Chad delivers a timely refresher on what’s about to happen with your Magic stock.
Finance
Financial articles focus on buying, selling and trading Magic: The Gathering cards for fun and profit!
Dealing in the obscure can lead to significant profits, but there are added risks associated. Sigmund discusses the best circumstances for acquiring and unloading Magic oddities.
Rise of the Eldrazi is the Timmy dream set. It’s what you’d get if you built a set with the premise of “no rush till turn 7” and packed mana accelerants in everything. The set is based around the Eldrazi, giant and evil old legends that awaken on Zendikar. There’s a little bit of plot to this set, but mostly people remember weird drafts and a couple really big monsters.
Corbin looks back at trades he made years ago and finds out how those trades look today and what lessons can be learned from them!
Which packs should you be opening right now and which should you avoid? When choosing your prizes for local gaming store tournaments, make sure you get the best return and learn what Chad found from running the hard numbers on all Standard legal boosters.
Sigmund deviates from the weekly recommendations and observations and instead discusses how MTG Finance is in itself as enjoyable as tapping lands. Read how this aspect of the game allows him to stay involved even when playing isn’t always an option.
I’d like to think that this is Abraham Lincoln’s calls, like the Great Emancipator has reached out from beyond space and time to tell us what to grab in Modern. How plain, then, that this is about the best cards to watch, to pick up, and to ditch in the wake of Grand Prix: Lincoln.
Corbin Hosler reviews his financial predictions for Innistrad and breaks down how he did!
Carl returns with astute observations regarding Dark Ascension. Is the the set really similar to Worldwake?
Did you take advantage of the QS calls this past weekend? Chad reviews the settling dust and preps for another weekend of high-reward possibilities.
Pro Tour Honolulu coverage was rampant this past weekend. SCG Cincinnati exceeded 600 players in Standard! Sigmund attempts to digest all this information and talks about how to proceed from here, reflecting on the calls QS aired this past weekend.
Worldwake is most iconic for Jace, The Mindsculptor, so let’s get that out of the way at the beginning. WWK has so much more going for it (okay, beyond just Stoneforge Mystic). Worldwake has several good-value rares and mythic rares, and thanks to how it was drafted, those cards will be worth more because so few were opened. Here’s what happened…