Thunder Spirit | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 23 Feb 2022 06:34:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Thunder Spirit | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Real-world Flavor. Fantastic Beasts from Literature to Magic https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/02/real-world-flavor-fantastic-beasts-from-literature-to-magic/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/02/real-world-flavor-fantastic-beasts-from-literature-to-magic/#respond Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=111489

Francesco analyzes the flavor texts of several of the fantastic creatures from Magic whose descriptions all come from real-world literature.

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2019 has been a tough year to be holding Old School cards, to put it mildly. As prices equilibrate, Sig is slowly making new acquisitions for his collection. Will this be a brighter year for card prices? Or will they continue to stagnate? This week, Sig shares his take.

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While it's true the Old School market has been particularly soft this season, some vendors have overdone their price cutting. The result: many deals are out there on major retailer sites...if you know where to look and can catch a restock.

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While the stock market breaks records, many components of the Magic market are well off of their highs. This has created some real buying opportunities. This week Sig shares some of his favorite pick-ups as well as where to buy them at the best price.

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Sig has recently accepted the fact that he has a problem: he's spending too much time on his smartphone, ignoring the world around him. This week, Sig uses Jeremy's Grab Bag sale as a case study as he explores ways to cut down on time wasted on MTG finance.

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Recently Sig ran a controversial poll on Twitter: Is Power 9 a good investment? Today he shares his analysis and sentiment regarding this deceptively complicated question.

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We've all been waiting for tax refunds to kick in and restimulate the market. Well, that time is upon us. Sig has three strategies to keep in mind when putting new capital to work.

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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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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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Several months ago Brian laid out a scheme for classifying Old School cards by tier of playability. Today he discusses the price movement we're starting to see in the third tier.

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This weekend Sig found a sweet deal for a high-end card at half the market price! His luck is the product of a subtle, persistent strategy for finding underpriced cards, which he shares in detail.

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Ryan is lukewarm on investing in "no Reserved List" Eternal, but has some ideas on how to remedy the proposed format's problems. It all boils down to presentation.

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