Fire/Ice | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Fire/Ice | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 MTG Metagame Finance #25 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/12/mtg-metagame-finance-25/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/12/mtg-metagame-finance-25/#respond Tue, 25 Dec 2018 17:44:01 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=90930

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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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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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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What conditions, if any, would cause you to concede on turn five of extra turns?

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Today Alexander Carl interviews Vintage guru Stephen Menendian! Read on for their discussion of the impending release of Vintage Masters and the future of the format online.

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Ryan gives a tournament report for a local Legacy event he recently did well at with RUG.

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This past weekend RUG Delver took a big step back into the limelight in Worcester. By coincidence, Ryan was busy taking down another Legacy event with the same archetype, though a significantly different list. To Probe or not to Probe, that seems to be the question.

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Is Ryan considering a spicy new RtR card in Legacy RUG Delver? He sure is. Read on to see which one.

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Ryan believes that everybody should just play RUG Delver in Legacy.

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Pick up a control deck just days before a Legacy tournament? Sure, I can win with that. You can too.

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Part summary, part style, all hot Cube theory. Usman shares a SWOT on pure gold.

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Corbin Hosler offers a full tournament report of his 2nd-place finish at the SCG: Legacy Open in Kansas City!

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