Shelldock Isle | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:25:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Shelldock Isle | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Theros Beyond Death Defines the Metagame and the Market https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/02/theros-beyond-death-defines-the-metagame-and-the-market/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/02/theros-beyond-death-defines-the-metagame-and-the-market/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00:29 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=94801

Theros Beyond Death's broken Thassa's Oracle and Underworld Breach have taken over every metagame - and the market.

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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 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 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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Rob talks about a casual card that might be on the rise for some competitive play exposure.

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Rob has been mesmerized by this orb. Check out why!

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Mike Lanigan presents a swath of interesting and powerful decks in Tiny Leaders as an introduction to the format. You'll have to be prepared to face these staple generals.

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How hard could it be to mill 42 cards?

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The commanders in Innistrad all state they're not dead. Jules digs to the bottom of this.

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Cube systems? How do they work?

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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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