With Standard in a state of constant flux, powerful cards are sometimes lost in the mix and forgotten. Mike Lanigan looks at ten underplayed cards that you should consider in your next 75.
Doomed Traveler
Jason Alt explains what we can learn about Modern Masters from reddit and dissects results from GP Guadalajara and SCG Dallas.
Mike Lanigan analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a version of The Aristocrats he played at a recent PTQ, and suggests a few alterations.
This week Jason Alt discusses trading in the smart phone era, GP Strasbourg and SCG Milwaukee.
When we’re in a Magic slump, it can be helpful to go back to the drawing board. Mike Lanigan explains how to challenge your own assumptions about a metagame or deck.
Mike Lanigan surveys the recent field of tier-one Standard decks and suggests Gruul Midrange as a possible contender.
For the holidays, we present one of Corbin’s earlier articles, which addresses a financial topic worth revisiting: MTG real estate at the release of the Fall set.
How is Standard shifting since last week’s update, and what is the state of affairs in the PTQ world?
Corbin Hosler examines and predicts the price movements of all the relevant lands in Return To Ravnica and Innistrad!
Returning from SCG Madison, Ryan offers up insight for tweaking popular Standard decks. Which cards should be cut in GR Aggro, Delver, RW Humans and Wolf Run?
In his first article for Quiet Speculation Ryan delves into a few spoilers from Avacyn Restored and the impact that they will have on Standard.
In the stock market, penny stocks are cheap, probably-junk securities that you get on the hope that they move up a few cents and show you a profit. They’re an alluring strategy in the stock market because you can get a big volume of them. For one share of Apple, you could score well over 5,000 shares of a junk medical-science company that may be on the verge of a huge patent. If your shares go up, they go UP. We look at penny stocks in Magic the same way; these are the gambits that you stock up on with hopes of big payoffs.
