Quirion Ranger | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:01:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Quirion Ranger | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Real-world Flavor: Green’s Philosophy in Citations https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/06/real-world-flavor-greens-philosophy-in-citations/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/06/real-world-flavor-greens-philosophy-in-citations/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=114833

Francesco concludes his study of the philosophies of the colors with Green. What defines the color Green? Is there more to the color than just mana?

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/06/real-world-flavor-greens-philosophy-in-citations/feed/ 0 MH2 Overview, Pt. 1: Home Cooking https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/06/mh2-overview-pt-1-home-cooking/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/06/mh2-overview-pt-1-home-cooking/#respond Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:00:27 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=23063 The bars are opening, and with them, certain among the FNM registry's many stinky basements. In other words, it's officially Christmas. And if you don't celebrate Christmas, well, it's time to start: Modern Horizons 2 is fully spoiled as of yesterday! On that note, I'm thrilled to welcome you, fellow Modern fanatic, to the first […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/06/mh2-overview-pt-1-home-cooking/feed/ 0 Wild Speculation: MH2 Speculation, Part 2 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/12/wild-speculation-mh2-speculation-part-2/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/12/wild-speculation-mh2-speculation-part-2/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:00:19 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22446 With the metagame update done, that ends the heavy content for 2020. It's time to coast to the finish! I think we've all earned a nice easy December considering how 2020's gone, so going into the new year, let's destress and remember what hope felt like. I miss FNM. To that end, I'll be picking […]

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Eddie has decided to take a break from writing, but not before leaving us with one more article. Today he discusses Mythic Championship Cleveland and the London mulligan rule.

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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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Chris is excited about the new generals emerging from Ravnica Allegiance and has some ideas on capitalizing on their printings.

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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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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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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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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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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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Eddie weighs in on the latest developments in the finance world, from Guilds of Ravnica, to Worlds, to an odd new combo deck in Modern featuring Runaway Steam-Kin.

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This week has a nice focus on lands, but we're not referring to the Legacy deck. Eddie also starts touching on Guilds of Ravnica spoilers.

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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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It's business as usual on the QS Cast! Join Tarkan and Chaz for this week's Podcast.

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After seeing more Pauper cards spike last week, Sig realized he was missing out on some real profits. Now he is applying his TCGplayer methodology to try and get ahead of the next buyout.

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This week, David breaks down a few format staples for five major formats, compares their buylist prices from five top stores, and draws a number of conclusions from the data. If you like getting deep into the numbers, this article is for you.

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