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The Magic Sock: Feeling Blue

By Ron Vitale on March 28th, 2006 · Filed in The Magic Sock · 8 Comments

The Magic Sock: A Magic: The Gathering video blog

Episode 11: Feeling Blue

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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 Creatures 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 1 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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Closing:

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By Ron Vitale on March 28th, 2006 · Filed in The Magic Sock · 8 Comments

About Ron Vitale

Ron has been playing Magic: The Gathering since Unlimited, writing articles over the years for StarCityGames, MTGOntario, the now defunct Grimmoire.com, and most recently MTGSalvation.com. His short fiction has appears on Ultraverse.com and Alienskinmagazine.com. One of Ron's most memorable Magic memories concerns being beaten to a pulp by Richard Garfield.