Aurelia's Fury | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 22 Apr 2022 05:11:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Aurelia's Fury | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Speculating on Hinata, Dawn-Crowned https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/03/speculating-on-hinata-dawn-crowned/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/03/speculating-on-hinata-dawn-crowned/#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=112498

Hinata, Dawn-Crowned is looking to be a fun build-around commander, and one that pairs well with a host of older bulk-bin rares. David highlights the top specs.

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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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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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Hello, everybody and welcome to a new week of the Daily Stock Watch! Standard cards are starting to move in the wake of new brews with cards from Guild of Ravnica, and we're all but ready to see which deck will be the new Black Red Midrange (arguably the best deck from last season) of […]

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For investors, the majority of the last 18 months has been a magical ride. Picking stocks on Wall Street in 2017 was easier than picking ripe avocados at the supermarket, and economic optimism was as high as I have ever seen in my lifetime. There was growth across nearly every sector and the major Wall […]

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David continues his review of Dominaria for Commander with the remaining gold legends, along with recommendations for specs to pair with them.

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Alexander Carl takes a look at some common speculation mistakes and what we can learn from them to improve our returns.

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This is a very exciting card. I think its best application is in 100 card decks where cards like Comet Storm and Fireball suddenly become insane. Aurelia's Fury becomes more playable, etc. I like a lot of what people are discussing with respect to this card. Strength of the Tajuru is a card that people […]

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Jason Alt weighs in on the crashed MOCS event and resulting hullabaloo, before discussing the Top 8 Legacy and Standard decks from the weekend.

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This week Jason Alt questions the ancient maxim "better lucky than good" and dissects results from the first week of new Standard.

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Jason Alt relates cognitive lag and undersea cables between New York and London to the world of MTG speculation, then pours over decklists.

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Again it's time for the review of Corbin Hosler's set review! Corbin looks back to his predictions about Gatecrash to see what he called correctly and what he missed.

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Jason suggests keeping abreast of the metagame may provide a lot of insight into speculation targets, then (conveniently) covers decks from the weekend.

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Matthew Lewis outlines his MTGO strategy for the next three months, drawing attention to several unanswered questions that will be especially worth keeping an eye on.

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