titan breach | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:00:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png titan breach | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Ramp Decks: A Beginner’s Guide https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/02/ramp-decks-beginners-guide/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/02/ramp-decks-beginners-guide/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:00:05 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=13406 Nearly there! Welcome to the penultimate entry in the deck guides. Next week I'll finish up with the remaining deck types and we'll finally be done with all the archetypes of Modern! Then I'll finally be free to write about other, more topical things again. Ramp decks occupy a weird place in Magic. Arguably the […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/02/scg-regionals-2017-results/feed/ 5 Modern Metagame Breakdown: 9/1/16 – 9/30/16 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/10/modern-metagame-breakdown-sep-16/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/10/modern-metagame-breakdown-sep-16/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:27:55 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=11917 Last month we saw three major Modern Grand Prix around the world post a metagame breakdown that mirrored almost exactly the one established in July. Paradoxically, September had both far fewer high-profile events and much more significant shifts in share percentage. I believe these were the result of careful and systematic re-positioning by Modern players, with the intent […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/10/modern-metagame-breakdown-sep-16/feed/ 13 Modern Metagame Breakdown: 8/1/16 – 8/31/16 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/09/modern-metagame-breakdown-aug-16/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2016/09/modern-metagame-breakdown-aug-16/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:00:32 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=11613 Well, it may be painfully late, but it's here: the August Metagame Breakdown. This month we saw a rash of major events culminating in the triple Grand Prix weekend confirm what the metagame had tentatively established in July. There were no changes in the Tier 1 lineup from July to August, and we actually saw some […]

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