Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:54:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Wrong Two Heads: When a Loss Is More Valuable Than a Win https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/12/the-wrong-two-heads-when-a-loss-is-more-valuable-than-a-win/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/12/the-wrong-two-heads-when-a-loss-is-more-valuable-than-a-win/#respond Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=125087

Joe aka "Beardy" attends an ultra-competitive Two-Headed Giant Commander tournament with high stakes. Some commanders, and cards, were clearly above others...

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Will Joe aka "Beardy" get to take on Post Malone for $100,000 in a winner-take-all, high-stakes game of Commander? Read on to find out his weapon of choice.

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Tony shares his Double Masters 2022 draft experience along with getting to know a little about the other players in his draft pod.

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Rob talks about a card that's trending upwards for possible competitive reasons on today's segment.

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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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Modern isn't the only format targeted by Modern Masters 2017 reprints. David shares his thoughts on the landscape for casual specs in the new set.

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When is is right to take a "loss" in a trade? And what does that even mean? This week Derek examines the importance of paying attention to goals and reminds us that the price of a card is not the be-all end-all when sitting across from someone at the trade table.

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Modern Masters has been hyped as a value-laden set, and many people are cracking it for singles. Carl Szalich crunches the numbers to see if such a practice yields positive EV.

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Mike Lanigan weighs in on availability of Modern Master's and the recently-announced rule changes, then provides an update of his B/W Zombies list.

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As Greedo would agree, setting phasers to 'Fun' is hard work.

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Dissension, the third (and chronically-misspelled) set in Ravnica, showcased the remaining three guilds. We were introduced to the hellbent Rakdos, the gene-splicing Simic and the board-stalling Azorius guilds. Ravnica block is good for a couple money rares, but it didn't go as casually deep as I thought it would when I first thought about the block. Dissension has a few nice tournament staples aside from the obvious shocklands – let's take a look at the set!

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Carlos brings CawBlade to Commander. Can this be a cacophony of cool, or a catastrophic calamity? Come check it out!

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

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This week Stephen takes on a wide variety of topics ranging from the SCG Invitational series to the Wizards announcement of EDH/Commander support. Read on!

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