MTG Salvation

Have you tried Bloodfire Colossus? It's a sweeper that some of your creatures will survive, and the 6 points of damage to your opponents is a nice bonus. Plus it can let you go in for a big alpha strike if you pop it with Vigor and a few other creatures in play.

I don't really like Dragon Mage very much since it fills up your opponent's hands. I would replace it with Knollspine Dragon.

Thought of a few more things while I was at work today:

Auratouched Mage

Flickerform

The easiest way for opponents to get rid of Uril is with Wrath effects. Flickerform lets him dodge mass removal while not losing any of his Auras. It's also a really fun combo with Auratouched Mage.

Winds of Rath

It's basically a 5 mana Plague Wind in this deck

Sterling Grove
Privileged Position

Protection for your Auras

Troll Ascetic
Silhana Ledgewalker

Mini Urils

Gempalm Strider
Hunting Triad
Elvish Promenade
Tribal Forcemage

These cards should all be pretty cheap, and fit your theme of putting out a bunch of Elves and pumping them up.

Also, I would cut down to 1 or 2 Pendelhaven. It's a nice effect to have, but it's not critical to your deck. Having 3 increases the chances that you'll have one stuck in your hand.

As far as I understand it, this strain of swine flu responds to antibiotics. I think the fear is that it will merge with another flu strain and form a new virus that is immune to most antibiotics.

Are you sure Predatory Advantage makes green creatures and not green and red ones? Seems like it would make multicolored tokens since this is the multicolor set.

If he was bigger or cheaper he would be interesting, but I just don't see when I would want this guy over Sarkhan Vol.

Saproling Symbiosis would be nice, and you can never go wrong with Coat of Arms. Scatter the Seeds is really good, you can play it for free more often than you'd think.

That Merfolk deck looks like fun but I think you should focus more on getting the combo out. Here is how I would change it:

Combo searchers

+4 Brainstorm
+4 Impulse
+4 Merfolk Looter

Combo protectors

+4 Counterspell
+4 Hindering Light

-2 To Arms!
-4 Merrow Commerce
-3 Jace Beleren
-4 Broken Ambitions
-3 Judge of Currents
-4 Merrow Reejerey

Now you have a better chance of finding the combo and keeping the individual pieces out long enough to get it running. You've got the mill combo in there, plus the backup plan of infinite Merfolk with Mothdust Changeling + Intruder Alarm + Stonybrook Schoolmaster.

Also, you really need to take out the Shelldock Isles. You're going to mill the entire deck at once, so you'll never need the ability.

I just started on Bleach after finishing up Yu Yu Hakusho. So far I would say that Bleach has been decent but not great. The premise of the show is interesting and the action is pretty good, but the main characters seem kind of shallow so far (I'm about 20 episodes in). Also, the story is really going all over the place ever since the setting changed to Soul Society and there are too many new characters coming out of nowhere.

I didn't see Yu Yu Hakusho anywhere, that's a pretty good one. I'd say it's really good up until the end of the Dark Tournament. After that everything seemed kind of rushed to me. The best thing about the show is the characters, so if you don't like them after the first few episodes you're probably not going to like the rest of the show.

This probably seems like a strange question, but does anyone know of a good FREE alarm clock program for Windows? I found a bunch for Macs (they get all of the cool apps :-/)

All I want is a program that can wake my computer up from sleep mode and plays mp3s. I'd also like if they alarm had a gradual wake feature, where the volume starts of low and gradually goes up to full volume. Anyone know of a program like this?

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It basically boils down to this: no, they don't.

I think he was being sarcastic.

Prop 8 isn't a done deal yet. According to the official California state results website, it's 51.9% "yes" and 48.1% "no" with 79% of precincts reporting. It was closer to 53% a little while ago, so the "no" vote seems to be catching up a little.