Disallow | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:13:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Disallow | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Commander Cards Under The Radar, July Edition https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/commander-cards-under-the-radar-july-edition/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/commander-cards-under-the-radar-july-edition/#respond Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=117160

Joe aka "Beardy" takes a look at some underappreciated and forgotten cards in Commander. Will you find what you need to shake up your local Commander night?

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What is FOMO? How does it relate to MTG finance? How can we recognize it, minimize its effects, or even harness its power? Pat has got some thoughts on this one. Check it out!

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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 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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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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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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David finishes up his "undervalued in Standard" series with the Core 2019 mythic rares, evaluating them as potential pickups leading into rotation.

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David begins the task of breaking down the non-rotating mythics to see where we might want to park some money leading into the fall rotation. The first stop: Ixalan.

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Rob is hyped about the potential of this card. Take an extra turn with him and find out why!

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Rob talks about one of the surging planeswalkers in Standard on today's segment.

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Rob features a Standard card that has the potential to be a multi-format superstar in the future!

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This week's bannings and the release of Rivals of Ixalan promise to bring about big changes to the Standard metagame and the market.

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We've got the full RIX spoiler now, and Adrian's got some ideas of how the metagame might evolve around a few of the new cards.

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Rob sees some hope in this card.. As Foretold.

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Rob thinks that this card is one of the future finance superstars. Take a look why.

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