Nullify | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:31:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Nullify | 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 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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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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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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Mike Flores earned a PT invite this weekend with... Tribal Dragons?

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Adam shares the hottest deck to come out of this weekend's Regional Pro Tour Qualifiers, Five-Color Dragon Control, and explains what cards within will gain value this week.

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Ryan has been keeping a watchful eye on Standard in order to determine what a successful Standard deck needs to accomplish. Learn the three elements of the Standard metagame Ryan deems most important and how to beat them all!

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Ryan has blue on the brain. Find out his thoughts on how best to implement Master of Waves in Theros-Khans Standard!

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Pro Tour Khans of Tarkir was this Standard format's defining moment. Adam makes sense of everything that happened and what it means for the future.

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Ryan recounts a recent Sealed PTQ he played in, where he narrowly missed top 8.

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Danny details the ways he is able to use every part of the animal, when it comes to drafting with a mind for value.

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Born of the Gods is here and it definitely brought some eyebrow raising treasures along with it. Most sets come with a mailbag full of goodies, but Born of the Gods has done us a solid favor by making our options very obvious. Almost everyone has tossed their two cents into the hat about what […]

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