Momentary Blink | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:25:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png Momentary Blink | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Generational Magic: Drafting Double Masters 2022 with Friends https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/generational-magic-drafting-double-masters-2022-with-friends/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2022/07/generational-magic-drafting-double-masters-2022-with-friends/#respond Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=116677

Tony shares his Double Masters 2022 draft experience along with getting to know a little about the other players in his draft pod.

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This week Rob looks at the highly anticipated Double Masters set and breaks down how the ten archetypes will likely play out in the format.

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The sequel to Guilds of Ravnica and the 80th expansion set in Magic: The Gathering's history is due to release on January 25, 2019.  Here's what we know about Ravnica Allegiance (RNA) so far, including any cards in the spoiler, the guilds represented, and cards to speculate on before the full spoiler is released.   The Guilds […]

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Ultimate Masters is still in full bounce back mode, and the last World Magic Cup has come to a finish. Plus, some sweet Ravnica Allegiance spoilers have hit the market so there’s gonna be a nice mix of things to talk about again in this piece. Owing to the spoilers, this might be a little […]

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Ultimate Masters has hit the market and there’s already been a lot of movement. The prices of the reprints dropped as they usually do when a set first hits the market. But it seems like the prices have started to rebound a lot quicker this time around. There’s a slight possibility they could drop again […]

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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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Welcome back, folks. It's been a while since I last wrote an article, in large part because I've been unwilling to make any financial moves on MTGO before reading the December 6th announcement about competitive play on Arena. What is announced there could have major ramifications for investing on MTGO, and so I've been very […]

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Many people have been saying there’s been a little less movement regarding Magic finance during the past few weeks or months. Some people are saying there’s a slowdown. Others are saying it’s normal because the holidays are around the corner and players have less money to spend on Magic cards. Regardless, Magic continues to move […]

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Matthew Lewis presents the MTGO Market Report for this week, evaluating important events in the online market and highlighting a “trade of the week.”

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Brian DeMars introduces his brainchild Magic variant, the Danger Room. He shares his current list and the philosophy behind it, before looking at Origins for new additions.

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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 the last segment of his artifact extravaganza, Carlos is looking at Dark Ascension and Kataki, War's Wage. This guy has typically been considered unplayable for Commander; but when you build around his effect, he can be pretty nasty.

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If you've played enough Magic Online, you know what the F6 key does. Don't let that happen to your cube. Anthony's breaking down the benefits of combat tricks (and linking to more Internet memes)!

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You've heard about "the danger of cool plays" in Magic. Jules shares with us the danger of un-cool plays, and how to amp your entire Commander troupe's fun up to 11!

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10 Magic players of superior skill enter a single team cube draft. How do you handle the volume without taking up an entire day? Anthony has the clever, and fun, solution of Survivor Draft!

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Being "The Threat" is generally a bad thing, right? How about a deck that lives at the center of the storm it creates! Rob has you covered this week with a trip down the road Sharuum the Hegemon paves.

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Anthony Avitollo, our resident cube master, breaks down or completely blasts some of the best (and overhyped cards) for cubes from New Phyrexia!

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With a tale of two Commander decks, Neale shares everything that's right and wrong in Commander!

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