Blightning | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:33:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Blightning | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Modern Horizons: Spoilers and More! https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/05/modern-horizons-spoilers-and-more/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/05/modern-horizons-spoilers-and-more/#respond Sat, 25 May 2019 11:28:26 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=92775

Modern Horizons spoilers officially start May 19th. Be sure to check back with Quiet Speculation as the info rolls in!

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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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Just because Wizards can print any card off the Reserved List, that doesn't mean they will. David looks at the textless Magic Player Rewards cards and discusses their value as specs.

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This recent B&R Announcement is one for the ages. JTMS and BBE have returned to Modern!

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Is there a chance Bloodbraid Elf returns?

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Brian DeMars introduces his brainchild Magic variant, the Danger Room. He shares his current list and the philosophy behind it, before looking at Origins for new additions.

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Kolaghan's Command This card is really polarizing people, which is very interesting. Some have called it the best of the cycle, some the worst. This certainly feels a lot like the others to me - a card with sideboard modes but enough maindeck modes that you can feel confident slotting this in the main. I […]

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Kolaghan's Command This card is really polarizing people, which is very interesting. Some have called it the best of the cycle, some the worst. This certainly feels a lot like the others to me - a card with sideboard modes but enough maindeck modes that you can feel confident slotting this in the main. I […]

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Ryan lays down a few key premises to the current Modern format and brews a new list meant to take advantage of this landscape.

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Adam shares the new Modern deck and explains the card choices that all-time great Guillame Wafo-Tapo played to a cash finish at last weekend's Grand Prix!

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Ryan further expounds on the Mono-Black pauper archetype he introduced last week.

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In this installment Jason delves into the philosophy of speculation and the way we self-assess our success and failures, before addressing the results from Las Vegas, Toronto and Nagoya.

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This week Ryan riffs on some of the theories behind land count and attempts to go deep on his love of the 27th.

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