Crystal Ball | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:00:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Crystal Ball | 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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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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This week, David Schumann picks some Magic "penny stocks," cards whose extremely low values may belie their real potential upside.

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Andy walks us through one of his more powerful Commander decks, based on library manipulation and headed by Maelstrom Wanderer. If you've ever longed to go nuts with Call of the Wild or Proteus Staff, read on.

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This week Carlos delves into some of the more obscure or "unplayable" Commanders in the format in order to see what they have to offer! What kind of tricksy things can Yomiji do? Let's find out!

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Greetings folks, I'm coming to you live from the Snapcaster Mage Standard Season. We have a lot going on here at the event and new tech is showing up all over the place. The latest news comes from Mike Flores who tried to take down his New York State Championship with a dedicated Snapcaster Mage […]

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If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man to build a budget fish deck, he wins Commander games for the rest of his life. You know Carlos is bringing the heat with Sygg!

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Bash bashed, but for how much and how well? Neale takes a reader submission and works with magic, discovering that planning must be proper to avert the dangers ahead!

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This week Stephen examines the block constructed format to find what can still hold value after this falls standard rotation.

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How did your financial predictions about Mirrodin Besieged turn out? Corbin Hosler grades himself on his own predictions in this weeks' Revenue Review.

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In the final Cube SWOT article Usman shatters notions around Artifacts, levying ruin to the everyday average.

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Being full of gas can be a bad thing but not in Commander! In this format the best of us run out of gas, miss land drops, and topdeck nothing but duds all game. This week David hits card advantage in Commander and how different types of card draw fulfill very different roles.

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