Dylan Beckham continues his discussion of the Modern format as it evolves in season, covering metagame changes and the financial implications.
Finance
Financial articles focus on buying, selling and trading Magic: The Gathering cards for fun and profit!
Corbin Hosler examines the surprising decline of Modern staples as we move in season. This certainly doesn’t spell the end of Modern’s heyday, but it does merit a careful response.
Mike Lanigan looks at Standard right before the SCG Invitational and considers the financial impact of Conspiracy and M15.
Standard rotation has a strong effect on MTGO prices. Sylvain graphs out past trends and explains how this period of the year affects Standard speculations, particularly with cards from older sets.
When similar cards have different prices, one of them is often ripe for a correction. Jason Alt discusses how to look for these discrepancies and get ahead of the market.
Today Danny Brown covers the important task of collection organization. While it can be tedious to keep things in order, staying organized will pay real dividends.
Fetch Land reprints: it’s a matter of “when”, not “if”. Wizards has given us many teasers regarding what reprints we should expect, but nothing definitive. In fact, Sigmund has discovered yet another possibility while researching the presently available data.
With Vintage Masters a few days away, Alexander Carl examines the lessons of Modern Masters and offers a playbook for how to navigate release week and when to buy VMA cards.
As we enter the Modern season, the meta has already begun to take shape. He looks at some early indicators of the format and discusses what’s financially relevant.
Mike Lanigan breaks down the Modern Event Deck, discussing what’s financially relevant and the modifications that will be required to make it playable in Modern tournaments.
Some trends in Magic real estate are easy to predict, while some are trickier. Corbin Hosler surveys the current state of staple lands in Modern and Standard.