Rob San Juan shares his insights on this absurdly good (and expensive) Standard God.

I still can’t figure out the word… I mean, the meta! Can I buy a vial?

It begins, gentle seekers of glory. Today is a day of great opportunity and gangrenous rot. The pallid sun meekly illuminates the great ravenous hordes as they linger, eager and anxious, waiting for their moment, when they shall be unleashed upon the world to slack their unending hunger for inadequately-proportioned sugary confections. For those whose […]

The October 17 banlist announcement came and went, and no changes were made to Modern. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to glean. Wizards dropped some juicy information this announcement, and today we’ll deduce which cards the company has their eye on unbanning. Wizards’s latest “No changes” gave us some valuable insight into how they’re […]

Standard rotation is a month away, and Adam explains how the new metagame will look.

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.

Some serious shakeups in Standard have made this Pro Tour weekend very exciting, and Adam explains what’s happened and what to expect.

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. […]