Countersquall | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:25:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Countersquall | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 MTG Metagame Finance #32 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/mtg-metagame-finance-32/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/mtg-metagame-finance-32/#respond Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:30:11 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=91796

Eddie has decided to take a break from writing, but not before leaving us with one more article. Today he discusses Mythic Championship Cleveland and the London mulligan rule.

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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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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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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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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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Rob thinks that the horde will triumph soon using this card.

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Rob thinks that this card defies logic. Take a look why.

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This week, Rob will feature cards from Iconic Masters. First up, Ancestral Vision!

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Managing bulk can be tedious, but a well thought-out process will save time and money. Brian breaks down his method for handling bulk without letting it take over his house.

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Adam explains how Modern is reacting to Aether Revolt and the recent bannings, plus some of the opportunities that have come up in response.

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Aether Revolt's Fatal Push and the bannings of Gitaxian Probe and Golgari-Grave Troll mean big things for the Modern market...

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Ryan made the finals of an 84 person Modern tournament this weekend with Delver, and has a tournament report and thoughts on the format to share.

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Sometimes cards limp off the banlist, and other times they explode. Check out Ryan's thoughts on the new face of Modern after the latest B&R changes!

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Brian DeMars introduces his brainchild Magic variant, the Danger Room. He shares his current list and the philosophy behind it, before looking at Origins for new additions.

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Ryan piloted Grixis Delver to a 7-1 record in the Modern portion of the Columbus Invitational. Find out why he thinks the deck is so great!

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Ryan took down a Modern PPTQ with Grixis Delver. Find out his thoughts on the build and what to change moving forward.

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Tasigur has proven itself a boon to Modern Delver decks. Ryan has some suggestions for optimizing the deck in the current Modern Metagame!

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