With Modern coming back in full force, Kai examines how the return of large events and the shift in metagame has affected the market
Kai Haas
Kai has always had a profound connection to the game of MTG, and as time went on, the allure of the financial aspect took hold. They spend most of their spare time looking into the ins and outs of the bizarre and erratic world of MTG finance.
When they aren't speculating, they mostly play Commander, CEDH, Draft, Cube, and more recently, Standard. The most important thing to Kai is the pursuit of knowledge, because it's not what you know, it's knowing where to find what you don't.
On the heels of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Kai goes over some opportunities people missed, and how we can avoid making the same mistakes with Crimson Vow.
This week Kai digs into one of the forgotten products of 2020, looks at who was its target audience, and its long-term prospects.
With in-store play coming back all across the country, Kai examines the importance of Judge Promos, and why they are likely to gain newfound interest soon.
This week, Kai puts the market under a microscope in preparation for the release of Modern Horizons 2, with a focus on Modern.
With demand rising as COVID-19 restrictions loosen across the country, many stores and sellers are struggling to keep up with the increase in demand, or are readily preparing for a coming storm. Some may find an exorbitant of risk through restocking through collection purchasing, and today Kai will guide you through some of these risks, and ways to reduce that risk as much as possible.
Kai looks back to Core Set 2019, uncovering hidden gems from below the Rare slot and more.
Is Alliances really just Force of Will or bust? Kai outlines the growing potential of Alliances as an underappreciated set in a new era of Reserved List investing, and why you should be paying attention to other cards in the set.
Kai examines the recent spike of Chain of Smog from Onslaught, its infinite combo potential with Professor Onyx, and what that will mean for prices the near future.
Kai takes one last look at Time Spiral Remastered, with cautionary advice on the expectation of set and singles values.
With the new set Time Spiral Remastered coming out later this month, how might it perform on the secondary market? Kai explores the info and makes predictions.
In this article, Kai analyzes a recent anomaly in prices for certain cards with common misprints. Could this be a start to the misprint community making its mark on the larger finance community, or is it just be a coincidence?
Learning how to separate your personal feelings of sentiment about a card from your financial position is an important step to responsibly investing. In their first QS article, Kai discusses the pros, cons, and reasons for psycho-analyzing your own buying patterns, as well as defining the mentalities that define those patterns.
