Sword of Light and Shadow | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:50:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Sword of Light and Shadow | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Good Times and Valuable Reflections from a Home-Made GP https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/08/good-times-and-valuable-reflections-from-a-home-made-gp/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/08/good-times-and-valuable-reflections-from-a-home-made-gp/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=117688

This week Rob reflects on a small tournament he organized and the lessons learned from each of the three draft formats it included.

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Despite being covered in the past, one of the most frequent questions in the QS Insider Discord is on how to exit ABUGames store credit. Sig is always evolving his strategy with ABUGames, and this week he provides specific updates on how he's leveraging this buylist arbitrage.

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/09/abugames-credit-arbitrage-an-update/feed/ 0 Reforging the Fire: Introducing Goyfblade https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/09/reforging-fire-introducing-goyfblade/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/09/reforging-fire-introducing-goyfblade/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:19:31 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=20632 With the August 26 banning announcement, Hogaak was exiled from Modern, to the aplomb of pundits. Many were also pleased with Wizards's other decision: to axe Faithless Looting. This change affected me differently—not only had I recently spliced Looting into Counter-Cat, the card had always formed the backbone of GRx Moon, a longstanding pet project of […]

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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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Chris makes his QS debut with an insider's analysis of Stoneforge Mystic and its cyclical price history.

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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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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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Hello, everybody and welcome to a new week of the Daily Stock Watch! Standard cards are starting to move in the wake of new brews with cards from Guild of Ravnica, and we're all but ready to see which deck will be the new Black Red Midrange (arguably the best deck from last season) of […]

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Rob is not so high on this wonderful equipment from Commander. Read more about it here!

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David continues his exploration of judge foils by expanding the search to non-Reserved List options. Several present low multipliers that could be enticing.

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After a few years, we have some concrete data to compare and contrast the Masterpieces. David breaks down what we know to see which are attractively priced.

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If you like durdling with cantrips but aren't a blue mage, then Glissa, the Traitor is the Tiny Leader for you!

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Chaz releases another great list for Insiders, covering a wide range of cards not reprinted in Modern Masters 2015. There's some great information, and potential investment opportunities to be had!

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