blue moon | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png blue moon | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 No Middle Ground: Kaldheim Spoiler Week 2 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/01/no-middle-ground-kaldheim-spoiler-week-2/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/01/no-middle-ground-kaldheim-spoiler-week-2/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:00:48 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22557 It's an odd set where there doesn't appear to be anything amiss. As I'm writing this sentence, there is nothing that even vaguely resembles anything dangerous. Which is not a bad thing. It's just weird, given that we've had the companions, Astrolabe, Uro, Oko, and Hogaak in the past two years busting everything. And that's […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/01/no-middle-ground-kaldheim-spoiler-week-2/feed/ 0 Brew Report: March Metagaming Madness https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/brew-report-march-metagaming-madness/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/brew-report-march-metagaming-madness/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:00:58 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=19813 Is Modern solved? Is Modern stale? Any amount of time spent on a Magic forum or subreddit these days seems to offer countless arguments from both sides of the debate. Indeed, this Phoenix/Dredge/Stirrings (in that order) metagame has proven the most divisive I can remember since Siege Rhino briefly served as hyper-acting format manager in […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/brew-report-march-metagaming-madness/feed/ 9 Video Series with Ryland: Jace Moon https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/02/video-series-with-ryland-jace-moon/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/02/video-series-with-ryland-jace-moon/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:00:44 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=17372 What an absolutely wild week for Modern. Playing with Bloodbraid Elf and Jace, the Mind Sculptor legal has been incredibly exciting and exhausting. With so many shells to try, and so many changes in deck-building philosophy (particularly for control decks) I feel like I'll never have enough time to explore all the avenues! Today's Blue […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/02/video-series-with-ryland-jace-moon/feed/ 7 Deck of the Week: Breach Blue Moon https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/dotw-ur-breach-blue-moon/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/dotw-ur-breach-blue-moon/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:59:49 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=16895 Hello, Nexites, and welcome to a new edition of Deck of the Week. The recent Modern meta has continuously shifted from fair decks, to combo decks, to big-mana decks. It says a lot about the diversity of the format, regardless of how other people think about the Top 8 decks at Grand Prix Oklahoma. With […]

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Well, it's been a long time since I've written the full metagame update, but you folks haven't gotten rid of me that easily. Know that our plans here at Nexus have always been to resume these and make them regular, but in a way that was sustainable moving forward. Rather than make speculative promises I […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/04/suspend-disbelief-as-foretold/feed/ 3 A Blue(ish) Moon on the Rise: Grixis Moon https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/01/ontherise-grixis-moon/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/01/ontherise-grixis-moon/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:36:01 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=12970

At some point last year I was killing time between rounds and a friend of mine asked if I wanted to jam some Modern. I didn't have a deck on me, but he had both Jund and Blue Moon. "Gimme that Jund deck. I'ma smash you." He was really into Blue Moon, but the deck […]

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Today finally brings an update to the metagame breakdown, with data from December. I know many of our readers have been very disappointed to see these fall by the wayside—I want to explain briefly why I've been lagging on them, and reassure you that they will be back in full force for 2017. I recently began […]

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