bolt test | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:20:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png bolt test | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Push It: Analyzing Modern’s Kill Spells https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/push-it-analyzing-moderns-kill-spells/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/push-it-analyzing-moderns-kill-spells/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:20:38 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15037 In The Bolt Test: Modern's High-Water Mark, I revisited an old Mike Flores article on toughness. Flores claimed a format was often defined by the amount of damage its red removal spell dealt. Burn spells generally serve as some of the most efficient—and versatile—removal spells in a given card pool, for their cheap costs and ability to […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/push-it-analyzing-moderns-kill-spells/feed/ 12 Eldritch Moon Thalia and the Bolt Test https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/06/eldritch-moon-thalia-bolt-test/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/06/eldritch-moon-thalia-bolt-test/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:00:16 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=10241 I got an email the other day asking if I'd finished any more Emrakul tests. I'll take that one publicly: no, because I haven't tested Emrakul specifically, but yes, because I've been getting in on the RG Tron MTGO action since last weekend. I'm really hating Jeskai's Crumbles and Snapcasters, but otherwise the deck has […]

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