transformational sideboard | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:00:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png transformational sideboard | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Trouble with Tibalt: A Case Study https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/trouble-with-tibalt-case-study/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/trouble-with-tibalt-case-study/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:00:44 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22660 It's always interesting to see how spoiler predictions play out. You can have all the experience in the world with which to judge a card, but miss some corner interaction that just blows up. Or there's an application that you never considered. The only constant is that predictions will be off and there will be […]

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