Gather the Townsfolk | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:58:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Gather the Townsfolk | 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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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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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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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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Looking for a Modern brew off the beaten path? Love Blood Mooning people? Hate Amulet bloom? Then Ryan Hipp has the brew for you!

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Pauper leagues are in full swing, which means tons of decklists to pick over! Ryan provides his thoughts on the state of the format and the best way to invest.

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After a string of high finishes with the deck, Mike Lanigan takes Aristocrats 3.0 to a PTQ, narrowly missing top eight.

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Mike Lanigan discusses Mutavault's future in Standard before turning to M14 to tweak old archetypes and brew up some brand new ones.

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The Gatecrash Event Decks have been spoiled and everything is ruined. I kid, but things have certainly got more interesting. Thrive and Thrash — Gatecrash Event Deck Creatures 2 Acidic Slime4 Arbor Elf3 Borderland Ranger1 Deadeye Navigator1 Dungeon Geists2 Fog Bank1 Gruul Ragebeast2 Mist Raven1 Sphinx of Uthuun3 Strangleroot Geist1 Thragtusk1 Wolfir Silverheart1 Yeva, Nature's Herald […]

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Witness the unveiling of Ryan's pauper cube list and see if it inspires you to join in the awesomeness.

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The decks in Standard tend to break down into Thragtusk and anti-Thragtusk. Mike examines both sides to find out which is preferable.

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The big talk of the SCG Open in New Orleans this past weekend was the winning deck, a G/W aggro list that leans heavily on Humans. This week, we are going to look at the deck's performance, why it worked, and pick out some juicy speculation targets.

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Mike brews up some possible shells for a sure-to-be contender in Standard's near future, Armada Wurm.

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Mike scours the M13 spoiler for the best Constructed cards soon to be released. Read on to see his top ten picks for Standard.

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In the stock market, penny stocks are cheap, probably-junk securities that you get on the hope that they move up a few cents and show you a profit. They're an alluring strategy in the stock market because you can get a big volume of them. For one share of Apple, you could score well over 5,000 shares of a junk medical-science company that may be on the verge of a huge patent. If your shares go up, they go UP. We look at penny stocks in Magic the same way; these are the gambits that you stock up on with hopes of big payoffs.

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Mike Lanigan breaks down some new Delver lists and gives his opinion on a few spoilers.

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