Deathrite Shaman | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:40:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Deathrite Shaman | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 March ’25 Metagame Update: Back to the Underworld https://www.quietspeculation.com/2025/04/march-25-metagame-update-back-to-the-underworld/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2025/04/march-25-metagame-update-back-to-the-underworld/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=132666

As anticipated, Wizards banned Underworld Breach on Monday. Now we wait for Mox Opal to break another deck.

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Commander gives us 100 cards to work with, but is that enough? Joe aka "Beardy" unveils ways to circumvent this restriction and jam-pack decks full of spells.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2023/03/commander-deck-full-heres-five-tricks-to-beat-the-limit/feed/ 0 Everything’s Relative: Card Power Examined https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/01/everythings-relative-card-power-examined/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/01/everythings-relative-card-power-examined/#respond Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=108968

As Modern crawls with red one-drops, David tries to answer the question burning in everyone's mind: is Ragavan or DRC king among them?

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Sigmund is out for the week! In the meantime, please enjoy this unlocked Insider article from 2018 regarding Springtime Reserved List buyouts.

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David follows up on his look at Pioneer, this time setting his sights some important cards to consider for the early stages of the format.

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The rare Legacy GP event occurred this weekend, taken down by UW Stoneblade. Christopher takes stock of the format and considers some cards in good position to rise.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/04/magicfest-niagara-falls-and-the-future-of-tundra/feed/ 1 Insider: Tales from the Buylist #4 – Legacy Foreshadowing, Modern Horizons https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/insider-tales-from-the-buylist-4-legacy-foreshadowing-modern-horizons/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/03/insider-tales-from-the-buylist-4-legacy-foreshadowing-modern-horizons/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2019 10:00:56 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=91794

With several high-profile Legacy events on the horizon, Christopher is looking to format staples for growth. He lays out his reasoning and the current best targets.

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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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Eddie takes a look at some cards to pick up during the winter lull, and prepares us for more Ravnica Allegiance spoiler speculation.

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Rob closes out his UMA Box Toppers review special on today's segment.

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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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Rob finishes his review of the Ultimate Masters set in today's segment.

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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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Danny's back to cover Guilds of Ravnica. Is there anything that should be on our Cube acquisition lists?

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