diversity | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:02:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png diversity | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Insider: MTG Business Models (Part 2) https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/02/insider-mtg-business-models-part-2/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/02/insider-mtg-business-models-part-2/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:00:17 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=94578

David shares the next part of his MTG Business Models series, this time providing insight into inventory diversification.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/03/first-strike-scg-dallas-analysis/feed/ 1 December 2017 Metagame Update https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/01/december-2017-metagame-update/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/01/december-2017-metagame-update/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:13:48 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=17049 Welcome back for the December metagame update. This month saw two large-scale Grand Prix delineate an extremely diverse metagame. Perhaps it's just my own personal bias, but I believe Modern is in a great spot right now—healthy, diverse, with interactive games and relevant decisions in deckbuilding and sideboard construction. This is the "metagame to beat" as […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/11/king-hill-using-flex-slots-open-meta/feed/ 0 Function or Finance? The Cause of Modern Diversity https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/12/function-finance-modern-diversity/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/12/function-finance-modern-diversity/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:01:34 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=12378 I've had a theory for a while about the supposed health of Modern. Diversity is a big talking point for people who want to play Modern or Legacy over Standard, and I'm not sure it's quite as diverse as people want to think. It's diverse in the sense that a lot of people play a […]

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