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 thereās 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. Thereās a slight possibility they could drop again […]
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 […]
This is the first article from my new series, MTG Questions. You might be familiar with the Hold āEm & Fold āEm 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 seriesĀ will work together, as when […]
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 […]
Many people have been saying thereās been a little less movement regarding Magic finance during the past few weeks or months. Some people are saying thereās a slowdown. Others are saying itās normal because the holidays are around the corner and players have less money to spend on Magic cards. Regardless, Magic continues to move […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rob San Juan takes a closer look at the possible implications of JVP’s upcoming appearance in FTV: Transform.
Follow Luca as he goes through every single investment he made on MTGO in the past 45 days, to learn from both his successes and mistakes.
Oath of the Gatewatch really shook up Standard in Atlanta. Check out Eric’s thoughts on the new state of the format!
I’ll start off by saying that I’m not in love with Standard deck nomenclature. The name here reads like blue splashing Abzan… Sooner or later fetchlands will rotate out of Standard and this nonsense will sort itself out, so we have that going for us anyway. Seeing as the name doesn’t realistically tell you anything […]
Standard continues to deliver on the innovation front with GP Kobe last weekend. Mike picks apart some of the interesting decks from the event and presents his own build of B/W.