Elsewhere Flask | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:26:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Elsewhere Flask | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Why BRO Limited Is a Sixteen Land Format https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/12/why-bro-limited-is-a-sixteen-land-format/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/12/why-bro-limited-is-a-sixteen-land-format/#respond Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=125044

Rob has turned his back on one of Limited's oldest accepted truths. This week he discusses why you should be playing sixteen lands (or less) in BRO Limited.

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After carefully studying footage of the Early Access event and analyzing successes at prerelease weekend, Rob makes his first observations on the new format.

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Magic Online has a problem. A card value problem. In a recent Channel Fireball article, Florian Koch showed just how much card prices have fallen over the past few years: That's right. To own a playset of the cheapest version of every Magic card ever printed on MTGO would have cost you roughly $28,000 in […]

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Witness the unveiling of Ryan's pauper cube list and see if it inspires you to join in the awesomeness.

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In 1998, I read an article in Inquest Magazine about Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest. From that point, I was hooked on the idea of playing value-laden creatures, aiming to overpower an opponent in card advantage and maybe pull off a combo kill. Decks at that time ran Great Whale and Shivan Hellkite […]

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What new decks will come with the introduction of Mirrodin Besieged to Standard and Extended? Greg takes an early look at some of the possibilities in this edition of Present-Present League.

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