Corbin Hosler recounts his experiences from Grand Prix Nashville, both on and off the trading floor!
Finance
Financial articles focus on buying, selling and trading Magic: The Gathering cards for fun and profit!
Corbin Hosler announces the first-ever MTG financial podcast and explores how to maximize your profits when selling cards, be it on the floor or online!
Is your stuff safe from thieves? Look into protecting it with an insurance policy.
After missing a week taking care of his wife and newborn, Sigmund has returned with some new perspective. What is going on with the Legacy format? Has it stagnated? Sigmund polls the readers for their thoughts.
Speculation and market investment in Magic is in its Golden Era right now. We have access to information at a speed that we never had before in Magic. If you’re spying for new tech, you don’t have to wait for a tournament report on the Dojo or read about it a month later in Inquest – you can hustle over to GGSlive and watch Kibler cast Huntmaster of the Fells in real-time. This article is about Magic speculation and price bubbles in what I am calling the “early modern” era.
Chad looks at Business Expenses in the second part of his series on taxes.
Tyler surveys the top 10 non-land Legacy legal cards in Magic, noting a few unsuspected cards fetching high price tags.
Part of speculation and long-term strategies involves making sure that your cash is doing the most work that it can. When your cards are not performing, you need to fire them and get some more productive cards on the line. This weekend at GP: Indy, I divested from several cards that I had been sitting on. The subtheme of my article is “win, lose or draw,” with a look at how an Eternal player confronts finite cash, broad possibilities and the desire to clean house.
Corbin Hosler reviews 10 cards from Core Sets in the last five years that you probably didn’t realize were as valuable as they are!
Most of you are readers of QuietSpeculation.com because you plan to leverage your knowledge of the financial world of Magic: The Gathering in a profitable way. This can mean a couple of different things to different portions of our readership. Tune in to see how it relates to you.
The Standard format is in constant flux. This makes for a competitive, exciting format. But it also means we have less assurance that the cards we acquire will hold value. Sigmund discusses how to balance your portfolio to best endure the upcoming Standard PTQ season.
You’ve browsed through Completed Listings on Ebay before, trying to get a read on what price you should bid for a card you’d like. There are eight or ten at a normal price, and then there’s one that went for far less than it should have. Sometimes this happens because the listing ended late at night; other times, it’s because an auction for the same item just ended and people might not have aggressively bid on two of the same card.
If you want to be the lucky person snagging those underpriced cards; if you want to assemble a collection while you sleep, with an hour a week worth of work; if you have the patience to wait out some great prices because “your door is always open,” then this article is for you.
Corbin Hosler breaks down the price changes to Modern staples since the turn of the year, delivering some interesting results!