proactivity | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png proactivity | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 King of the Hill: Using Your Flex Slots in an Open Meta https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/11/king-hill-using-flex-slots-open-meta/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/11/king-hill-using-flex-slots-open-meta/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:00:42 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=16013 If you’ve been playing Modern over the last few months, you may have noticed an interesting trend in the metagame results: no one deck is top dog. While a familiar cast of characters inhabits the top of the charts, it seems as if any one of them can do well in a given tournament, all […]

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