Ghastly Conscription | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:27:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Ghastly Conscription | 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 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 is still in full bounce back mode, and the last World Magic Cup has come to a finish. Plus, some sweet Ravnica Allegiance spoilers have hit the market so there’s gonna be a nice mix of things to talk about again in this piece. Owing to the spoilers, this might be a little […]

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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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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/12/mtg-arena-has-been-framed-who-is-the-real-mtgo-killer/feed/ 4 Preparing for the December 6th Announcement https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/12/preparing-for-the-december-6th-announcement/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/12/preparing-for-the-december-6th-announcement/#respond Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:37:50 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=90668

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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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/12/preparing-for-the-december-6th-announcement/feed/ 0 [MTGO] 1 Year, 100 Tix – 365 Days Later https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/01/mtgo-1-year-100-tix-365-days-later/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/01/mtgo-1-year-100-tix-365-days-later/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:30:47 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=68383

The "100 Tix, 1 Year" project has come to an end. After a year of sharing MTGO specs with readers, Sylvain reviews the project and evaluates the final result in this concluding article.

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Breaking the slump from September and October, November has been much more productive for the "100 Tix, 1 Year" bankroll. Sylvain discusses how he aims to conclude the adventure.

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March's report of Sylvain's 100 Tix 1 Year project is here. The value of the account is still progressing up and the next few months promises to be loaded with opportunities. Sylvain also offers some more insight into how he views Quickflips.

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Derek recaps the results of his Fate Reforged box opening project and points out some potential winners from the lukewarm Modern metagame being established this last weekend at Pro Tour Fate Reforged.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/02/insider-cracking-boxes-and-pro-tour-fate-reforged-insights/feed/ 8 Ghastly Conscription https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/01/ghastly-conscription/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/01/ghastly-conscription/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2015 22:11:41 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=55655 Come see all our Fate Reforged spoiler coverage Ghastly Conscription For this much mana, we want to be winning the game. This just doesn't seem like a mythic to me, not when we have had this card. For 2 more mana you could have this effect. Did Rise not see play because it was prohibitively […]

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Come see all our Fate Reforged spoiler coverage Ghastly Conscription For this much mana, we want to be winning the game. This just doesn't seem like a mythic to me, not when we have had this card. For 2 more mana you could have this effect. Did Rise not see play because it was prohibitively […]

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