The Magic Sock

Episode 11: Feeling Blue

Originally posted 3/28/06

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Show Notes:
--Video Introduction: You finally get to see the "Magic Sock" in action. Setup: Mr. Sock is in the shower and his son yells: "Daddy, it's time for the podcast!" Hilarity ensues.
-- Introduction to episode 11: Feeling Blue
--Discussion of Counterspell being the best common in all of Magic (Yes, I know that Counterspell started out as an uncommon).
--Run through of a Blue counterspell deck I had built back in March of 2002.
--Comparison of the Blue 2002 counterspell deck with a 2005 Vintage Fish deck, mentioning similarities.
--Disagree with what the best common is? Request for feedback.

2002 Vintage Blue Deck

Spells

2 Boomerang
  2 Capsize
  4 Counterspell
  4 Dissipate
  4 Force of Will
  4 Impulse
  1 Mana Drain
  2 Mana Leak
  1 Misdirection

Creatuers

3 Masticore
  4 Ophidian
  2 Morphling

Artifact

1 Powder Keg
  1 Sol Ring

Land

20 Island
  4 Faerie Conclave
1 Strip Mine

2005 Vintage Blue/White Fish Deck

Spells

1 Ancestral Recall
  3 Curiosity
  3 Daze
  4 Force of Will
  4 Standstill
  2 Stifle
  3 Swords to Plowshares
  1 Time Walk

Creatures

4 Cloud of Faeries
  4 Meddling Mage
  4 Spiketail Hatchling

Land

3 Flooded Strand
  2 Island
  1 Library of Alexandria
  4 Mishra's Factory
  3 Polluted Delta
  1 Savannah
  1 Strip Mine
  1 Tropical Island
  3 Tundra
  4 Wasteland

Artifact

Mox Sapphire
  3 Null Rod

Sideboard

3 Chalice of the Void
  2 Energy Flux
  2 Ground Seal
  1 Null Rod
  4 Ray of Revelation
  2 Rushing River
  1 Swords to Plowshares

Total running time: 18 minutes and 6 seconds.

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Episode 8: Ravnica/Guildpact/Ninth Edition Deck Challenge

Originally posted 2/23/06

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Episode 8: Ravnica/Guildpack/Ninth Edition Deck Challenge

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--Introduction to episode 8: The Ravinca/Guildpact/Ninth edition
deck challenge. Rules to the deck challenge:

Can use up to 2 of the same card from only Ravnica, Guildpact, or Ninth edition sets.
Only commons can be used.
60 card deck with a 15 card sideboard.
Any number of basic land can be used.
Post deck listing in MTGSalvation forums for others to see.

--To help you build the deck, visit: http://gatherer.wizards.com/ or http://www.magiccards.info/

--Discussion of the red/white deck I built and a gold fish run through. Review
of the sideboard.

Red/White Deck

Creatures

2 Aven Flock
2 Boros Recruit
2 Conclave Equenaut
2 Foot Soldiers
2 Hill Giant
2 Master Decoy
2 Nightguard Patrol
2 Pegasus Charger
2 Screeching Griffin
2 Skyknight Legionnaire
2 Thundersong Trumpeter
2 Veteran Armorer

Spells

2 Boros Signet
2 Faith's Fetters
2 Pacifism
2 Rally the Righteous
2 Shock
2 Volcanic Hammer

Lands

13 Mountain
11 Plains

Sideboard

2 Aven Cloudchaser
2 Demystify
2 Goblin Spelunkers
2 Holy Day
1 Leave No Trace
2 Pyromatics
2 Rain of Embers
2 Withstand

Total running time: 12 minutes and 14 seconds.

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Episode 10: Building a Sealed Deck

Originally posted 3/16/06

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Show Notes:
--Introduction to episode 10: Building a Sealed Deck
  --Discussion of a building a sealed deck.
--Focus on keeping the deck 40 cards, good mana curve, 40% of deck should be mana, and try to stay away from casting costs with two of the same color (E.g., UU or GG).
  --The Licivious Biddies: Talk of their music and the walk for MS.  To learn more about the Biddies, visit their website.
  --More information about the MS Walk in New York that the Biddies are participating in. To donate, visit their MS Walk page.
  --Run through the sealed deck listening to the podsafe song "Famous" by The Lascivious Biddies"

White/Green/Black Sealed Deck
Creatures
Auratouched Mage
Centaur Safeguard
Civic Wayfinder
Courier Hawk
Dimir House Guard
Greater Mossdog
Guardian of Vitu-Ghazi
Harrier Griffin
2 Orzhov Euthanist
Selesnya Evangel
Stinkweed Imp
Transluminant
Veteran Armorer
Wild Cantor

Spells
Clinging Darkness
Douse in Gloom
Fists of Ironwood
Glare of Subdual
2 Wurmweaver Coil

Artifacts
Glass Golem
Spectral Searchlight

Lands
5 Forest
Golgari Rot Farm
2 Orzhov Basilica
Orzhova, the Church of Deals
4 Plains
4 Swamp

Sideboard
Brightflame
Burning-Tree Bloodscale
Caregiver
Consult the Necrosages
Convolute
Dimir Infiltrator
Dimir Signet
Drake Familiar
Duskmantle, House of Shadow
Gatherer of Graces
Gaze of the Gorgon
Goblin Spelunkers
Golgari Brownscale
Goliath Spider
2 Gruul Nodorog
Gruul Signet
Infiltrator's Magemark
Izzet Signet
Leap of Flame
Mindmoil
Moroii
Muddle the Mixture
Ogre Savant
Orzhov Signet
Peel from Reality
Perilous Forays
Plagued Rusalka
Remand
Runeboggle
Sabertooth Alley Cat
Seismic Spike
Shred Memory
Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
Skarrgan Skybreaker
Smogsteed Rider
Streetbreaker Wurm
Surge of Zeal
Surveilling Sprite
Thoughtpicker Witch
Torch Drake
Twisted Justice
Viashino Slasher
Vindictive Mob
Wee Dragonauts
Withstand
Wojek Siren

Total running time: 13 minutes and 35 seconds.

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Episode 9: Staying Power

Originally posted 3/6/06

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Show Notes:

--Introduction to episode 9: Staying Power
--Discussion of a white/blue (splash of black)Replenish multiplayer deck.
--Review of the early, mid, and late game board in a four player game.
--Run through of multiple ways to win and stay alive.

Multiplayer Replenish Deck

Land
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Coastal Tower
2 High Market
4 Island
1 Kor Haven
1 Karakas
4 Plains
1 Serra’s Sanctum
1 Strip Mine

Creatures
4 Academy Rector
1 Blinding Angel
1 Faith Healer
4 Meddling Mage
3 Mother of Runes
3 Serra Angel
1 Serra Avatar
4 Voice of All
1 Wall of Glare

Spells
1 Balance
1 Ivory Mask
1 Moat
1 Parallax Wave
1 Pariah
4 Replenish
1 Seal of Cleansing
2 Worship
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
1 Zephid’s Embrace

Artifacts
1 Claws of Gix
1 Grim Monolith

Total running time: 13 minutes and 8 seconds.

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