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Five Good Opportunities in Reserved List Foils

Mauro Acerenza — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

This week Mauro explores the history of Reserved List foils, their prices, and some current opportunities for investment.

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The Case Against Power

David Schumann — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:20 +0000

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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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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Hold ‘Em & Fold ‘Em #20

Edward Eng — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:15:32 +0000

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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Insider: Using Best-Sellers to Predict the Next Reserved List Spike

Adam Yurchick — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:25:15 +0000

Today Adam uses TCGplayer's ability to sort sets in order of best-selling to identify what reserved list cards are selling and might be due for a spike.

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Insider: Looking at Reserved List Judge Foils

David Schumann — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:30:54 +0000

Reserved List plus judge foil? This combination is clearly a recipe for high prices, but some of the cards out there are cheaper than you'd expect. David investigates.

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Insider: Commander, Modern, and Reserved List Foil Spikes

Adam Yurchick — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:56:14 +0000

There have been some big price movements across formats this week, so Adam explains what's going on...

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Insider: #PTOGW Day 1 Considerations

Chaz V — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:15:16 +0000

Hello everyone! Wanted to chime in with a brief update on the morning of #PTOGW with some notes and considerations as we enter the Modern portion later in the day. Everything certainly seems wide open at this point, as the format reflects no true solidified deck-lists currently. We can only speculate on what will or […]

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Insider: Early Pro Tour Indicators & More Modern Movement

Chaz V — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:00:20 +0000

Chaz takes a look at the post-banning landscape in Modern using data from Magic-League, before addressing the latest round of Modern spikes.

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Insider: Weekend Recap – Dragons over Krakow

Douglas Linn — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:00:44 +0000

If you had any doubts of whether we'd see more Dragons after the Pro Tour, check out this weekend's tournament results, including both GP: Kraków and SCG.

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Insider: Transformation – Lessons From the Best Sideboards in History

Adam Yurchick — Fri, 30 May 2014 09:00:08 +0000

Adam explains the art and science behind transformational sideboards using two historic combo decks, and discusses how the strategy applies today. Don't miss this article!

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Insider: Journey Into Nyx Top 10

Mike Lanigan — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:00:41 +0000

Mike Lanigan reviews Journey Into Nyx with his pick for the top ten cards most likely to impact Standard.

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A Colorful Standard: Monoblack is Dead or Long Live Monoblack?

Ryan Overturf — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:05:08 +0000

In response to purrs of Monoblack's revival, Ryan reviews the color wheel and the distribution of card strength amongst the colors in the Standard environment.

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Commander Deck Tech: Sol’Kanar the Swamp King

Robert Davis — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:08:58 +0000

Sol'Kanar is firmly three colors, right? Robert takes us on a brief journey through the world of a monocolored deck for a multicolored Commander! Swamps lie ahead!

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Vampires 2.0

Mike Lanigan — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:21:51 +0000

Mike Lanigan discusses the impact of the cards of New Phyrexia on Standard's Vampire archetype.

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New Cube, New Phyrexia

Anthony Avitollo — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:05:48 +0000

Anthony Avitollo, our resident cube master, breaks down or completely blasts some of the best (and overhyped cards) for cubes from New Phyrexia!

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Our New Overlords!

Stephen Moss — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:45:22 +0000

So I'll make it easy and just jump on the bandwagon, and bow before our new Phyrexian Overlords! Hooray! Actually I'm more excited about it all because this means its crash time in the financial and speculation community. New sets always give some of the freshest margins as we begin figuring out what to buy […]

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Magic: the Filibustering

Joshua Justice — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:00:56 +0000

With Pro Tour: Paris in the books and the Washington, D.C. Open coming up, Standard is currently in major flux, while Legacy seems to have stabilized somewhat from the last two Opens. Let's take this one format at a time. Caw-Blade is currently sitting pretty as the best deck in Standard thanks to the introduction […]

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