Confession time: I’m a Cheeri0s guy. No, not the cereal, although I’ve been known to start off the day with a bowl of Honey Nut goodness. I’m talking about Modern Cheeri0s, the speediest combo deck in the format. The blistering fast engine combo has been my back-burner deck since 2013 when Paladin was running solo. Then Aether […]
Over the past couple months, various cards from a certain set have been quietly hitting all-time highs while no one was watching. Sig investigates.
Smart speculation begins with gathering information. David shares some of his favorite sources for MTG price and metagame data across the web.
Kaladesh block has been very intriguing. There have been a lot of cards and even new decks that looked Modern-playable, and yet the impact so far has been limited. I’m not sure if that is the fault of misplaced expectations or the cards themselves, but only Blossoming Defense has had a noticeable impact. The enemy fastlands […]
In both stocks and Magic, Sig usually prefers the big-picture approach. This week he zeros in on the details, identifying specific cards he has eyes on for profits.
Matthew Lewis presents the MTGO Market Report for this week, evaluating important events in the online market and highlighting a âtrade of the week.â
It’s easy to look at a price movement on paper and conclude that you’ve made a huge profit. David reminds us that nothing counts until we convert that card back to cash.
Aggregate data can provide a lot of insight into general trends in Magic finance. Today Niels presents some graphs taken from Trader Tools data and analyzes what they mean.
Every few weeks after a Modern Nexus metagame update, I start to get a little restless. I spend nights prowling sites like mtgtop8 trying to form my own metagame picture. Even if local metagames are slow to change, and those are the ones I play in the most thanks to their ubiquity, I always like […]
Alternate win conditions provide an interesting case study for analyzing a specific category of cards. Niels looks in depth at the prices of this subset of cards.
The printing of new commanders can increase demand for old cards that pair well with them. David looks at the four-color commanders to see what may be primed for a jump.
Every spoiler season, you can catch me looking over the new cards and imagining how they line up in Modern. “I wonder if this card could work?” Invariably, I’ll make a bunch of lists and bring them to battle on Cockatrice. I lose. I fix the list. I lose some more. After a full day of […]
Casey Stewart is an entrepreneur who’s re-shaping the MTGO economy. In this interview he shares his thoughts on the MTGO market, botting as a business, price setting, and more.
