Ulamog’s Nullifier | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:21:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Ulamog’s Nullifier | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The Case Against Power https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/the-case-against-power/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:20 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=91686

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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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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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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Chaz Volpe presents the games and postmortem for the Grixis Stagnation deck in another installment of the Scrap Savant series.

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Scrap Savant is back for the Holiday Edition, this time with Sire of Insanity! Chaz goes over the poll results and presents the initial decklist.

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Doug discusses the broad contours of new Standard that he's discerned from testing so far. He explains what his team has found and presents a few picks for gains.

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Commons and Uncommons are an unlikely source of revenue, but they can really help to pad your collection and your margins.  People always need them and seem to have a mental block about getting and keeping them.  They take almost no effort to acquire, and often people will just give them away. I like to […]

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I love to brew. The big fall set release is my favorite time of year because all bets are off. The oppressive Theros block is gone, replaced by a quirky, powered-up group of creepy tentacle aliens and their dire enemies, “the rest of the world”. I’m really exited by the set so far, but there […]

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Every once in a while at a prerelease, there is a color or faction to pick and it isn't particularly close. Ever since "seeded" packs became a thing, players began theorycrafting trying to see which box to pick to give them the edge. Sure, you get 5 random packs, but that one seeded pack will […]

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