Field Researcher | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:12:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Field Researcher | 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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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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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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Rob thinks that the writing's on the wall for today's featured card.

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Rob ends the week with a Freaky Friday card on today's segment!

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Battlebond is one of the best sets in Magic history. Tune in!

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Rob analyzes the future of this dragon from Shadowmoor. Learn more about it here.

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Rob is very positive about this card's future, and you should be, too.

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Rob doesn't like the idea of riding this dragon's financial rise. Find out why!

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Tarkan and Chaz return with a lengthy post-Thanksgiving Episode!

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What's seeing play in the first big Standard tournaments after a new set and some bannings? Mike is here to give you the rundown!

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Nicolas is back with another BSH!

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Join the QS Cast for another discussion on Pro Tour Kaladesh, Conspiracy: Take the Crown and more!

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The SCG Invitational this weekend is sure to shake up both the Modern and Standard metagames. Ryan presents some picks for both formats.

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Join Sylvain for another week of high-stakes bankroll management on MTGO. He goes over the latest buys and sells and provides the reasoning behind them.

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The last thing we need in Standard is more Bant. Though perhaps you'll find this non-Company build more bearable.

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Join Sylvain for another week of high-stakes bankroll management on MTGO. He goes over the latest buys and sells and provides the reasoning behind them.

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