u/SomeGuyInPants

I was playing a bracket 4 game today (sorry) and resolved a Gifts Ungiven (first time playing with the card). I thought for certain I could find a pile that would allow me to win with Abdel but the monkey in my brain couldn't clap its cymbals fast enough. So, is there a combination of 4 cards, including Abdel + Animate Dead, that can win here independent of the existing board state and commander choice?

I work 4 10+ hour shifts a week and occasionally take a personal day when my company offers voluntary time off. My girlfriend works as a public school special needs para and will usually spend the summers working at a camp for children with special needs as well. She wasn't picked up by the camp this time around and she's been saying she's having difficulties finding jobs. She has a catering gig secured, but it looks like they hardly offer any hours. Anyhow, I took the day off today and when she came home she told me that I needed to be working because "we're in this together." I asked her to clarify if she meant I needed to be paying more than half of the bills, she said no and that "I don't even get food she likes at the grocery." Every time I go to the grocery I specifically ask if there's anything she'd like me to get for her, and she usually says no. I give her money for all sorts of things so I don't understand how any of this is my problem. I offered to help her reach out to places for work and she just said that she could do it but she hasn't had the time. We've been together for nearly two years and it seems like these sorts of things are just getting worse. I don't know what to do and I'm afraid that breaking up with her would leave her in a bad situation.

I know this is likely just bad variance, but I'm curious if anyone else has noticed a slight uptick in bad openers/mulligans with this set? I've had 2/4 games today be losses as a result of mana screw that a hypergeometric calculator shows as <%1 probability. I've been playing this game for a long time, I take my vegetables, 17 lands, the whole 9 yards but have had awful luck with this set, particularly keeping two land openers. Should I just be auto-mulliganing two land hands regardless of contents if this is the risk?