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If I remember correctly, a sleeved 100 card deck fits perfectly in one of these:

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Without going too deep into the technical aspect of it, sites are often charged for server usage and bandwidth. Every feature has to be looked at through the lens of "is this feature's cost worth the benefit it will provide?". Without knowing the cost to sebi and the rest of the dev team, we can't say whether the benefit was worth it. I'd rather they devote energy to the new Trading Opportunities page than try to speed up a bit of obsolete code.

First of all, man cheers up. You don't need rares or mythics or planeswalkers to win games.

You do, however, need both a plan, and a way to achieve that plan. If we go ahead with the "I want to mill people out and play blue/black cards" plan, here's what I see in your inventory that can accomplish that:

4x Balustrade Spy
1x Breaking // Entering
2x Chronic Flooding
1x Coerced Confession
1x Consuming Aberration
2x Crosstown Courier
4x Doorkeeper
1x Duskmantle Guildmage
1x Jace's Mindseeker
1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
1x Paranoid Delusions
3x Pilfered Plans
1x Psychic Strike
2x Tome Scour

The thing to remember about mill is that it's a worse version of burn. While burn tries to do 20 damage as fast as possible, you're basically trying to do 53 (since your opponent starts with 7 cards in hand). Picture a deck with all Lightning Bolts vs a deck with all Tome Scours. The burn player only has to cast 7 spells, while the mill player has to cast 10-11 and then wait for the opponent's next draw step. "If I mill my opponent's bomb, though,", you say, "then I have more time!" True, but you're just as likely to mill away your opponent's five irrelevant spells and cause them to draw their bomb right away instead of five turns later, and if that happens you have even less time.

Because that'll take longer, you also need some way to stay alive while you're milling your opponent. That's where the controlling aspects come in, things that disrupt your opponent's plan and prevent you from dying.

1x Aetherize
3x Cancel
3x Claustrophobia
1x Dimir Charm
3x Disperse
1x Duress
2x Far // Away
2x Killing Glare
1x Rapid Hybridization
4x Mind Rot
1x Ultimate Price
4x Warped Physique

For this kind of strategy, I'd say anything that doesn't either mill your opponent or disrupt them and keep you alive is a wasted card. That means no Nefarox, no Notion Thief, and if you're not willing to improve your mana base, definitely no splashing red.

Before you add any card, you should be asking yourself questions like:

- How does this card advance my plan?
- Is this a good card by itself?
- How well does this card work with the rest of my deck?

Take Doorkeeper. For 2U, you get to mill your opponent for only one card. "But", you say, "if I have lots of walls out, I can mill them for way more than 1!" Yeah, that's true, but you'd need to have 5 walls in play just to get a more expensive version of Tome Scour. That doesn't seem very good, especially since while you're trying to do this your opponent is beating you with creatures and all you have to keep yourself alive is a bunch of walls.

If you're willing to accept the fact that this deck won't be very good and won't win very often, then start by picking your favourite 35 of the cards above and 25 lands (since you've got a lot of expensive spells). If you want a better mill plan, you'll have to expand out into big repeatable mill effects, like Mind Grind and Jace, Memory Adept.

Given the condition it's in (SP), I'm looking for $500 or best offer. Scans coming soon.

I'm interested in a lot of that stuff, add it to your inventory so we can trade.

Canadian here.

Does a lot of this have to do with mistrust, not of your trading partner, but of the USPS? I drop my envelopes right at the post office to make sure all of the postage is correct, and to date I've never had an envelope go missing to anywhere in the world, including Europe and Australia. But in receiving envelopes, I've seen a huge variety of postages (between $1.10 and $6.50 for what appears to be the same thing), and from reading the forums here the belief that the package will be lost in transit is way higher.

Is this a "government can't do anything right" thing?

Horizon Canopy - It's a dual land, which is always in demand, but the fact that it "cycles" (i.e. draws you a card in exchange for itself) is very powerful. When you need a land in the early game, that's what it is; when you top-deck it later in the game or don't need any more lands, you get an extra card draw. The fact that white and green don't get very many other options for card draw means that this card allows WG decks to have a bit more reach than they would otherwise.

Rishadan Port - There's a reason you see this card played primarily in decks that only need 1 or 2 lands in play, and often in combination with Wasteland (particularly Goblins). Being able to lock down your opponent's lands is a huge tempo play, especially in Legacy where your opponent may only need a few lands in play. In formats where the difference between one land and two lands is large, Port makes a really big difference.

Life from the Loam - Any deck that either wants spare cards in hand (Seismic Assault), wants cards in the Graveyard (Re-animator, Gifts, etc)., or any combination of the two gets a huge boost from this card. You can lock your opponent out with Raven's Crime and other spells with retrace, continually destroy lands with Tectonic Edge while invalidating your opponent's land destruction back, and all kinds of crazy useful things.

Dark Confidant - Drawing two cards every turn while your opponent draws one is borderline cheating. It attacks for two, and if your deck only has spells with casting cost 1 or 2, the life loss is negligible compared to the huge advantage you gain.

Daybreak Coronet - By far the best Aura to slap on your hexproof creature, and the GW Auras deck is really popular right now thanks to Reid Duke's performance at Worlds. Also hasn't been reprinted and it was originally in a very under-drafted set.

To be honest, I don't think someone's ability to trade well has anything to do with their age. I've had awful experiences with people in their 30's, and great trades with people under 18 (hell, under 14).

Requiring parental permission won't help, as people will just lie about their age like they do on every other site, and their age will only become relevant if you actually file for mail fraud, and I've never heard of anything coming of that anyways.

I think it's a percentage of the sale price, usually only like $2-$3 at most. Paypal makes their money on quantity of transactions rather than size.

Despite what posters on this forum will have you believe, don't feel obligated to race to the bottom with your prices. Everyone expects to buy cards at buylist prices and sell at full retail, and I find anyone with that attitude will cause more headaches than someone who just wants cards to play with.