The Magic Sock: Two Standard Decks

The Magic Sock: Two Standard Decks

The Magic Sock: A Magic: The Gathering video blog

Episode 3: "Two Standard Decks"

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Show Notes

--Introduction episode 3 of "The Magic Sock" video blog.
--Discussion of two standard decks. One is a red/white weenie deck and the other is mono blue.
--Run through of their sideboards.

Total running time: 13 minutes and 34 seconds.

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Mono Blue Deck  
Artifacts
3 Pithing Needle

Creatures
3 Jushi Apprentice
1 Thieving Magpie

Enchantments
3 Threads Of Disloyalty

Instants
3 Boomerang
3 Disrupting Shoal
4 Hinder
4 Mana Leak
2 Quash
3 Rewind
1 Telling Time
Legendary Creatures
2 Keiga, The Tide Star
3 Meloku The Clouded Mirror

Basic Lands
21 Island

Legendary Lands
1 Mikokoro, Center Of The Sea
1 Minamo, School At Water's Edge
1 Miren, The Moaning Well
1 Oboro, Palace In The Clouds
Sideboard
2 Journeyer's Kite
4 River Kaijin
1 Consuming Vortex
1 Overwhelming Intellect
1 Quash
3 Time Stop
3 Umezawa's Jitte

Red/White Weenie  
Land
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Mountain
8 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry

Spells
4 Char
4 Lightning Helix
4 Rally the Righteous
4 Shock
Creatures
4 Lantern Kami
4 Leonin Skyhunter
4 Paladin en-Vec
4 Skyknight Legionnaire
4 Suntail Hawk

Artifacts
4 Umezawa's Jitte
Sideboard
4 Devouring Light
3 Ghostly Prison
4 Pithing Needle
4 Terashi's Grasp

Feedback: themagicsock@gmail.com


About the author

  • 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.

    Registered in our forums as Mohan.

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