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I Put All Modern’s Best Cards into One Deck and It’s Sick

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Modern has finally achieved critical mass... of legends! Mox Amber holds together a five-color pile that can grind out anything with its top-down engine-focus.

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Not “The One:” Assessing Tales of Middle Earth for Modern

David Ernenwein — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The new straight-to-Modern set is flavorful, but a bit underwhelming for the format. Still, David's found a card that's going right into his Modern decks.

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So Wrong It’s Right: Are Misprints Undervalued… or Overpriced?

Joe Mauri — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Beardy outlines the common types of Magic misprints and offers tips on how to turn a profit from that knowledge... but not all misprints are worth collecting!

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Not Quite There: A Tameshi Testing Tale

David Ernenwein — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0000

David sees real potential in Tameshi, Reality Architect, and tries breaking the Wizard for Modern in a plethora of combo and value shells.

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March 9th 2020 Banned and Restricted Announcement

Sam Lowe — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:00:55 +0000

Sam's back from his hiatus to analyze the post-ban landscape! Find out what he's been up to, and where he finds himself in the current Magic market.

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Jan ’20 Brew Report: Amberning Up

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:00:53 +0000

It's a whole new Modern, but we've got some unfinished business to take care of. Sure, some of the following lists are from after the Oko ban. Others, before. But all of them are from this month, which saw some really neat developments! Simic Urza Don't call it a comeback! Simic Urza may have lost […]

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Three Exciting Catalysts for the Market

Sigmund Ausfresser — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:00:43 +0000

In general, the past few weeks have been fairly dull for Magic finance. But that's about to change. This week Sig shares three catalysts he thinks will shake up the market and create opportunities to make some money.

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Getting Started in MTG Finance

Patrick Lienemann — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:15:51 +0000

In Pat's debut article for QS, he discusses the broad differences between short- and long-term specs, how to identify trends before spikes, and closes with a few predictions.

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Speculating on War of the Spark and Modern Horizons

Adam Yurchick — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:00:41 +0000

War of the Spark is creating opportunities in the Standard market and beyond, and Modern Horizons is set to revolutionize Modern. Adam looks at some cards that stand to benefit.

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Three Rules to Spend Less Time on MTG Finance

Sigmund Ausfresser — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:00:22 +0000

It's easy to get distracted by the constant news and rumors surrounding Magic. Sig shares three simple rules to help you remain focused and avoid sinking excess time into Magic finance.

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MTG Metagame Finance #32

Edward Eng — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:30:11 +0000

Eddie has decided to take a break from writing, but not before leaving us with one more article. Today he discusses Mythic Championship Cleveland and the London mulligan rule.

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Learning from One Year of Online Sales Data

David Schumann — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:00:53 +0000

David has a year of tracked data to cover. What insights can we get from this?

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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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Chris’s Commander Corner: 2019 Edition

Christopher Martin — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:00:03 +0000

Chris reflects on the new year with a new scale for evaluating Commander specs. He lays out the approach he'll be using moving forward and applies it to several cards.

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Insider: Speculating Around Ravnica Allegiance Spoilers

Adam Yurchick — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:00:45 +0000

Speculating on pre-orders is tough battle. Today Adam shares how to capitalize on new spoilers by instead buying existing cards that benefit from them.

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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 Metagame Finance #23 (Free Giveaway #2!)

Edward Eng — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:00:16 +0000

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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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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Preparing for the December 6th Announcement

Kyle Rusciano — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:37:50 +0000

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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