Elvish Piper | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 11 May 2022 14:21:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Elvish Piper | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Questioning My Inner Monologue https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/05/questioning-my-inner-monologue/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/05/questioning-my-inner-monologue/#respond Wed, 11 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=113747

David Schumann reminds us to question our assumptions about a card's speculative potential, lest our desire to see patterns leads us astray.

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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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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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For investors, the majority of the last 18 months has been a magical ride. Picking stocks on Wall Street in 2017 was easier than picking ripe avocados at the supermarket, and economic optimism was as high as I have ever seen in my lifetime. There was growth across nearly every sector and the major Wall […]

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Rob is back with another mythic rare from Battlebond.

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Masters 25 is flooding us with supply, and card prices have already dropped. David considers the lessons to learn so far and which reprints are best suited as speculation targets.

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Well, the entire lists were spoiled this weekend and the rest of the new cards have trickled in. I want to talk about the impact of reprints, but I think I will leave that to my article on the premium side coming out Tuesday. Let's address the rest of the new stuff here, shall we? […]

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David Schumann continues his review of eternal staples, this time focusing on rare and little-known gems from the Portal series.

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Gervaise addresses a variety of topics on trading and speculation, including his stance on Return to Ravnica preorders and some notable trades.

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Corbin Hosler checks back in on a collection he bought a few weeks ago and updates you on how he's doing in his goal to maximize the profits from flipping it!

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Corbin Hosler reviews 10 cards from Core Sets in the last five years that you probably didn't realize were as valuable as they are!

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Corbin Hosler explains why he targets Casual cards and why you should too!

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Stephen Moss takes a look at the cards to keep your eyes on a week out from the prerelease.

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This week brings us to the last part of Urza Block. We'll look at the set's theme of enchantments and their enablers while we go through a big history lesson in the process. You'll see the other “best creature ever printed” after Morphling (and Goblin Welder!) and see piles of beloved casual cards. Interestingly, Destiny […]

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Welcome back to the Revenue Review, where this week I hope to shed some light on the process of selling off some of your stock. I figured the best way to walk you through this topic was to clean out some of my own stock, something I’m overdue for. My girlfriend and I got a […]

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