He finishes with this sentence: "Take that as an indication when you're in doubt, you're probably better off adding that extra land instead of that extra spell to your deck." I'm going to continue to advocate for 40 lands, because I feel being relevant in the game and having a deck which reliably casts its spells is superior to the alternative
Faeburrow Elder not only taps for 1 mana of each color among permanents you control, but it also grows larger with every color represented, so its both a ramp engine and a solid body
(8/1/2008) As the token is created, it checks the printed values of the creature it's copying or, if that creature is itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it
8) Misdirection The weaker of the two free counterspells on this list, Misdirection has seen more play in Type 1 than it ever did in Type 2, Block, or Extended