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The Magic Sock #144: Sideboarding

Posted on 20 November 2008 by Ron Vitale

Total running time: 51 minutes and 22 seconds.

Show Notes:

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–Opening music by Luma (”Wake Up”) available on Podshow.com.
–Sideboarding. The importance of sideboarding. Discussion of some of the sideboards from Pro Tour Berlin.
–Special Announcement: My novel “Dorothea’s Song” is available as a free audiobook at Podiobooks.com. One episode will be released per week over the next 15 weeks.
–Blast from the Past: Review of the Odyssey set. Check out all the Magic sets on Wikipedia.
–Run through a Psychatog deck.
–Great feedback.
–Music by The Fire Apes. Their song “Let Me Know” is available at music.podshow.com.

 
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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Jensen Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    Shadowmage Infiltrator was Jon Finkel’s invitational card

  2. Justin Says:
    November 24th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    Ya, the Infiltrator is Finkel’s card.

    In addition, I’d just like to comment on the thoughtseize against Elves post-sideboard usage. If you’re playing against dragon elves, and they have the dragon in the hand, I believe you just let it sit there because they basically have no way of chording it out. They can still technically cast it, but that requires a lot of birchlore ranger activations and not the heritage druid activations. I think I recall seeing LSV making the decision of just letting them keep the dragon in their hand and pick off something of more importance, perhaps a card that’s key to the engine.

    Tog was seriously one of the most annoying decks to play against at that time. Hope U/G madness is up next week.

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