Sprout Swarm | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:59:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Sprout Swarm | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Magical Creatures: Homarids, Thrulls and Co. https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/magical-creatures-homarids-thrulls-and-co/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/magical-creatures-homarids-thrulls-and-co/#respond Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=116645

Francesco explores the new creature types introduced with Fallen Empires. What's the difference between Homarid and Thrull? What about Orgg and Saproling?

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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 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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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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Julian Biondillo shares another Commander deck, this time a green-white Trostani deck built around tokens.

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Basically, spoilers have gone one of two ways recently. Either the entire set is spoiled early, the surprise is ruined and people get banned (or maybe that was just New Phyrexia), or Wizards keeps tight control of the spoilers and rolls them out a little at a time. But we may have a chink in the […]

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Jason Alt discusses the latest self-fulfilling finance prophecies to come true of late, then jumps into decklists from GP Kansas City and SCG Worchester.

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Jason suggests keeping abreast of the metagame may provide a lot of insight into speculation targets, then (conveniently) covers decks from the weekend.

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The recent spoiling of Beck//Call has already impacted Modern prices and is sure to make more waves. Corbin discusses which cards are still ripe to benefit.

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Witness the unveiling of Ryan's pauper cube list and see if it inspires you to join in the awesomeness.

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Neale lines up a howling good time without laying a finger on a Werewolf. It's new-school Commander all the way!

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How may bad commander choices can you name? Jules says there really isn't any! See how he breaks down crafting decks, and why you should consider something a little more unconventional!

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Chris Ross, a Seattle Magic Veteran, brings his style and thoughts to you about the Pauper format on MTGO.

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