Hellspark Elemental | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:00:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Hellspark Elemental | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Buying and Selling the All-Time Highs https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/06/buying-and-selling-the-all-time-highs/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/06/buying-and-selling-the-all-time-highs/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:30:58 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=93126

While buyouts generate a ton of noise on MTG Stocks' Interests page, the All-time High list often contains more noteworthy movers in the market. This week Sig takes a look at the list and explains why he would still buy some cards on it while others he advocates selling.

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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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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 has hit the market and there’s already been a lot of movement. The prices of the reprints dropped as they usually do when a set first hits the market. But it seems like the prices have started to rebound a lot quicker this time around. There’s a slight possibility they could drop again […]

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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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Rob is back with his take on this green wrecking ball from Planar Chaos!

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Can't choose between Burn and Collected Company for Modern? Why not play both?

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Ryan is really enjoying brewing for Tiny Leaders. Check out his build of Zurgo Deck Wins!

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Adam Yurchick reports on the hottest deck in the game, Burn, which has been putting up uncharacteristically impressive showings in both Modern and Legacy.

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David Schumann reviews some more spoilers from Dragon's Maze to see what may make a splash in Legacy.

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Mike Lanigan brought Grixis to a Modern PTQ last weekend. Today's article describes his matches and the take-away.

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Mike Lanigan breaks down his deck choice for a local modern tourney and gives a tournament report on his first foray into modern.

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Extended is a complex competitive format and that most importantly can be extremely profitable.  There are some important things you need to know about Extended in order for it to be profitable to you. Earthquake, Great Sable Stag, Mind Shatter, Open the Vaults, Pithing Needle, Polymorph, Siege-Gang Commander, Twincast, Master of the Wild Hunt, Time […]

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You'll be seeing red this week as Usman runs through part 4 of his Cube SWOT series!

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My name is Joshua Justice. I'm technically a “Magic Pro” because I won a PTQ last year and made Day Two at Pro Tour: Amsterdam. In reality, I'm just a weekend grinder who's been back in the game for a little over a year, and I've had a couple of successful tournaments. This story begins two weeks before Grand Prix: Atlanta, in a comic shop called The DeeP in Huntsville, Alabama. My plan that day was to play in a Grand Prix Trial, then move to Atlanta to start my new job.

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Jund is one of the top decks in the Extended format, and here is everything you should need to supplement your playtesting with it for Grand Prix: Atlanta!

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This week, Usman begins a series on performing a SWOT analysis on each color in cubes, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each color and what it brings to aligned multicolor pairs, starting with an analysis of white.

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Again this week Kellen Huber goes into the extended format with a darker side to the format with a new BR deck.

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This week Gregory takes his first stab at a new extended deck, but soon discovers there are some important things you should think about when approaching this format.

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