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Feeling Blue

Posted on 28 March 2006 by Dominic Hodgson

–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

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