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Hey,
i have been really satisfied with your work until now (Maybe the desicison to ban the highlander mulligan was not so good, but that has do be discussed elsewhere), and now you have chosen to elect a new member to the council. Could you please give a reasoning, why you chose someone, who does not play our format on a regular basis and is working as a judge an therefor is bound to the officel wotc-policiy?

[Bayou 1 [ON] Wooded Foothills 1 Tropical Island 1 Scrubland 2 [ZEN] Forest (3) 3 [ZEN] Mountain (1) 1 [TE] Wasteland 1 [ZEN] Plains (1) 1 [RAV] Sacred Foundry 1 [WWK] Raging Ravine 1 [ZEN] Verdant Catacombs 1 [ZEN] Arid Mesa 1 [ON] Windswept Heath 1 [WWK] Stirring Wildwood 1 [DIS] Blood Crypt 1 [GP] Stomping Ground 1 Taiga 1 Badlands 1 Volcanic Island 1 [FUT] Grove of the Burnwillows 1 [DK] Maze of Ith 1 Tundra 1 [UL] Treetop Village 1 [RAV] Temple Garden 1 [ZEN] Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle 1 Plateau 1 [ZEN] Island (1a) 1 [ZEN] Scalding Tarn 1 [ON] Flooded Strand 1 Savannahcan't play more manlands, because of the needed mountain count and the speed. i play many utility lands, because i can tutor them up very easy and they never hurt me (7 lands are needed for scapeshift).// Creatures 1 [ZEN] Scute Mob floodprotection, good target for ranger 1 [UL] Mother of Runes 1 [VI] River Boa 1 [CS] Jotun Grunt 1 [WWK] Dragonmaster Outcast floodprotection, good target for ranger (this one can win games on its own) 1 [SHM] Vexing Shusher testing this 1 [ALA] Woolly Thoctar 1 [PS] Flametongue Kavu 1 [ALA] Rhox War Monk 1 [CFX] Noble Hierarch 1 [ROE] Beastbreaker of Bala Ged not sure here. 3 mana is much in the early game, but late he is good 1 [TSP] Scryb Ranger can untap a few creatures, fixes mana. have to see him with cobra once 1 [DIS] Trygon Predator 1 [ARB] Bloodbraid Elf 1 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage 1 [FD] Eternal Witness 1 [WWK] Stoneforge Mystic 1 [TO] Grim Lavamancer 1 [ALA] Rafiq of the Many 1 [M10] Birds of Paradise 1 [CFX] Knight of the Reliquary 1 [ALA] Sprouting Thrinax still testing 1 [ZEN] Kor Skyfisher 1 [SHM] Kitchen Finks 1 [FUT] Tarmogoyf 1 [ALA] Ranger of Eos 1 [CHK] Kami of Ancient Law is war priest of thune better? (reccuring nightmare) 1 [CHK] Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 [OD] Shadowmage Infiltrator testing 1 [ZEN] Lotus Cobra needs no test 1 [M11] Fauna Shaman needs no test 1 [LRW] Shriekmaw 1 [M10] Master of the Wild Hunt needs no test// Spells 1 [IN] Tribal Flames 1 [CHK] Sensei's Divining Top 1 [M10] Lightning Bolt 1 [RAV] Putrefy 1 [ALA] Relic of Progenitus creatures just weren't enough 1 [UL] Rancor 1 [ROE] Naturalize 1 [P3] Three Visits 1 [MOR] Scapeshift 1 [UL] Crop Rotation 1 [ST] Nature's Lore 1 [DS] Sword of Light and Shadow 1 [ALA] Oblivion Ring 1 [IA] Swords to Plowshares 1 [ALA] Sarkhan Vol 1 [ALA] Elspeth, Knight-Errant 1 [EX] Recurring Nightmare 1 [RAV] Lightning Helix 1 [FD] Magma Jet 1 [ALA] Ajani Vengeant 1 [LRW] Garruk Wildspeaker 1 [DS] Sword of Fire and Ice 1 [CFX] Path to Exile 1 [ZEN] Punishing Fire 1 [RAV] Farseek 1 [UL] Unearth 1 [ROE] Gideon Jura 1 [CHK] Gifts Ungiven 1 Demonic Tutor 1 [M11] Sword of Vengeance 1 Regrowth 1 [AP] Vindicateany ideas? i wonder if the sarkhan the mad is good enough.]

i love to play with scapshift and since loam is banned now, i searched for a new way to get card advantage for my naya deck. before the banning of loam the deck was guwr. the blue was in to tutor for scapeshift and to get the loam engine going. now i play all 5 colors and scapeshift still works. black gave me the best tutor and some awesome removal. if you play sacepshift you obviously have to play a certain number of mountains (i figured out that 11 is the right number). this only hurts the mana base a little bit, because of the 8 duals you can play, that are also mountains. you also have to play many lands, so that 7 lands can get onto the battlefield. to protect me from getting flooded, i play some creatures which benefit from those lands and some mana-hungry cards.

here is the list i will play, if i get cobra, master and fauna shaman:

// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)

// Lands
   1 [GP] Steam Vents
   1 [ZEN] Swamp (3a)
   1 Bayou
   1 [ON] Wooded Foothills
   1 Tropical Island
   1 Scrubland
   2 [ZEN] Forest (3)
   3 [ZEN] Mountain (1)
   1 [TE] Wasteland
   1 [ZEN] Plains (1)
   1 [RAV] Sacred Foundry
   1 [WWK] Raging Ravine
   1 [ZEN] Verdant Catacombs
   1 [ZEN] Arid Mesa
   1 [ON] Windswept Heath
   1 [WWK] Stirring Wildwood
   1 [DIS] Blood Crypt
   1 [GP] Stomping Ground
   1 Taiga
   1 Badlands
   1 Volcanic Island
   1 [FUT] Grove of the Burnwillows
   1 [DK] Maze of Ith
   1 Tundra
   1 [UL] Treetop Village
   1 [RAV] Temple Garden
   1 [ZEN] Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
   1 Plateau
   1 [ZEN] Island (1a)
   1 [ZEN] Scalding Tarn
   1 [ON] Flooded Strand
   1 Savannah

can't play more manlands, because of the needed mountain count and the speed. i play many utility lands, because i can tutor them up very easy and they never hurt me (7 lands are needed for scapeshift).

// Creatures
   1 [ZEN] Scute Mob                  floodprotection, good target for ranger
   1 [UL] Mother of Runes      
   1 [VI] River Boa              
   1 [CS] Jotun Grunt            
   1 [WWK] Dragonmaster Outcast            floodprotection, good target for ranger (this one can win games on its own)
   1 [SHM] Vexing Shusher             testing this
   1 [ALA] Woolly Thoctar
   1 [PS] Flametongue Kavu
   1 [ALA] Rhox War Monk
   1 [CFX] Noble Hierarch
   1 [ROE] Beastbreaker of Bala Ged             not sure here. 3 mana is much in the early game, but late he is good
   1 [TSP] Scryb Ranger               can untap a few creatures, fixes mana. have to see him with cobra once
   1 [DIS] Trygon Predator
   1 [ARB] Bloodbraid Elf
   1 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
   1 [FD] Eternal Witness
   1 [WWK] Stoneforge Mystic
   1 [TO] Grim Lavamancer
   1 [ALA] Rafiq of the Many
   1 [M10] Birds of Paradise
   1 [CFX] Knight of the Reliquary
   1 [ALA] Sprouting Thrinax               still testing
   1 [ZEN] Kor Skyfisher  
   1 [SHM] Kitchen Finks
   1 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
   1 [ALA] Ranger of Eos
   1 [CHK] Kami of Ancient Law              is war priest of thune better? (reccuring nightmare)
   1 [CHK] Sakura-Tribe Elder
   1 [OD] Shadowmage Infiltrator            testing
   1 [ZEN] Lotus Cobra                needs no test
   1 [M11] Fauna Shaman               needs no test
   1 [LRW] Shriekmaw
   1 [M10] Master of the Wild Hunt          needs no test

// Spells
   1 [IN] Tribal Flames              
   1 [CHK] Sensei's Divining Top      
   1 [M10] Lightning Bolt
   1 [RAV] Putrefy
   1 [ALA] Relic of Progenitus              creatures just weren't enough
   1 [UL] Rancor
   1 [ROE] Naturalize
   1 [P3] Three Visits
   1 [MOR] Scapeshift
   1 [UL] Crop Rotation
   1 [ST] Nature's Lore
   1 [DS] Sword of Light and Shadow
   1 [ALA] Oblivion Ring
   1 [IA] Swords to Plowshares
   1 [ALA] Sarkhan Vol
   1 [ALA] Elspeth, Knight-Errant
   1 [EX] Recurring Nightmare
   1 [RAV] Lightning Helix
   1 [FD] Magma Jet
   1 [ALA] Ajani Vengeant
   1 [LRW] Garruk Wildspeaker
   1 [DS] Sword of Fire and Ice
   1 [CFX] Path to Exile
   1 [ZEN] Punishing Fire
   1 [RAV] Farseek
   1 [UL] Unearth
   1 [ROE] Gideon Jura
   1 [CHK] Gifts Ungiven
   1 Demonic Tutor
   1 [M11] Sword of Vengeance
   1 Regrowth
   1 [AP] Vindicate

any ideas? i wonder if the sarkhan the mad is good enough.