The Magic Sock: How to Build a Sealed Deck

The Magic Sock: How to Build a Sealed Deck

The Magic Sock: A Magic: The Gathering video blog

Episode 10: Building a Sealed Deck

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Show Notes:

--Introduction to episode 10: Building a Sealed Deck
--Discussion of a building a sealed deck.
--Focus on keeping the deck 40 cards, good mana curve, 40% of deck should be mana, and try to stay away from casting costs with two of the same color (E.g., UU or GG).
--The Licivious Biddies: Talk of their music and the walk for MS. To learn more about the Biddies, visit their website.
--More information about the MS Walk in New York that the Biddies are participating in. To donate, visit their MS Walk page.
--Run through the sealed deck listening to the podsafe song "Famous" by The Lascivious Biddies"

Green/Black/White Sealed Deck  
Creatures

1 Auratouched Mage
1 Centaur Safeguard
1 Civic Wayfinder
1 Courier Hawk
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Greater Mossdog
1 Guardian of Vitu-Ghazi
1 Harrier Griffin
2 Orzhov Euthanist
1 Selesnya Evangel
1 Stinkweed Imp
1 Transluminant
1 Veteran Armorer
1 Wild Cantor

Spells

1 Clinging Darkness
1 Douse in Gloom
1 Fists of Ironwood
1 Glare of Subdual
2 Wurmweaver Coil

Artifacts

1 Glass Golem
1 Spectral Searchlight

Lands

5 Forest
1 Golgari Rot Farm
2 Orzhov Basilica
1 Orzhova, the Church of Deals
4 Plains
4 Swamp

1 Brightflame
1 Burning-Tree Bloodscale
1 Caregiver
1 Consult the Necrosages
1 Convolute
1 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Dimir Signet
1 Drake Familiar
1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow
1 Gatherer of Graces
1 Gaze of the Gorgon
1 Goblin Spelunkers
1 Golgari Brownscale
1 Goliath Spider
2 Gruul Nodorog
1 Gruul Signet
1 Infiltrator's Magemark
1 Izzet Signet
1 Leap of Flame
1 Mindmoil
1 Moroii
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Ogre Savant
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Peel from Reality
1 Perilous Forays
1 Plagued Rusalka
1 Remand
1 Runeboggle
1 Sabertooth Alley Cat
1 Seismic Spike
1 Shred Memory
1 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
1 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
1 Skarrgan Skybreaker
1 Smogsteed Rider
1 Streetbreaker Wurm
1 Surge of Zeal
1 Surveilling Sprite
1 Thoughtpicker Witch
1 Torch Drake
1 Twisted Justice
1 Viashino Slasher
1 Vindictive Mob
1 Wee Dragonauts
1 Withstand
1 Wojek Siren
Sideboard

Total running time: 13 minutes and 35 seconds.

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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.

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