Mindcrank | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:46:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Mindcrank | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Throne of Eldraine Commander Specs https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/09/throne-of-eldraine-commander-specs/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/09/throne-of-eldraine-commander-specs/#comments Sun, 08 Sep 2019 01:53:28 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=93812

Throne of Eldraine is shaping up to be a big set for Commander, and Adam is here with what it means for the market.

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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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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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Rob thinks that it's not yet time for this guy and the zombie apocalypse. Take a look why.

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Mike Lanigan presents a swath of interesting and powerful decks in Tiny Leaders as an introduction to the format. You'll have to be prepared to face these staple generals.

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How hard could it be to mill 42 cards?

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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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Mathieu has his eye on a number of cards that will be essential for combo decks in Modern this PTQ season. He even has a few picks for combo in Standard, including a few about to arrive in Gatecrash.

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Mathieu lays out a groundwork for building your speculation binder with uncommons, including some spicy targets for doing so with Gatecrash cards.

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The new Commander cards: Wizards tested, player approved? Jules walks us through taking the new cards in Magic through paces in places, both expected and not! How are you going to use your cards?

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In the third and final installment of his design review of New Phyrexia, Gregory discusses the Green and Artifact cards.

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With a new format becoming available for the first time Friday, it's time to take a quick look at what's available. For the most part, these will be aggro or combo decks, since control decks need to be built towards the metagame. As it stands, Caw-Blade is the premiere control deck in the format, and it can be played as-is with the mere addition of Batterskull.

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