David begins the task of breaking down the non-rotating mythics to see where we might want to park some money leading into the fall rotation. The first stop: Ixalan.
David Schumann
David started playing Magic in the days of Fifth Edition, with a hiatus between Judgment to Shards. He's been playing Commander since 2009 and Legacy since 2010.
MTGStocks provides some valuable data on price movements if you know how to read it. David describes what to look for with price jumps to determine their cause.
The layout of your store may sound like a boring topic, but it has real implications for customer experience and sales. David looks at the best practices for game stores in this area.
When Reserved List appreciation is all but guaranteed, could taking out a loan to spec on them be profitable? David looks at a case study of someone who did just that.
Running a brick-and-mortar store presents a lot of pitfalls that can cost you business. David looks at some practices to avoid that commonly plague Magic stores.
The Banned & Restricted announcement left Goblin Chainwhirler to continue its reign in Standard. David considers what this means for Standard speculation moving forward.
Today David talks Arcades, the Strategist and defender creatures. The spoiling of the new Doran variant opens up many possibilities for specs on older cards.
David goes through a quarterly report on his speculation endeavors for the first part of 2018, providing some concrete metrics to measure his success rate.
Modern has taught us future demand can be hard to predict—and profitable if you do. Today David talks theory, and about the value of being ahead of the market curve.
Battlebond presents some juicy reprints as potential pickups. David looks back to Conspiracy to get an idea of how their prices will behave, and the best time for pickup.
Just because Wizards can print any card off the Reserved List, that doesn’t mean they will. David looks at the textless Magic Player Rewards cards and discusses their value as specs.
Buyouts don’t affect English and foreign language cards equally. David looks at the recent spikes in Reserved List cards, and discusses where foreign copies may be the play.
David investigates how the fear of missing out has impacted the course of buyouts in the Magic market, along with some concrete examples.
