Desperate Ravings | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:58:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Desperate Ravings | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 QS Insider Cast – Theros: Beyond Death, Modern Bannings, and More! https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/01/qs-insider-cast-theros-beyond-death-modern-bannings-and-more/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/01/qs-insider-cast-theros-beyond-death-modern-bannings-and-more/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:00:39 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=94598 Welcome back to the QS Cast! Chris O’Berry and Sam Lowe discuss Theros: Beyond Death, recent Modern Bannings, Promo Pack reprints, and the Pioneer road ahead. This cast was originally broadcasted live to Insiders in the QS Insider Discord, January 20th, 2020. Show Notes - Legacy is awesome, but not very relevant right now. - Pioneer is […]

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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 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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Kyle is unfazed by his task to uncover the uncommons of Ixalan worth your unspent tix.

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Despite being geared mainly at the Legacy crowd, Eternal Masters has some decent cards to offer Modern. Sheridan breaks them down.

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On the eve of Eternal Masters' release, Alexander enlists the help of two expert drafters to break the set down and get a bead on the winning strategies.

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Alexander Carl wraps up the "Mistakes We Make" series with one more bout of common speculation errors. Yet again, he taps into the wealth of experience from the QS community.

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Mathieu has a new batch of hot trade and buy targets for this week as we move deeper into Ravnica.

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Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.

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First peek at Return to Ravnica Spoilers bring some unexpected winners for Standard as well as a peek at EBay and Legacy

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Chad looks at what we know about Return to Ravnica, and talks about how to speculate when rumors are abound.

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Ryan introduces dURdleMorePlease.dec, a UR control deck that utilizes Standard's new card drawing body.

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In the stock market, penny stocks are cheap, probably-junk securities that you get on the hope that they move up a few cents and show you a profit. They're an alluring strategy in the stock market because you can get a big volume of them. For one share of Apple, you could score well over 5,000 shares of a junk medical-science company that may be on the verge of a huge patent. If your shares go up, they go UP. We look at penny stocks in Magic the same way; these are the gambits that you stock up on with hopes of big payoffs.

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Mike takes a break from his usual constructed brewing and walks us through his X-2 sealed pool at Grand Prix Nashville.

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Mike examines the various Standard decks that aim to power out early praetors and titans. Read on to make sure you're prepared for a turn three Elesh Norn at your next tournament.

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