Torrential Gearhulk | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:51:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Torrential Gearhulk | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Arena Cube Draft | Adam Cohen https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/01/arena-cube-draft-adam-cohen/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/01/arena-cube-draft-adam-cohen/#respond Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=109025

Adam drafts a spicy Red-Black Aristocrats deck in the Magic: The Gathering Arena Cube.

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Join Chris Martin, Sam Lowe, and Chris O'Berry as they venture into the wild Frontier of the new Pioneer format! You won't want to miss these Historic picks.

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What is FOMO? How does it relate to MTG finance? How can we recognize it, minimize its effects, or even harness its power? Pat has got some thoughts on this one. Check it out!

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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 revisits one of the more powerful sets of recent memory. What's worth investing in moving forward?

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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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It's hard to keep track of the fast-moving Magic news cycle. Adam slows it down and covers everything crucial that you might have missed this week.

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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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Standard rotation and the official release of Guilds of Ravnica leave plenty of opportunity for speculators. Adam covers the exciting targets for the first week of new Standard.

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The Banned & Restricted announcement left Goblin Chainwhirler to continue its reign in Standard. David considers what this means for Standard speculation moving forward.

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Brian has stumbled onto some pretty great buys over the years purely thanks to casual Magic. Can we learn from noting what particular casual-format aficionados predict might be great?

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In the two Grand Prix events last weekend we saw the post-Pro Tour metagame beginning to evolve. Adrian covers the newcomers and discusses potential spec targets.

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Kyle's here with the breakdown of how the Pro Tour Dominaria results should impact MTGO prices moving forward.

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Adam identifies the Dominaria cards you might not realize are putting up results and that could offer high returns once they catch on.

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