Conspiracy | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:12:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Conspiracy | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 All the Spoiler Seasons https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/06/all-the-spoiler-seasons/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/06/all-the-spoiler-seasons/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:00:29 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=93116

Spoiler season is about to begin...again! Between War of the Spark, Modern Horizons, and Core Set 2020, how does anyone have any money left to buy new Magic cards? Perhaps they don't. This week Sig examines potential long-term implications of these competing set releases.

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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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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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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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There's a new Commander in town that's making a particular tribe a lot more relevant in Commander.

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A quick list of omitted cards from Commander 2017.

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The leaked Ixalan sheet revealed many cards from the set coming this fall. David looks at how the spoiled cards might affect several formats, starting with Commander.

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Mike presents an overview of the financial gems and opportunities in Conspiracy: Take the Crown.

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Join the QS Cast for another discussion on everything Magic finance.

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Conspiracy looks like a great set, that is likely to be aggressively farmed. Is there any value to be found?

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The QSCast crew is back with Conspiracy coverage and more in another informative podcast!

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/08/insider-qs-cast-33-take-the-crown/feed/ 0 The SCG Elventational and Bant Eldrazi Staples https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/08/scg-elventational-bant-eldrazi-staples/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/08/scg-elventational-bant-eldrazi-staples/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:00:20 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=11156 Score one for the budget guys: Elves won the Star City Games Invitational in Somerset, NJ. While Liam Lonergan's deck still retails for about $800, almost half of the price is in 4 Cavern of Souls and 3 Horizon Canopy. If you're tight on cash (or waiting for a reprint, like me) you can get away with some […]

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Now that Journey into Nyx is fully spoiled and I have you started on a few leads to try out testing wise, let's take a minute to talk about Conspiracy. We know a few things so far. From the Wiki, Conspiracy is a Magic: The Gathering format to be released on June 6, 2014, cryptically […]

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  After some impressive sleuthing, those crazy kids over at Reddit finally deciphered the Multiverse's greatest thief! It's a pretty cool story, involving typing secret words into DailyMTG articles and using cyphers from cryptic Twitter accounts. Basically, Wizards' community relations department does a great job providing these Easter eggs for the fandom, and I love […]

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UPDATE:  The entire card has been revealed!  Check it out! We all know Wizards loves to bury spoilers for cards. We've seen Jace pieced out all over the world. We've seen Innistrad spoilers hidden in cryptic messages disguised as flavor. We've seen Return to Ravnica story spoilers brought out because of a one-point difference in […]

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