Heliod | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:33:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Heliod | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Prowess Paramount: May ’21 Metagame Update https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/06/prowess-paramount-may-21-metagame-update/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/06/prowess-paramount-may-21-metagame-update/#respond Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:00:01 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=23036

I'm interrupting this spoiler season with an important bulletin: it's time for the metagame update! And this will be a strange one. Although... I'm not entirely clear on what a normal metagame update might look like. I mention that there's something unexpected happening every month. It's never the same weird thing, but it's always something […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/06/prowess-paramount-may-21-metagame-update/feed/ 0 The Latest Contender? Analyzing Heliod Company https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/03/latest-contender-analyzing-heliod-company/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/03/latest-contender-analyzing-heliod-company/#respond Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:00:26 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22812 And now, back to our regularly scheduled metagame analysis. Let me just take a look at what's been winning... oh. MTGO's reporting system is bugged; there's been no new data since March 10. Huh. Ok, well, let me just see what's happening in the community... wait, really? Heliod Company is considered the best deck now? […]

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Budget-Focused returns, this week focusing on three sleeper hits

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David does a deep dive on Secret Lair series, with a focus how these reprints have affected overall prices of the reprinted cards.

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Sam's back from his hiatus to analyze the post-ban landscape! Find out what he's been up to, and where he finds himself in the current Magic market.

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The March 9, 2020 Banned and Restricted List Update is live! Here's the full list of cards in every format.

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The Pioneer metagame is on the move, and Adam has a report on what new cards have emerged and are on the rise.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/01/emerging-pioneer-staples/feed/ 0 Heroes Arise: Theros Beyond Death Spoilers https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/01/heroes-arise-theros-beyond-death-spoilers/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/01/heroes-arise-theros-beyond-death-spoilers/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:00:21 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=21150 Happy New Year! I'll be kicking off 2020 by leaping into spoiler season. Spoilers for Theros: Beyond Death began trickling in while everyone was on holiday break. Now, with our holiday hangovers but a painful memory, the flood has begun. There appears to be considerable potential for Modern cards, and given how 2019 went, I'm […]

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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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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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Three gods; three planeswalkers: Mike goes deep on each.

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Results from SCG Chicago are in, and a plethora of interesting new decks seem to have cropped up! Mike Lanigan looks over the ones that caught his eye.

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Mike Lanigan eschewed a 5k last weekend in favor of watching coverage from the World Championship. He recaps the strategic lessons he took away.

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With the upcoming release of Khans of Tarkir, Standard will lose the bulk of its current card pool. Adam outlines which strategies are expected to stick around, what cards may see a rise in popular, and how you can prepare and profit from the rotation.

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The MTG community was bombarded with new information from SDCC this past Saturday. What does it all mean? This week Sigmund digests the information and shares his initial reactions in a financial context.

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Danny makes the jump away from Insider with his Zero to Draft series. If you haven't had the chance to check out this great content before, now is the time to get started!

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