Angel of Serenity | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:37:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Angel of Serenity | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Case Against Power https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:20 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=91686

Today's article subject spawned from a discussion that began in the QS Discord chat. One of our members was contemplating stepping away from the game for a while and wanted to know the best place to park his money and/or what to trade into. As expected, a lot of people immediately jumped to Power. The general […]

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The sequel to Guilds of Ravnica and the 80th expansion set in Magic: The Gathering's history is due to release on January 25, 2019.  Here's what we know about Ravnica Allegiance (RNA) so far, including any cards in the spoiler, the guilds represented, and cards to speculate on before the full spoiler is released.   The Guilds […]

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Eddie takes a look at some cards to pick up during the winter lull, and prepares us for more Ravnica Allegiance spoiler speculation.

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The holidays are in full swing and the new year is right around the corner. And as some of you may know, the stock market has been a bit shaky in the last month or so. But it seems Magic is still doing pretty well during this slightly volatile time. I think a good portion […]

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Ultimate Masters is still in full bounce back mode, and the last World Magic Cup has come to a finish. Plus, some sweet Ravnica Allegiance spoilers have hit the market so there’s gonna be a nice mix of things to talk about again in this piece. Owing to the spoilers, this might be a little […]

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Ultimate Masters has hit the market and there’s already been a lot of movement. The prices of the reprints dropped as they usually do when a set first hits the market. But it seems like the prices have started to rebound a lot quicker this time around. There’s a slight possibility they could drop again […]

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Magic Online has a problem. A card value problem. In a recent Channel Fireball article, Florian Koch showed just how much card prices have fallen over the past few years: That's right. To own a playset of the cheapest version of every Magic card ever printed on MTGO would have cost you roughly $28,000 in […]

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This is the first article from my new series, MTG Questions. You might be familiar with the Hold ‘Em & Fold ‘Em series (rebranded as MTG Metagame Finance), which takes a tournament-oriented perspective. I decided to start this series to focus on more general aspects of MTG finance. The two series will work together, as when […]

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Welcome back, folks. It's been a while since I last wrote an article, in large part because I've been unwilling to make any financial moves on MTGO before reading the December 6th announcement about competitive play on Arena. What is announced there could have major ramifications for investing on MTGO, and so I've been very […]

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Many people have been saying there’s been a little less movement regarding Magic finance during the past few weeks or months. Some people are saying there’s a slowdown. Others are saying it’s normal because the holidays are around the corner and players have less money to spend on Magic cards. Regardless, Magic continues to move […]

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Rob ends the week with a freaky Friday feature!

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Monday evening, the Magic community lost a talented editor and a wonderful person in Daily MTG copy editor Mike McArtor. As a tribute to Mike's life and his impact on the Daily MTG staff, the website went dark all day Tuesday and was replaced with an incredibly moving tribute to Mike and all of the […]

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Last week Sylvain examined how the time spent on an investment can be incorporated into performance calculations. This week he expands the parameters, and attempts to arrive at a universal formula to apply to any spec.

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Sylvain examines a critical component of any investment--time. Between the duration of the investment itself and the human labor required to implement it, time is one component you don't want to underestimate when evaluating the performance of a spec.

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Sigmund made some critical mistakes in his assessment of the Jeskai shard a couple weeks ago. This week he comes clean and analyzes his errors, highlighting a valuable lesson everyone could learn from.

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Starting with mythics, this week Sylvain discusses which cards from M14 and Return to Ravnica may constitute a good investment after Standard rotates.

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In this new chapter of his Nine Months of Portfolio Management, Sylvain discusses the poor decisions he made with Return to Ravnica block cards--the losing category of his portfolio--and explain what not to do with Standard positions.

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David Schumann covers the juiciest RTR cards to target at rotation this year. These cards will be dropping like stones, and unlikely to be on most players' minds.

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Sylvain unveils the groundwork to his recent MTGO portfolio management experiment. What did he do with thousands of tix?

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Sylvain Lehoux goes over his experiences speculating on Block from the last two years, and applies lessons to Journey Into Nyx.

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