Mardu Strike Leader | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:29:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Mardu Strike Leader | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Case Against Power https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:20 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=91686

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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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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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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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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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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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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Standard continues to deliver on the innovation front with GP Kobe last weekend. Mike picks apart some of the interesting decks from the event and presents his own build of B/W.

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Ryan has searched Standard for some potentially undervalued cards going into the Pro Tour this weekend. Find out which cards he thinks are worth watching!

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Danny Brown looks ahead to next fall by considering what we know about Battle for Zendikar so far. Can we make any guesses about possible breakout cards or strategies?

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Ryan played a ton of Dragons of Tarkir sealed this weekend. Take a look at the decks he played and find out what he learned about the format!

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Tomaharu Saito took a new take on a deck previously deemed unplayable to a 20th place finish at GP Memphis. Check out the changes he made to revitalize Monoblack Aggro!

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Derek recaps the results of his Fate Reforged box opening project and points out some potential winners from the lukewarm Modern metagame being established this last weekend at Pro Tour Fate Reforged.

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Mike Lanigan presents his set review of Fate Reforged, with a Top 10 list of cards to impact Standard and Modern, as well as Honorable Mentions and some closing thoughts on finance.

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Derek takes a look at the cards in and around Fate Reforged that will have the most room for growth after the set is released.

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Come see all our Fate Reforged spoiler coverage Mardu Strike Leader 2B Creature - Human Warrior Whenever Mardu Strike Leader attacks, put a 2/1 black Warrior creature token onto the battlefield. Dash 3B (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to […]

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Come see all our Fate Reforged spoiler coverage Brutal Hordechief This cycle is shaping up to be a little less exciting than the rare cycle. That is likely because they're not legendary, I guess. Still, as much as this would be better as a general in a three color deck, this trigger can put games […]

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