Battle of Wits | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:08:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Battle of Wits | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Generational Magic: 30 Years of My 30 Favorite Cards Part 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/11/generational-magic-30-years-of-my-30-favorite-cards-part-1/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/11/generational-magic-30-years-of-my-30-favorite-cards-part-1/#respond Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=122707

In the spirit of Magic's 30th Anniversary and nostalgia, Tony is sharing 30 of his favorite cards from each of his past 30 years of playing the game.

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Yorion, Sky Nomad has been banned in Modern. David E. breaks down the implications of this ban, which stands to change Modern without changing the metagame.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/10/big-decks-begone-yorions-banned/feed/ 0 June ’19 Brew Report, Pt. 1: Tribals, Tribulations https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/07/june-19-brew-report-pt-1-tribals-tribulations/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/07/june-19-brew-report-pt-1-tribals-tribulations/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:00:30 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=20353 In "Stitched Together: Early Successes from Horizons," we looked at some of the breakout cards in Magic's newest expansion. The month has now ended, and it's left plenty of new developments in its wake. Today, we'll look at the veritable explosion of tribal aggro strategies in Modern as well as a few novel takes on […]

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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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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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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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Matthew Lewis presents the MTGO Market Report for this week, evaluating important events in the online market and highlighting a “trade of the week.”

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Alternate win conditions provide an interesting case study for analyzing a specific category of cards. Niels looks in depth at the prices of this subset of cards.

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The week Jason delves into how tribal cards find their homes, both in casual and competitive formats.

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Gervaise addresses a variety of topics on trading and speculation, including his stance on Return to Ravnica preorders and some notable trades.

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Jason thinks M13 is more financially promising than it may appear at first glance. Read on to hear why, and stay tuned for tales of hilarious prerelease happenings.

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Corbin Hosler makes his predictions for Magic 2013 in his usual, profitable set review and Prerelease Primer!

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A couple of weeks ago, I booked my flight to Pro Tour: Nagoya, by way of Indianapolis, for the StarCityGames Invitational the weekend before. There was only one small problem: I wasn't yet qualified for the Invitational. I went to Charlotte with the aim of solving that problem. Along for the ride were Corey and […]

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