Spirit Mantle | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:40:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Spirit Mantle | 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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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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Rob starts the week with a look at an old reliable on the Daily Stock Watch!

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Rob talks about one of the more resurgent cards in Modern right now. Read more about it here!

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Rob starts the week with his new spec target from Masters 25!

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Mike dives deep on Planechase Anthology!

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We're soon to enter that strange limbo time in Standard when both core sets contribute to a brewer's paradise. Jason Alt asks how to take advantage of this pre-rotation mayhem.

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Hornet Nest Holy Flavor Bombs, Batman! Although flavor-laden, I don't know if the fact that the number of hornets you get scales with damage justifies this being printed at rare. Roc Egg was a fine card, not too powerful, but a very solid draft pick mid-pack. Is this so much better than Roc Egg that […]

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David Schumann sifts through Born of the Gods spoilers for cards that may impact Legacy, Modern and Commander.

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Jay continues building a Standard cube, and looks at options available for white enchantments!

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Neale's back with the biggest and baddest decks ever to stack up to 99 cards! Today's competitive Commander deck update featuress Jhoria, Azami, Zur, and more!

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2011/07/top-competitive-archetypes-in-commander-an-update-part-i/feed/ 6 M12 Commander Financial Analysis (Part 1) https://www.quietspeculation.com/2011/07/m12-commander-financial-analysis-part-1/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2011/07/m12-commander-financial-analysis-part-1/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:12:54 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=18075 It's a Commander review of Magic 2012, but it isn't. It's got Standard and Legacy, but doesn't. It's by Ryan, an indisputable fact. What it will do is help you be prepared for this Friday's Release trading!

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