I just won another Eventide-Eventide-Eventide draft. Here is my deck.

8 Mountain
1 Riverfall Mimic
1 Shrewd Hatchling
1 Snakeform
8 Island
2 Slippery Bogle
2 Shorecrasher Mimic
1 Noggle Bandit
1 Crag Puca
3 Stream Hopper
2 Clout of the Dominus
1 Favor of the Overbeing
1 Inside Out
1 Duergar Cave-Guard
2 Puncture Blast
1 Cascade Bluffs
2 Flame Jab
1 Noggle Ransacker
1 Crackleburr

As usual, it was all about evasion. I had several turn 5 wins.

I've played 5 of these drafts so far. I've found that it really helps to be flexible. If one guild dries up, start picking up good cards from another guild. It's great if they happen to share a color. I won at least one game on the back of slippery bogle, shorecrasher mimic, and favor of the overbeing despite my deck being primarily blue/red.

I just won tournament 57869 on Magic Online. It was an Eventide-Eventide-Eventide draft.

Although I picked up a Deity of Scars as first pick, I ended up in UR. No one seems to want Streamhoppers and for good reason; 1/1 with jump usually sucks. However, when you enchant them with Clout of Dominus it is a completely different story. Turn 2 swing for 3. It's got shroud, do something about it! I easily had turn 5 wins unless my opponent had enough blockers. I only lost won game to an 1806 player running White Mimic.

1 Battlegate Mimic
3 Clout of the Dominus
1 Crag Puca
1 Double Cleave
1 Duergar Mine-Captain
1 Fire at Will
1 Flame Jab
1 Inside Out
1 Jawbone Skulkin
3 Noggle Bandit
1 Outrage Shaman
3 Puncture Blast
1 Riverfall Mimic
4 Stream Hopper
1 Thunderblust
1 Unwilling Recruit
16 Mountain

The trick to this deck was to  turn out stream hoppers and pump them. It would be better to have more Riverfall Mimics, but I was cut off on them. Noggle Bandit is great evasion. When equipped with a Clout of Dominus it is unstoppable. I think if I were to do this again I would cut out the Jawbone Skulkin and the Unwilling Recruit. Recruit is awesome, but it never did anything for me. The deck is too fast for skulkin to make a difference.

A typical game went like this:
Turn 1: Stream Hopper
Turn 2: Stream Hopper, Clout of Dominus, swing for 4
Turn 3: Noggle Bandit, swing for 4
Turn 4: Cloud on Bandit, swing for 8
Turn 5: Swing, blocked hopper, Puncture Bolt, win

Inside Out works great with the Mine-Captain. I would use the captain's abilty to pump it, stack damage, then cast Inside Out to save the captain and draw a card.

Be careful of White Mimic. They can play Double Cleave as well, which can mess up your math when staring down their WB mimics.

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§ Withdrawal from Iraq on a fixed timetable.

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§ Universal healthcare.

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§ An immigration system that treats humanely those attempting to enter the country and provides a path to citizenship for those already here.

§ Reform of the drug laws that incarcerate hundreds of thousands who need help, not jail.

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If you agree with these principles, sign the letter!

How do Republicans approach politics? Obama said it best:

They're very good at negative campaigning. They're not so good at governing.

Mary Winkler got less time in jail than a first time drug offender... she killed her husband!

Sentenced to three years in prison, she received probation for most of it, spending only 12 days in jail after her sentencing and two months in a mental health facility before being released.

They convicted her of manslaughter, which means she must have claimed to be temporarily insane. After they let her out they let her regain custody of her kids.

This is disturbing. A woman who is prone to bouts of insanity will have three girls living with her. What's going to happen when they become teenagers? I know teenage girls drive most parents crazy, but Mary Winkler gets the type of crazy that involves knifes.

In Communist China, the sign translates you! 

I wonder how McCain's supporters would like Obama running this ad? Too bad Obama has too much class; it would be hilarious.