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Magical Creatures: Lhurgoyf and Phelddagriff

Francesco Spagnol — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Francesco discusses the magical creatures created specifically for Magic from the Ice Age and Alliances expansions, exploring their birth and evolution.

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Magical Creatures: Magic’s Unique Living Beings

Francesco Spagnol — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Francesco looks at one of Magic IP's most significant elements: the design of its unique and amazing creatures. This series explores their origins.

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Commander Legends: Spoilers and More!

Joseph Davidson — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:32:25 +0000

Commander Legends spoiler season is here and the Quiet Speculation team is hyped! Joe takes a look at the highlights from each day of spoilers and helps you prepare for release day.

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Ravnica Allegiance: Spoilers, Facts, Specs & More

Edward Eng — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:00:24 +0000

The sequel to Guilds of Ravnica and the 80th expansion set in Magic: The Gathering's history is due to release on January 25, 2019. Here's what we know about Ravnica Allegiance (RNA) so far, including any cards in the spoiler, the guilds represented, and cards to speculate on before the full spoiler is released. The Guilds […]

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MTG Metagame Finance #25

Edward Eng — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 17:44:01 +0000

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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MTG Metagame Finance #24

Edward Eng — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:05:52 +0000

Ultimate Masters is still in full bounce back mode, and the last World Magic Cup has come to a finish. Plus, some sweet Ravnica Allegiance spoilers have hit the market so there’s gonna be a nice mix of things to talk about again in this piece. Owing to the spoilers, this might be a little […]

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Mtg Arena Has Been Framed! Who Is the Real MTGO Killer?

Kyle Rusciano — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:00:44 +0000

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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MTG Questions: What’s an Easy Way to Sell Bulk?

Edward Eng — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:00:42 +0000

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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Hold ‘Em & Fold ‘Em #20

Edward Eng — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:15:32 +0000

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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Daily Stock Watch – Spellskite

Jamie Robertson San Juan — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:20:19 +0000

Hello, everyone and welcome to a new edition of the Daily Stock Watch! Pre-release weekend is near and everyone's hyped for Assassin's Trophy Guilds of Ravnica. The return of fair decks in Modern is coming as they say, so everyone who will be trying to take care of their prized possessions from the hottest thing […]

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Insider: A Look at Supplemental Products

David Schumann — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:02:21 +0000

Over the years Wizards has produced a ton of supplemental products, with a range of differing values. David breaks down every supplemental product and its cards of note.

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Insider: Modern Stars Posing as Standard Cards

Brian DeMars — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:30:19 +0000

Even before rotating from Standard, the value of some cards is driven by Modern demand. Brian covers some staples you'd do well to consider picking up now.

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Flashback Magic: Inquest #21

Danny Brown — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:14:37 +0000

A look through another classic MTG magazine...

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Skullbriar, Innistrad’s Bestest Buddy

Neale Talbot — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:02:05 +0000

Neale lines up a howling good time without laying a finger on a Werewolf. It's new-school Commander all the way!

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Digging Up Innistrad: Part I

Jules Robins — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:04:25 +0000

Jules is digging deep to uncover and share the mysteries of the grave. Are you ready for playing in the dirt, six feet under?

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Congealing a Mimeoplasm

Jules Robins — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:07:14 +0000

As promised, this week we're going to dive into some real deckbuilding with the new cards. I was intrigued as soon as I saw The Mimeoplasm; who wouldn't want to fuse their favorite creatures together? Today I'm going to document my deckbuilding process from start to finish. Taking Command The first step in building a […]

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Precon Buyer’s Guide: Core Sets and the Rest!

Jay Kirkman — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:10:51 +0000

Jay's Buyer's Guide series comes to it's conclusion with Core Set, Duel Deck, and other limited release preconstructed products. Do you know which decks are steals and deals? Jay has all the details inside!

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Observing Odyssey, Part Two

Douglas Linn — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:55:41 +0000

Welcome back! We're finishing up Odyssey this week, leading into exploring the rest of the block for hidden gems. There's nothing like finding a dollar hiding in your junk rare box! Let's take a look at the remaining half of Odyssey! Lieutenant Kirtar Odyssey had a lot of bird themes to it that are still […]

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Magic: the Filibustering

Joshua Justice — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:00:56 +0000

With Pro Tour: Paris in the books and the Washington, D.C. Open coming up, Standard is currently in major flux, while Legacy seems to have stabilized somewhat from the last two Opens. Let's take this one format at a time. Caw-Blade is currently sitting pretty as the best deck in Standard thanks to the introduction […]

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MOAR CRADS! (Gassing Up)

David Lee — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:10:00 +0000

Being full of gas can be a bad thing but not in Commander! In this format the best of us run out of gas, miss land drops, and topdeck nothing but duds all game. This week David hits card advantage in Commander and how different types of card draw fulfill very different roles.

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