Stensia Bloodhall | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Stensia Bloodhall | 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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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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Mike Lanigan unveils a recent build of BWR Midrange, a well-positioned in the Standard metagame, and compares it with some other similar builds.

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Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.

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Bloodline Keeper in Standard? Mike Lanigan shows you how and why.

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Jason Schousboe managed to take down the Iowa PTQ last weekend and score some free airfare to a quaint little burgh in the Pacific called Honolulu. Read on to hear his report.

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What's a Prerelease like when you have to debate whether to open booster packs in your own language or not? Neale shares a father-son outing of an epic adventure through Innistrad!

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Carlos covers the Commander cards you should be caring about, Innistrad Style!

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So, here is the third part of Ryan's review of Innistrad. That is a SWEET review you might say. THE END.

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Joshua Justice takes a closer look at rares mythics and playable commons and uncommons with his set review of Innistrad.

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