Polymorphist’s Jest | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:33:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Polymorphist’s Jest | 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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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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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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Morgan's here to cover today's Commander 2017 deck review: Arcane Wizardry.

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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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It's time for the set review review again. This week Corbin Hosler assesses his calls from M15 to see how his predictions panned out.

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After establishing a successful strategy to invest in core set mythics, Sylvain explains the strategy he intends to apply to M15 rares based on the price evolution of M14 rares this past year.

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Adam breaks down the entire M15 spoiler and identifies what cards are most likely to see play in Standard sideboards!

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Mike Langian continues his review of M15 for Standard, covering blue and white. Be sure to tune in next week for the final section!

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M15 will soon be upon us, and everyone and their mother is getting their set reviews out. Since you're reading my article on the finance site I write for, I'm going to take a wild guess that you'd be interested in Brainstorm Brewery's financial set review of M15 with special guest Sheldon Menery. It's going […]

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