Great Whale | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Great Whale | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Life Lessons on Collectables, Pt. 1 (1993-2004) https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/08/life-lessons-on-collectables-pt-1-1993-2004/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/08/life-lessons-on-collectables-pt-1-1993-2004/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=118637

David S. has played Magic for 25 years, but has collected various cards for almost 30 years. Today, he shares some life lessons he's learned along the way.

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Malcolm talks about several important TCGPlayer metrics and how they can be used to analyze card prices by comparing there spreads to one another.

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David takes a close look at Yarok, the Desecrated and outlines his picks for this Commander going forward.

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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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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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Kyle has thought quite a bit about how Magic Arena is likely to impact MTGO. What's the future of the platform? Read his thoughts and then share your own!

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David looks at the notable cards from Eternal Masters he expects to impact Commander prices, with an accompanying explanation for each.

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Andy walks us through one of his more powerful Commander decks, based on library manipulation and headed by Maelstrom Wanderer. If you've ever longed to go nuts with Call of the Wild or Proteus Staff, read on.

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In 1998, I read an article in Inquest Magazine about Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest. From that point, I was hooked on the idea of playing value-laden creatures, aiming to overpower an opponent in card advantage and maybe pull off a combo kill. Decks at that time ran Great Whale and Shivan Hellkite […]

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Hello, and welcome to our exploration of Urza's Legacy! The second set in the Broken Block amped up the power even more for Magic. It was the first set to be printed in foil, as well. Foil-mania swept collectors around this time; fresh from $100 Pokemon foils, people scrambled to make sets. Importantly, foils were […]

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Urza's Saga is the first set in one of the financial powerhouse blocks of Magic. Though it was supposed to be themed around enchantments, I reckon that Urza's Saga really has the theme of “you'll pay $10 for this, this and this.” While Tempest represented the first truly modern set, Saga expanded on this to […]

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