Sylvain examines a critical component of any investment–time. Between the duration of the investment itself and the human labor required to implement it, time is one component you don’t want to underestimate when evaluating the performance of a spec.

Sigmund made some critical mistakes in his assessment of the Jeskai shard a couple weeks ago. This week he comes clean and analyzes his errors, highlighting a valuable lesson everyone could learn from.

Starting with mythics, this week Sylvain discusses which cards from M14 and Return to Ravnica may constitute a good investment after Standard rotates.

In this new chapter of his Nine Months of Portfolio Management, Sylvain discusses the poor decisions he made with Return to Ravnica block cards–the losing category of his portfolio–and explain what not to do with Standard positions.

David Schumann covers the juiciest RTR cards to target at rotation this year. These cards will be dropping like stones, and unlikely to be on most players’ minds.

Sylvain unveils the groundwork to his recent MTGO portfolio management experiment. What did he do with thousands of tix?

Sylvain Lehoux goes over his experiences speculating on Block from the last two years, and applies lessons to Journey Into Nyx.

Today Corbin looks at the casual cards he has been targeting recently, with an eye to long-term, but near-guaranteed, gains.

Danny shares tips on how he approaches spoiler season smartly.

In all the talk of Modern, Corbin doesn’t want to forget the most popular format–Standard. He looks at cards trending up and down.

Danny looks to RTR block for some casual spec standouts as the block prepares to rotate out of Standard later this year.

Jason Alt looks at the out-of-control hype that followed close on the heals of the PT, the Pro Tour itself, and results from SCG St. Louis.

Standard appears stagnant and unlikely to yield exciting spec opportunities right now, while Modern is ripe as ever for gains. Sigmund explains his current strategy.