Planar Bridge | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:05:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Planar Bridge | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Insider: QS Cast #119 – Invitational Success [Unlocked] https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/04/insider-qs-cast-119-invitational-success-unlocked/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/04/insider-qs-cast-119-invitational-success-unlocked/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:39:20 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=92564

The QS Cast reflects on the success of the Magic Invitational. They dive deeper into it's impact on the game and it's market!

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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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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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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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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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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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Rob would love to collect copies of this card before it gets out of reach.

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Chris is back to identify some cards with real potential for short- and long-term gains as we approach rotation.

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Now that mythic prices are starting to settle down, Brian is starting to target Rivals of Ixalan cards for Commander. Here are his picks for the most underrated ones.

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After a few years, we have some concrete data to compare and contrast the Masterpieces. David breaks down what we know to see which are attractively priced.

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Matthew Lewis presents the MTGO Market Report for this week, evaluating important events in the online market and highlighting a “trade of the week.”

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Welcome back, readers! I've been doing a lot more macro-level stuff recently, and I felt it was time to jump back down to the micro level (i.e. single card) speculation discussion. What prompted me, you might ask?   These two Inventions flipped the switch on that part of my brain that loves Commander brewing. Wow. These last […]

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The last two Kaladesh Inventions have been revealed!

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