Captain Sisay | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:10:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Captain Sisay | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Adam Plays Magic: Chromatic Cube Draft https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/adam-plays-magic-chromatic-cube-draft/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/adam-plays-magic-chromatic-cube-draft/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=116220

This week on Adam Plays Magic, Adam dives into the wonderful midrange-y world of Chromatic Cube on Magic Arena. Come aboard for a wild ride of five-color value.

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David does a deep dive on Secret Lair series, with a focus how these reprints have affected overall prices of the reprinted cards.

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Editor's note: this article contains spoilers from the Magic storyline Hey Readers, welcome back! It's been a while since I've done a Commander Corner article, but what better way to break the drought than writing about one of my favorite Magic characters of all-time? I'll admit I was upset when I learned Nicol Bolas killed Niv-Mizzet, Parun […]

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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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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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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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Rob ends the week with a Freaky Friday card on today's segment!

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Rob is very positive about this card's future, and you should be, too.

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The Commander 2017 release, the start of Ixalan spoilers, the continued Reserved List buyouts, and a banned list update have made this a busy week in Magic finance...

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As rotation nears, we all need to be conscious of the opportunities on cards departing Standard. Jim looks at some likely slow gainers for Commander.

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The Ixalan leaks point to a major change in how planeswalkers function, and this makes a handful of cards suddenly much more desirable.

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The Legendary Cube debuted on MTGO yesterday, and it's a wild one! Prize Packs seems to be valuable right out the gates too, so don't miss out.

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David Schumann sifts through Born of the Gods spoilers for cards that may impact Legacy, Modern and Commander.

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Andy describes a brand new format combining Commander and cube draft, where players draft entire Commander decks, generals and all!

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We are hot into the second half of Champions of Kamigawa this week. Though the set had less power than Mirrodin, it was still full of interesting cards. The set even has a few power uncommons that I bet you didn't know about... no, I'm not talking about that damn Top! Find out what Rat is worth more than Meloku in this week's article!

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