Chimeric Mass | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Chimeric Mass | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Case Against Power https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:20 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=91686

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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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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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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Hello, everybody and welcome to a new week of the Daily Stock Watch! Standard cards are starting to move in the wake of new brews with cards from Guild of Ravnica, and we're all but ready to see which deck will be the new Black Red Midrange (arguably the best deck from last season) of […]

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Neale polishes off the competitive commanders, and opens the floor for Azuza lists! Think you have the most savage green machine?

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Well, I made the trip out to Cincinnati this past weekend and it was a lot of fun. Not successful on my part, but certainly fun. If you are interested in a detailed list and thoughts on it, take a look at the article from last week. The deck I played was almost the exact […]

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Wanting to give the newest and mono-Blackiest cards a chance to shine, Gregory Marques walks us through his current project.

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With a new format becoming available for the first time Friday, it's time to take a quick look at what's available. For the most part, these will be aggro or combo decks, since control decks need to be built towards the metagame. As it stands, Caw-Blade is the premiere control deck in the format, and it can be played as-is with the mere addition of Batterskull.

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Competitive Commander. Neale is no oxymoron, and these six decks are out to kill you. Find out what they are and how to stop them!

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With the release of Mirrodin Besieged, Block Constructed has a reasonable enough cardpool to be playable, and the Daily Events and Premiers on Magic Online are firing. Having won the Premier last week, I am now clearly an expert on the format. Clearly. Here's the deck: Untitled Deck creatures 4 Goblin Wardriver4 Hero of Oxid […]

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With Pro Tour: Paris in the books and the Washington, D.C. Open coming up, Standard is currently in major flux, while Legacy seems to have stabilized somewhat from the last two Opens. Let's take this one format at a time. Caw-Blade is currently sitting pretty as the best deck in Standard thanks to the introduction […]

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Welcome to the Present-Present League! In this new semimonthly article series I'll explore new decks and new twists on known decks for the current Standard environment. The column title, "Present-Present League" is a nod to Wizards of the Coast R&D's Future-Future League in which I participated quite avidly for a couple of years. This week […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2010/09/the-revenue-review-banking-on-bulk/feed/ 24 Pink Ribbon Scars and Smashing Pumpkins https://www.quietspeculation.com/2010/09/pink-ribbon-scars-and-smashing-pumpkins/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2010/09/pink-ribbon-scars-and-smashing-pumpkins/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:24:11 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=2089 I feel I’ve let you all down. Last week, I hinted that there might be a surprise forthcoming in this week’s article. Unfortunately, this surprise has not yet arrived, and so must be postponed until next week at the earliest. I know, I’m weeping too. With that said, I’ll try to make up for it […]

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