With newer formats, a card’s value is highly correlated to its playability. This isn’t always the case with cards from Magic‘s earliest sets, as evidenced by recent buyouts.
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After a few years, we have some concrete data to compare and contrast the Masterpieces. David breaks down what we know to see which are attractively priced.
Eternal Magic has gotten very interesting lately with SCG’s price hikes and the announcement of a Legacy PT. Sig breaks it down and looks where to put any newfound profits to work.
The B&R update last week shook up a lot of formats, but not Modern. With the format stable for the time being, it’s worth a closer look to see where there may be opportunity.
Mike breaks down the current state of Modern, including detailed discussion of the format’s most popular decks.
No, this isn’t a finance article—I leave those to the geniuses over at Quiet Spec (and Jim Casale of course). What I want to talk about today are individual cards whose “gameplay stock” is trending up or down based on recent trends in the metagame: “what’s hot and what’s not,” if you will. We’ve done […]
Around the time of MMA, Sig sold some Modern staples in anticipation of reprints. It took five years for those sales to pay off. This week he looks closely at the data to evaluate his decision.
Brian tuned in for GP Vancouver, where several cards made splashes in the new Modern environment. He looks at solid pick-ups with an eye to Modern’s future.
Will Fatal Push make do-nothing control shine in Modern? Week one offers some promising results.
DJ is here to tell you which commons and uncommons you should be picking out of your Aether Revolt bulk.
DJ covers some of the biggest increases over the twelve months of 2016.
After a year of ups and downs in Magic finance, Sig has new optimism for a profitable 2017. He looks back at valuable lessons from 2016 and strategies for the new year.
Mike breaks down the Modern-playable Masterpieces and some of the decks that excel with them!