Daring Skyjek | 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 Daring Skyjek | 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 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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Ryan examines the new set's spoiler in search of information regarding the future of Standard.

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Mike Lanigan looks to iterate a successful deck from the current Standard format before it's all swept away with Born of the Gods. Check out B/W Humans!

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Ryan breaks down his sideboard plans for R/w Devotion, reasoning his way through all of the major Standard archetypes.

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Ryan breaks down the standard deck to which he has recently grown devoted: R/w Devotion. Read on the help prepare for your next PTQ!

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Jason Alt runs runs the percentages on skill, suggests self-accountability, and laments slash celebrates the current Standard and Legacy metagames.

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Jason Alt weighs in on the crashed MOCS event and resulting hullabaloo, before discussing the Top 8 Legacy and Standard decks from the weekend.

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Jason Alt discusses the run on newly-released Commander product and a host of tournament results including Eternal Weekend.

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Mike Lanigan reports on his day-two tournament finish last weekend at the GP in his hometown of Pittsburgh, covering both Gatecrash Sealed and Draft.

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