Flagstones of Trokair | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:58:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Flagstones of Trokair | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 December ’20 Brew Report, Pt. 1: Flagged! https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/12/december-20-brew-report-pt-1-flagged/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/12/december-20-brew-report-pt-1-flagged/#respond Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:00:15 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22467 The world's on fire, or so it can seem—depending on your news outlet, salvation may well be around the corner. In any case, there's one world that's blooming and flourishing, and that's the world of Magic: Online Modern invention! Today, we'll check out four of the coolest decks I've seen surface in December thus far, […]

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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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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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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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This is the first article from my new series, MTG Questions. You might be familiar with the Hold ‘Em & Fold ‘Em 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 series will work together, as when […]

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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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Rob is back with the second part of the Ultimate Masters special review.

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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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For this week, Eddie brings more Guilds of Ravnica spoiler talk and a dive into one of Magic's newest formats to crop up, Premodern.

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Rob is back with an analysis of one of the all-time great lands for today's edition of the Daily Stock Watch!

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Looking for a card that could see a huge boom at the Modern Pro Tour? Land destruction might just be a busted option for that tournament.

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The Pro Tour is days away and the time to buy cards before the tournament is dwindling. Adam shares insight into some potential specs he has identified.

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Derek covers a variety of topics straight from the trade floors of SCG Indianapolis, including the disturbing appearance of fake dual lands on the trade floor.

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Matthew Lewis believes the MTGO market has overreacted to the B&R announcement with its pricing of Liliana of the Veil. He explains why.

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Jared shares with us the ways in which Modern FNMs can be beneficial to speculators.

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This week Carlos delves into some of the more obscure or "unplayable" Commanders in the format in order to see what they have to offer! What kind of tricksy things can Yomiji do? Let's find out!

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In the last segment of his artifact extravaganza, Carlos is looking at Dark Ascension and Kataki, War's Wage. This guy has typically been considered unplayable for Commander; but when you build around his effect, he can be pretty nasty.

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Mike Lanigan takes a look at a post-bannings Modern.

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A new style where you make the calls! Join Carl's interactive learning and get involved in deciding which end of a trade you'd want to be on.

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