Although, honestly, I’d guess that you’ll get more polite, relevant and accurate responses here than there. Many of us love to ramble on about magic, and will do so at the slightest provocation…
True. Although the previous round, I had beaten Brian “The Dragonmaster” Kibler, who is also not known for sucking at magic, and I’d beaten a reasonable collection of other pros earlier.
(Game 1 against Rubin, he beat me pretty soundly. Game 2, I failed for a crucial turn to draw a 5th land to unmorph my Silent Specter, then the next turn he swatted it. Plus, playing B/G, he drew his only Wirewood Savage both games… Bad times 
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Hey Max, you missed Goblin Wizard. 
(built-in ability to give itself or any other goblin pro-white)
So, of all red cards with protection of any kind, there are:
4 Pro-red, 5 Pro-white, (and 2 pro-blue.)
OK, so I didn’t remember that there were so many with pro-red, but at least there are more with pro-white.
Aside: if you also include Gold cards that are partly Red, you get:
Shivan Zombie, (Pro-white)
Windreaper Falcon, Yavimaya Barbarian (Pro-blue)
and that weirdo Tsabo Tavoc (Pro-legends)
And for the irridecent angel, if you’re going to include Helm of Possession, there’s also Gaunlets of Chaos (artifact that lets you swap control of one of your creatures (or artifacts or lands) for one of your opponents)
KK:
The wizards employee probably clammed up because his job is to sell you overpriced cards at retail prices. IMHO, ebay is the best place to get cards, but there are several other websites that specialize in selling only magic and other CCGs. A google search for “magic cards buy” should turn them up. Even better, check places like software, etc. (Gamestop) or babbages. Every now and then they try to clear out their CCG cards and put them on clearance. I recenty picked up a bunch of apocolypse and oddysey for $1.40/pack.
Too true. A few other tech ways to deal with the angel:
(1) Humility
(2) Noetic Scales
(3) Turn it into an artifact (with, say, Ashnod’s Transmorgant) and then do one of a variety of nasty things to it
(4) Stasis
(5) Moat/Gravity Sphere
(6) Chaosphere, plus artifact creatures
IIRC, you are allowed to sell cards on some of those newsgroups (the ones that contain .marketplace, I think.)
I lurked in those newsgroups for a while, and I can certainly see the reason to create newsgroups to keep ads and discussion separate, and the need to direct newbies to the proper group. However, I was also turned off by the tendency for certain posters to jump down a newbie’s throat if they mentioned buying, selling, or trading cards in any context. I wasn’t sure what the deal was, either. IMO, there’s a difference between “Here’s the link to my eBay auctions” and “Is eBay a good place to sell cards?” Maybe I just didn’t get it–I was only a lurker, after all.
My husband often buys boxes on booster packs online. IIRC, he usually checks out the places that advertise in Scrye magazine and shops around for deals.
Correct.
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Guilty as charged, y’honour. There’s been many debates on whether it’s the right way, but when it was done any other way it had little or no effect. I can think of better things to do with my time than crucifying fools, but regrettably there’s an endless supply of them stopping me.
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Some lurkers have more brains than posters. But yeah, you’re not getting it. Basically, discussion is forbidden because it leads to offers, and offers are not permitted. Let one offer in because someone asked for it, and before you’ve blinked twice you have ten more that nobody asked for following as the witless think “Oh look, I can sell my cards there”. The .misc group isn’t the right place for such talk anyway, because the .marketplace groups exist.