Legal Combo in Modern? I came across a great milling combo, however before I invest in the deck, I wanted to make sure it's legal. A rep at my LGS thinks not, but I wanted a 2nd (and more) opinion.   Turn #1: Land + 1 generic 1 drop flyer. Turn #2: Land +  Turn #3: Land +  Turn #4: Land + Protection/Removal. Activate the DG's 1st ability via attack, Tome Scour, Thought Scour, etc. This will create an infinite milling loop and win by turn 4 if everything goes right. If opp has artifact removal, I can thrown in a Padeem or Orbs of Warding. Then even if opp has creature removal or board wipe, I'll have 4x each.   To simplify this inquiry, I have precisely, squarely, meticulously narrowed the specific questions that are the basis on my query...   1 - Will this combo work?  2 - Have you personally tried it and to what extent of success did you achieve?  3 - What modifications would you suggest?   Thank you.
Can I mill my opponent into defeat with Mindcrank and Duskmantle Guildmage? Okay the scenario I'm thinking of is as follows:   I control a ,  and 3 untapped lands (2 swamps, 1 Island to be perdantic). In my opponents turn he casts a burn spell to kill my duskmantle.   I activate his first ability in response.   The way I am hoping the following interactions will go is:   Duskmantles ability will hit the stack at the top and resolve The burn spell resolves dealing its damage to Duskmantle The burn spell card hits the graveyard and triggers the infinite loop for duskmantle and mindcrank killing my opponent Duskmantle perishes   Is this the way that the stack would pan out? Do I win in this situation regardless of the stack being correct or not above? (I am not fully familiar with how the stack really works in magic) You can see the cards from my deck .
Citations with no bibliography at the end How do you produce a document with citations (\citep, \citet) working properly in the paper but without a bibliography at the end?  I've come up with one solution that is bad because it breaks my makefile.  latex file.tex bibtex file # comment out \bibliography{} command latex file.tex   Similarly, is there a way to produce the bibliography with no accompanying text?  Again, I've come up with a solution: fill an otherwise blank .tex file with \nocite{} commands.  However, this is a pain because I have to keep two files synced by hand (and regular expressions to search for \citep{author1, author2} can be a huge pain when there are pagebreaks...). Finder search doesn't work properly after Yosemite update Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, search no longer works properly in Finder. Spotlight works fine but Finder search just gives me a blank window with a spinning ball.  I've tried reindexing and I've also tried deleting Spotlight's .plist file. I restart my MacBook Pro after doing either. Finder search will work for one or two queries and stop again. I don't know what else I can do. Where to start with Oracle? What TV movie had lost space cadets who piloted yellow tripod robots, and a squid bad guy? I'm trying to find a movie I watched on TV, probably in the 90s. I think it was a made-for-TV movie.  It was about a ship with an AI. The ship was crewed by young adults. I think they were cadets?   There was an accident (like a warp drive malfunction) and they end up in another part of space where they meet a female alien whose ship had been shot down.  I remember they had manned robots they would pilot and they took them to a planet to get upgraded and they are attacked by more manned robots. They had three legs and they were yellow, I think.  I also remember the baddie had a holo-projector or something like that which allowed him to change his appearance. He commanded a massive fleet and he worked for someone he spoke to in a video chat that looked like a squid. Would Beetee's electrocution plan work and kill the tributes in the lake? In , the second episode of the Hunger Games trilogy, one of the characters (Beetee) proposes a plan to kill some of the remaining tributes. He proposes wrapping a special wire that he has designed to withstand the vast energy of lightning around a tall tree and running it down to a salt water lake. Then when lightening strikes the tree (which it does predictably every twelve hours) anyone in the lake will be killed. (N.B. This is not Beetee's real plan, but it is the one he wants his allies to believe.)  I don't think his plan would work at all. Assuming that his wire can carry the enormous current delivered by a lightening strike (this is fiction after all) surely the current would short to ground through the salt water rather than taking a path through anyone standing or swimming in the water. The analogy I have in mind is that of birds standing untroubled on live electricity wires. They are unharmed because they do not provide a path to earth. But another analogy might be dropping a mains electric heater into a bath when you are in it. I think that kills you (though I'm not sure why.) opengl storing multiple indices into indices buffer Original sentence:     Prince Andrew, looking again at that genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing.    (War and Peace, Tolstoy, English translation)     In the sentence above, shouldn't the comma before laughing be omitted if this is about the participle clause denoting "an action that happens at the same time in the past"?  I mean it should be      Prince Andrew…shook his head laughing as a man…   Plus, shouldn't the verb laugh after a man be in the past tense in order to be in accordance (agreement) with shook his head?   You know, the whole sentence should be consistent…. How is Clan War Map position determined? I have a question.  I have been given this proof: "For any $n$ in the integers where $n&gt;2$, show there are at least $2$ elements in $U(n)$ that satisfy $x^2=1$."  I have gone through and actually proved this, (that the numbers are $1$ and $n-1$) but i didn't' know how to prove that $n-1$ is in fact in the set $U(n)$. Is it because two consecutive numbers are always relatively prime? How can I replace a relay with a MOSFET Transistor? I have this working         &ndash; Schematic created using   An Arduino commute both relays and a power adapter charge each battery at a time.  I would like to replace each relay by a MOSFET. How can I do that?  I think the solution bellow will not work because DRAIN is always connected to SOURCE and this will short circuit batteries. MOSFETS only isolate from SOURCE to DRAIN.  When the D9 is HIGH, D10 will be LOW so the power adapter will never be charging both batteries simultaneously.          Sorry for the messy schematic.  Thank you very much. Cauchy principle value of $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\sin(x)/(x-a)dx$ Google Maps Location History is showing an incorrect location I have a major problem that I hope someone can help with. On my Google Maps feature under my Location History it shows a location that I was never at at any point, but when my wife happened to see that location she doesn't believe me that the GPS could be wrong and pinpoint that location if I was never there.  I was first wondering myself how could that could be possible if I was never there or my phone was never at that location that was 35 miles away from me and second is there any way I could prove the GPS being wrong? Can I contact Google Maps and can they give an official printout of that certain day and every location I was? I really need to prove my honesty to her and hope there is a way. Calculating values of field based on two others using Field Calculator in ArcGIS Desktop? I need to combine two fields in an attribute table.  I want to do this using the field calculator.  What is the proper script to write to combine a field called "name" and "type", so that it produces one field with "name type"?  I'm using ArcGIS Desktop 10.0. Draw Vertices of Regular Polygon I am trying to draw just the nodes (no sides) at the vertices of a regular hexagon.  should be easily modified to accomplish what I want, but I am such a novice that I have difficulty understanding the example. Ideally, each vertex would be a separate named node so that I can easily draw edges between them (I will be making several different graphs using these same nodes). Daily Ubuntu base update I am getting Ubuntu base update almost every day. This seems strange to me. What am I missing?   (I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) -ing vs -in' ending I wonder if the &quot;g&quot; in the -ing forms is pronounced. When I hear it it seems as if it's not pronounced sometimes or just slightly, though sometimes I've been told that I should pronounce &quot;g&quot; for example in &quot;meeting&quot; just to avoid saying &quot;mitten&quot;. So how should I pronounce &quot;-ing&quot;? Sometimes -ing is written in an informal way as -in' such as:  taking takin'  Is the letter &quot;g&quot; in each case pronounced differently? Why can I not access a file named `-` when quoting? I have a file called -.  I want to display its contents.  One way is to do  cat ./-   since cat - reads from standard input. However, why are cat "-" and cat '-' also interpreted by the shell as cat -? How to sanity check a date in Java Is there a term for words that when reversed, form other words? I'm aware of what a palindrome is. What do you call words that, when reversed, form other words, such as ton (not) and part (trap)? Basis of the null space Find the basis of the null space for the matrix  $$D = \begin{bmatrix}0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\\0 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 0\\1 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\\1 &amp;1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\end{bmatrix}.$$  I computed the solution by letting eigenvectors $(x,y,z,w)$ such that $y+z=0,x+y=0$, and I got a basis vector $\{(1,-1,1,0), (0,0,0,1)\}$ . But from one textbook  I have found the solution as $\{(1,0,0,0),(0,0,1,1)\}$. May I made a mistake? Thanks!