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Very smart of you to tailor the process to the limitations of the tool, instead of erroneously assuming you can get 100% accuracy out of it!

It seems like it was a little more accurate this time, I only saw two of our matches that it got wrong.

All three cards in each winning deck are banned for future rounds!

This is incorrect. If either player plays Black Lotus, the other player can win in response (or play Hushbringer and lock out the other player in response), so neither player does anything and both games are draws.

This is not correct. If the player with the Oracle waits, then if the player with the Griffin ever casts it, the player with the Oracle can then win (waiting until next phase) since Force can no longer be cast. So neither player does anything - both games should be draws.

Oh wait, just kidding, this is the Pact deck, not the Leyline deck. Your evaluation was correct.

This is not correct. In the mirror, if either player casts their Lotus, the other player can respond by casting theirs with flash thanks to the Leyline, and win the game. So neither player will do anything and both games are a draw.

I think on the whole it is very inaccurate - it got wrong 7/12 of the matchups it thought my deck lost 0-2, and I think also all of the ones it thought were draws should actually have been 0-2s.

It's a tough problem, I would have been surprised and impressed if it had worked automatically!

In the match against 1vorytower, the Balance player should win both games. Even if 1vorytower goes first, on the Balance player's first turn, 1vorytower is forced to discard their entire hand (and sacrifice their land for good measure).

In the match against skis-n-reads, on the play the Balance player should achieve a draw. Mental Misstep can counter The Rack, but skis-n-reads is forced to discard their entire hand.

In the matches against jslandau.cc, nicholaslynn, and montyburns77993, each player should win the game that they are on the play. Balance on turn 1 forces the opponent to discard their entire hand.

In the match against proptermalone, each player should win the game they are on the play. A turn 1 Balance makes proptermalone discard his entire hand.

In the match against rivertam, each player should win in the game they are on the play. On the play, Balance makes rivertam discard her entire hand, and she cannot counter it with Pact of Negation because if she does, she loses on her upkeep.

I ran one of these for college friends over email back in 2002 so I'm representing the old meta.

I still remember in a later round someone submitted City of Traitors, Mana Crypt, Phyrexian Processor, and I filled 3 pages of notebook paper with arithmetic calculating the matchup results.

If it is optimal for your deck to play second, then in the game where it plays first, it will pass its first turn without doing anything.

Black Lotus
Balance
The Rack

Thank you, Councilwoman.

So if I see a ICE or Border Patrol agent violating this ordinance, should I call 911 and request a police officer to the scene?

In the event the dispatcher is unwilling to send a police officer, or the officer is unwilling to intervene, what should I do then?

Councilwoman, thank you for your efforts.

When I, as a citizen of St. Paul, see an ICE or Border Patrol agent violating this ordinance, what steps should I take?

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I read this one on the topic, that was very good, seems to have a broader perspective, and is very similarly titled (maybe even enough that you were thinking of it?) -

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Congratulations on the new book! It is small but I participated in the Indivisible protest at Lexington and West 7th on Saturday afternoon and waved a flag, alongside several hundred neighbors.

These articles suggest the most effective pain management solutions they found were

1) Lidocaine jelly (available over the counter, it looks like)
2) Prolonged immersion (1 hr+) in vegetable oil

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Seems like unfortunately it may take ~48 hours to resolve and the only thing to be done in the meantime is pain management, sorry :(

(I don't think it's a chemical burn per se, but the capsaicin interacting with the nerves.)

The McCollum staffers have answered the last 3 times I have called! I guess she does, after all, have many fewer constituents than the Senators. I try to always thank the staffer for working the phones. (I am usually also thanking Rep. McCollum.)

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