Matthew Lewis and Sylvain Lehoux present the MTGO Market Report for this week, discussing major price trends and recommending specific cards to buy and sell.
Obzedat Ghost Council
December is usually a time when the Standard metagame is well defined and cards from the most recent fall set are at their lowest. Sylvain discusses a list of ten cards worth being on your radar for 2015.
Starting with mythics, this week Sylvain discusses which cards from M14 and Return to Ravnica may constitute a good investment after Standard rotates.
Today Jason Alt addresses a much-touted spec for rotation, Prognostic Sphinx. He analyzes in detail the factors that will contribute to this card’s success or failure, and compares it to an old spec to gain more insight.
This week Ryan looks at the recent evolution of Nissa in Standard and examines what seems to be the natural phases of deck evolution, reflecting on his recent experiences in tweaking working lists.
Sylvain concludes his series of Nine Months of Portfolio Management by reviewing his experience and updating his strategies for the year to come. Many valuable lessons have shaped the way he suggests approaching this coming year’s investing.
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 second half of rotation pickups for this Fall, going over Gatecrash and Dragon’s Maze.
Nine Months of Portfolio Management is also nine months of opportunity management. Using his work to illustrate these concepts, Sylvain shows us that opportunity cost and opportunity benefit account for more than you could think on MTGO.
Standard rotation has a strong effect on MTGO prices. Sylvain graphs out past trends and explains how this period of the year affects Standard speculations, particularly with cards from older sets.
Sylvain Lehoux goes over his experiences speculating on Block from the last two years, and applies lessons to Journey Into Nyx.
Mike looks at 3 Standard deck lists that break out of the typical metagame, building around a potent and dangerous Archangel of Thune core that can end games in short order.