Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:54:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius | 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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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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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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Matthew Lewis presents the final part of his analysis of foil mythics on MTGO--how to build a portfoilio centered around foil mythics to generate significant revenue.

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In this new chapter of his Nine Months of Portfolio Management, Sylvain discusses the poor decisions he made with Return to Ravnica block cards--the losing category of his portfolio--and explain what not to do with Standard positions.

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Some trends in Magic real estate are easy to predict, while some are trickier. Corbin Hosler surveys the current state of staple lands in Modern and Standard.

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Danny shares tips on how he approaches spoiler season smartly.

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Check out the Journey Into Nyx Spoilers on our official [JOU] Mini-Site!   We've now seen another of the gods from Journey into Nyx, and again we aren't disappointed. Much like his R/W buddy, Keranos is extremely powerful. There's no that all the gods have delivered so far (okay, maybe not Ephara), and Keranos is no […]

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Check out the Journey Into Nyx Spoilers on our official [JOU] Mini-Site! This cycle of Gods is really shaping up. In a vacuum I really like Keranos an awful lot. But I feel like this is a card like Phenax and it probably will suffer due to a lack of a deck to go in. […]

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What should you be doing with cards you aren't playing with? Danny confronts this issue as it pertains to his own substantial collection.

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Gervaise muses about what lessons Magic speculators can learn from real-life experiences.

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David Schumann outlines his current speculative holdings and the reasoning behind them. Part one is this week and part two is next week.

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Jason Alt discusses the collective lack of wisdom on Voice of Resurgence and asks what we can learn from it.

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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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Jason continues his discussion of Gatecrash-free Gatecrash speculation, and surveys the newest iteration of the metagame around the world.

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Reflecting on one's past work is a great way to learn, so why not critique that of others? This week Chad and Corbin review each other's RtR set reviews to highlight all of the best hits and misses.

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Which Return to Ravnica mythic rares make the best speculation targets on MTGO right now? Read on for Matthew's analysis and rating of every mythic in the new set.

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