this site: http://www.potomacdist.com/list.asp?code=4040 - box of matte black KMC sleeves for $54 (that's ten packs of 80 count sleeves) or a pack of 80 sleeves for $9.  Not a terrible price.

I'd kick in for two or three.

Creature enchantments are typically a bad idea because they're an easy way to get 2-for-1'd unless the creature has hexproof.  But it has been that way forever, and this change doesn't really except make it somewhat harder to kill legendary targets.  WoTC surely didn't intend this to improve Geist, though that's a clear side effect. 

I'm fairly confident this change is, in part, because WoTC thought the current rule was unintuitive (why should your clone kill my Ruric Thar?).  I'm speculating this change anticipates a legendary-themed block, because otherwise why the change now rather than 2 years ago or 2 years from now? 

To me, Renounce seems like a great way to get rid of voltron generals, where they often hit the board early, maybe after a mana dork, and have some kind of protection.  Sure you can play around it by ensuring you've got another multicolored creature on the board, but it is hard to play around a single card in EDH. 

Renounce also gets around Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Whispersilk Cloak, and the many variants that everyone slaps on generals, which is nice.  You can't rely on it, since it is a 1-of, but I think it is more useufl now that clone effects don't work anymore, so we're left with just Wraths.

Yes, except you don't need to use all the loyalty counters, you can just kill them off at any point you've got a duplicate.  I think this is especially relevant for planeswalkers with high starting loyalty - like Karn Liberated in modern tron decks.

Should note that none of this goes into effect until M14 is released in mid/late July.  Between now and then, we've got modern masters.

May also be worth picking up some of the better legendary creatures, as Sigarda/Thrun may see even more eternal or EDH play, though goodness knows Geist is already everywhere.