Sideboard | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:00:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Sideboard | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Building a Sideboard Redux: 2020’s New Rules https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/09/building-sideboard-redux-2020s-new-rules/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/09/building-sideboard-redux-2020s-new-rules/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:00:56 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22196 Time waits for no man, as they say, and Magic is the same for all players. Good advice will always be good advice, but relevance is relative. By the same token, Magic players need advice that is relevant to formats as they actually exist. And that must be re-evaluated periodically. The second Beginner's Guide article […]

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UndyingMTG returns with a look at four cards in Pioneer that you need to consider picking up!

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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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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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This week, Eddie takes a deeper look into how Ravnica Allegiance is starting to affect all formats, along with his resulting portfolio updates.

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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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The SCG Dallas Open showcased some interesting developments in several formats. Eddie takes stock of new technology and logs the changes to his portfolio in response.

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Rob's not a fan of this card. Read more here to find out why!

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Nothing is harder to see than the obvious. This is the problem of teaching Magic to new players. Whether you humiliatingly miss an on-board win, or your "missing" keys are on the table right in front of you, it happens to everyone. It can even apply to knowledge. It is easy to forget how daunting […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/11/repositioning-counterboarding-beginners-guide/feed/ 0 You’ve Got Another Thing Coming: Building Sideboards in an Open Meta https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/11/another-thing-coming-building-sideboards-open-meta/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/11/another-thing-coming-building-sideboards-open-meta/#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:40:28 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=16251 Modern remains wide-open, which carries implications for deckbuilding. Last week, I talked about mainboard flex slots. This week, we’ll tackle a significantly thornier topic: sideboarding. Due to Modern's wide variety of linear decks, and the relative lack of powerful catch-all answers that you see in formats like Legacy or Vintage, ours is a format that puts […]

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Mike's here today with both buylisting and tournament reports from GP Pittsburgh.

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Not every tournament is going to go your way. Sometimes no matter how well prepared you are or how well you play you just can't win. That does not mean that the tournament is a failure as long as you utilize it well. Every game you play is an opportunity to learn something. Something about your […]

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