broken | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:00:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png broken | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Belch Please: What Is Hogaak? https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/08/belch-please-what-is-hogaak/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/08/belch-please-what-is-hogaak/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:00:44 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=20485 In terms of data, it seems Modern is at a crossroads. This is the problem I found myself with last week. Half the data said that Hogaak was a busted, dominate deck. The other said that it was successful, but only as a function of its popularity. The narrative coming out of last weekend is that […]

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