Undercity Informer | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:46:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Undercity Informer | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 February 15, 2021 Banned and Restricted Announcement Thoughts and Analysis https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/february-15-2021-banned-and-restricted-announcement-thoughts-and-analysis/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/february-15-2021-banned-and-restricted-announcement-thoughts-and-analysis/#respond Mon, 15 Feb 2021 23:16:28 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=97339

Wizards just announced a swath of exciting bans hitting Historic, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage. Today, Joe takes a look at the bannings, celebrates Oko finally leaving Legacy, and discusses what these bans could mean for the MTG Finance world.

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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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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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Jason Alt examines the recent hullabaloo over price jumps and surveys the world of GPs and SCG Opens for innovative decklists.

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Mathieu has his eye on a number of cards that will be essential for combo decks in Modern this PTQ season. He even has a few picks for combo in Standard, including a few about to arrive in Gatecrash.

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