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"Magic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards | ||
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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"Magic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards | ||
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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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