Master Biomancer | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:46:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Master Biomancer | 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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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 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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It's easy to look at a price movement on paper and conclude that you've made a huge profit. David reminds us that nothing counts until we convert that card back to cash.

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Jason Alt weighs in on the crashed MOCS event and resulting hullabaloo, before discussing the Top 8 Legacy and Standard decks from the weekend.

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Danny launches into a full assessment of the current state of his trade binder, analyzing the directions he sees many cards going in the coming weeks and months.

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Danny breaks down the potential 4-drops that could see increased play in Standard post-rotation, picking his favorites as speculation targets.

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Mike Lanigan reports on his day-two tournament finish last weekend at the GP in his hometown of Pittsburgh, covering both Gatecrash Sealed and Draft.

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Ryan shares the heartbreaking story of a friend who placed 2nd in PTQ's on back-to-back weekends, and springboards from there into a conversation on special invites and the current ratings structure.

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Casual players get excited by vastly different cards than competitive players. Jared Elick discusses what types of cards to stock in your trade binder for this crowd.

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Matthew Lewis looks over each Gatecrash mythic in turn and evaluates its potential for gains at current prices.

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The Gatecrash Event Decks have been spoiled and everything is ruined. I kid, but things have certainly got more interesting. Thrive and Thrash — Gatecrash Event Deck Creatures 2 Acidic Slime4 Arbor Elf3 Borderland Ranger1 Deadeye Navigator1 Dungeon Geists2 Fog Bank1 Gruul Ragebeast2 Mist Raven1 Sphinx of Uthuun3 Strangleroot Geist1 Thragtusk1 Wolfir Silverheart1 Yeva, Nature's Herald […]

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Check in with Mathieu before hitting FNM and events this weekend to see which Gatecrash cards he suggests you pick up now, and which ones to out before they fall.

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Chad covers every Mythic in Gatecrash and gives you his opinion and analysis of each call.

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