MTG Salvation, Magic: The Gathering Articles, Rumors and Community
Home Articles Zendikar Spoiler (249/249) Radar Forums Blogs Wiki Writing/Contests Chat About

The Magic Sock: Guildpact/Ravnica/9th Deck Challenge

The Magic Sock: Guildpact/Ravnica/9th Deck Challenge

By Ron Vitale on February 23rd, 2006 · Filed in The Magic Sock · 14 Comments

The Magic Sock: A Magic: The Gathering video blog

Episode 8: Ravnica/Guildpact/Ninth Edition Deck Challenge

Download the video blog in 640x480 divX 5.1.1 format (50.1 MB)
Download the video blog in 320x240 MPEG-4 format that can be played in Quicktime or on an iPod (17.9 MB)

Mirrors:

Download the video blog in 640x480 divX 5.1.1 format (50.1 MB)
Download the video blog in 320x240 MPEG-4 format that can be played in Quicktime or on an iPod (17.9 MB)

Show Notes:

--Introduction to episode 8: The Ravinca/Guildpact/Ninth edition deck challenge. Rules to the deck challenge:

Can use up to 2 of the same card from only Ravnica, Guildpact, or Ninth edition sets.
Only commons can be used.
60 card deck with a 15 card sideboard.
Any number of basic land can be used.
Post deck listing in MTGSalvation forums for others to see.

--To help you build the deck, visit: http://gatherer.wizards.com/ or http://www.magiccards.info/
--Discussion of the red/white deck I built and a gold fish run through. Review of the sideboard.

Red/White Deck

Deck  
Creatures

2 Aven Flock
2 Boros Recruit
2 Conclave Equenaut
2 Foot Soldiers
2 Hill Giant
2 Master Decoy
2 Nightguard Patrol
2 Pegasus Charger
2 Screeching Griffin
2 Skyknight Legionnaire
2 Thundersong Trumpeter
2 Veteran Armorer

Spells

2 Boros Signet
2 Faith's Fetters
2 Pacifism
2 Rally the Righteous
2 Shock
2 Volcanic Hammer		Lands

13 Mountain
11 Plains

2 Aven Cloudchaser
2 Demystify
2 Goblin Spelunkers
2 Holy Day
1 Leave No Trace
2 Pyromatics
2 Rain of Embers
2 Withstand		Sideboard

Total running time: 12 minutes and 14 seconds.

Creative Commons License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

Editor's Note: Quicktime will allow you to play the 320 x 240 .m4v file. If you see no video when you trying to play the DivX file or if the video does not play at all, we suggest you download the VLC media player (nearly every OS) or the DivX codec.

Subscribe using iTunes: To subscribe to The Magic Sock using iTunes, simply click here. (You'll need to have iTunes installed on your computer.)

For more information on how to subscribe to a podcast (video or audio), be sure to check out episode 5 of The Magic Sock: "How to Subscribe to a Podcast."

Closing:

Magic: The Gathering is trademarked and owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. The Magic Sock is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro in any way. To send feedback, send an e-mail to themagicsock@gmail.com. Audio feedback is welcome but please keep the mp3 file to under 45 seconds and be sure to mention your name and city/state/country.

By Ron Vitale on February 23rd, 2006 · Filed in The Magic Sock · 14 Comments