Dragonlord's Prerogative | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:25:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Dragonlord's Prerogative | 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 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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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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Hello, everyone and welcome to a new edition of the Daily Stock Watch! Pre-release weekend is near and everyone's hyped for Assassin's Trophy Guilds of Ravnica. The return of fair decks in Modern is coming as they say, so everyone who will be trying to take care of their prized possessions from the hottest thing […]

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Ryan breaks down the results of the Pro Tour and highlights the strategies that he believes will have the most success going forward.

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David pores over the Top 8 decks from PT SOI. He discusses strengths and weaknesses in the metagame moving forward, and closes with the weekend's financial takeaways.

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Brian DeMars looks at the first results to come in for Origins Standard. Some exciting cards made a splash while others are still waiting in the wings.

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This Standard format continues to evolve each week and GP Paris was no exception. Doug looks at cards that should be on your radar, and considers what may get a boost on rotation.

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Mike Flores earned a PT invite this weekend with... Tribal Dragons?

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Adam shares the hottest deck to come out of this weekend's Regional Pro Tour Qualifiers, Five-Color Dragon Control, and explains what cards within will gain value this week.

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The week before the first Regional PTQ ever has seen no shortage of interesting developments in the Standard metagame. Mike Lanigan provides his thoughts on the format.

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If you had any doubts of whether we'd see more Dragons after the Pro Tour, check out this weekend's tournament results, including both GP: Kraków and SCG.

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Mike Lanigan digests the decks from the Pro Tour that put up the best finishes, in preparation for the Regional PTQ fast approaching.

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An aggressive deck won the Pro Tour, but control was the winningest deck of the tournament.

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With Pro Tour: Dragons of Tarkir a wrap, Doug breaks down the cards that made showing and outlines a new Standard road map going forward.

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