David pores through the Commander 2017 spoiler for all the cards with eternal potential, covering their chances of seeing competitive play and in what archetypes.
Jace
Some serious shakeups in Standard have made this Pro Tour weekend very exciting, and Adam explains what’s happened and what to expect.
Mike’s got something a little different for this box report. When a set’s EV is this bad, sometimes one needs to improvise…
In his first article for Quiet Speculation, Jim Casale covers Commander cards from Hour of Devastation that may end up holding a significant portion of the set’s value.
The Ixalan leaks point to a major change in how planeswalkers function, and this makes a handful of cards suddenly much more desirable.
There was a lot of news in the Magic world this week, some planned, and some unexpected, and Adam explains what it all means.
With the banning of Top, David’s beloved Miracles deck is no more. He discusses the future of the Legacy metagame and some key cards that may be poised for gains.
Publication does not mean that an experiment is complete. Oftentimes readers see trends or have insights that never occurred to the author. Other times feedback leads to epiphanies which requires additional investigation. As a result, in academia it is important to revisit old papers and reexamine conclusions. Therefore, I’m going to spend today following up on […]
April 24th came and went, and besides some misguided grumbling about Death’s Shadow, most Modern players were content. Without one deck consistently surpassing 10% of the metagame, a “no changes” banlist announcement was easy to predict. But Wizards went the extra mile with this particular announcement, including a blurb about Modern despite choosing not to shake it up. […]
The recently announced Iconic Masters will bring a new influx of supply to the market on top of the deluge from MM3. Sig explains what it means for your portfolio.
Besides the cards themselves, there are all sorts of collectible items associated with Magic—some surprisingly more valuable than you’d think.
At last, the time has come to reveal the data about my Jace testing. As a reminder, these data come from 500 matches, well over 1000 individual games played over five months. I publish my methods so that you can replicate my experiment if you disagree with the results, but I have to warn you […]
And so it begins. I want to start with a general thank-you to everyone who helped out. This was an enormous undertaking logistically and took much longer than expected. Even considering the deck I was using for testing purposes. Thank you for putting up with this insanely ambitious project. And please, please, pleeeease be willing to […]
