preypiercer | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 26 May 2020 16:00:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png preypiercer | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Companion Modern: Consistency vs. Certainty https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/05/companion-modern-consistency-vs-certainty/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/05/companion-modern-consistency-vs-certainty/#respond Tue, 26 May 2020 16:00:25 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=21740 Another week of data, another update to the Ikoria metagame. The trends had been moving towards companion stabilizing in Modern. Last week, the individual companion cards seemed volatile in terms of usage, but the mechanic itself appeared to have achieved saturation. We observed some signs suggesting that companions might be been fading in Modern, which […]

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