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    The Nutt Draw: Monthly Demand Matrix Update

    It’s time again for a look at the Demand Matrix. What is the Demand Matrix? Is it what you call the line of fanboys waiting for the IMAX showing of the movie The Matrix in 3D? No not really, I don’t have that kind of...

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    Write to Reid 8/22/10

    Welcome to another edition of Write to Reid, Quiet Speculation’s mailbag column where you get to pick my brain and get answers to all the burning questions about Magic, Trading, Buying and Selling you may have.  If you’d like your question answered, shoot it to...

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    Dream Cache – Pruning the Collection

    It’s that time of year again, when I go through my stack of cards and pull out ones that I just need to get rid of. Some come from price enforcing local stores and I have not come around to selling them for a small...

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    Whinston’s Whisdom – Examining Digital Trading

    We’re back with another installment of Whinston’s Whisdom. From now on, I want to start taking this column in a different direction. Now that Russel Tassicker is no longer writing, I decided to take over his MTGO-centric column. In today’s article, I’m going to kick...

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    The Revenue Review – Top 10 post-Alara uncommons

    If you read my article last week about the power of uncommons, then you know how important having these in your collection can be. The ability to pick up sweet uncommons that many players don’t care about can be a boon to you in your...

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    The Nutt Draw: Why I hate Mythics

    Actually, I don’t hate Mythics. I just thought it was a catchy title. We’ve lived with Mythic cards for almost two years now and it seems that for better or worse they are here to stay. At this time I’d like to share my thoughts and comments that were previously only available in a limited edition spoken word version that I’d willingly rant to anyone who’d listen.

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    Dream Cache – Business Concepts

    Doug Linn explains the time value of money, arbitrage, and other such concepts!

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    Whinston’s Whisdom – Customer Service

    Hi everyone, and welcome to Whinston’s Whisdom. I hope you all enjoyed my last article on Quiet Speculation, and I’m glad to be back writing again. While last week’s prediction about Aluren becoming the runaway success story of Columbus wasn’t on the mark, it still...

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    The Revenue Review – The power of uncommons

    Quick quiz – Name the three most expensive cards from the following list: Lavaclaw Reaches Sensei’s Divining Top Spell Snare Malakir Bloodwitch Aether Vial Sunpetal Grove Mistbind Clique Celestial Purge Destructive Force Siege-Gang Commander All right, finished? An astute trader would immediately recognize that the...

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    Flash of Hindsight – An Introduction to Abundance Trading

    An Introduction to Abundance Trading So, while there’s nothing really epic to talk about in the “pick it up now” department, I promise I’m going to dedicate a little bit of our budget today by the end of the column, if only to sate everyone...

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