Gold Myr | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Gold Myr | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 No Myr Coincidence: Speculating on Urtet https://www.quietspeculation.com/2023/02/no-myr-coincidence-speculating-on-urtet/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2023/02/no-myr-coincidence-speculating-on-urtet/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=127070

David S. discusses the recent spike in cards for Urtet decks, as well as some juicy targets the speculators may have missed. Is it still early enough to strike?

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

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[This is an offering from Zach McNair, fresh off a Top 16 and a Top 32 finish each during his PTQ: Paris season. Zach actually wrote this article for us more than a month ago, so please keep that in mind as you share in the comments whether you'd like to read more from Zach […]

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I’m going to be honest, this article was hard for me to write. Why? Because this weekend’s limited PTQ was the worst Magic tournament I have ever played in over ten years of playing tournaments. Was I unlucky? No. Was my pool bad? No. I played absolutely terrible Magic. There wasn’t even a game where […]

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