Brainstorm Brewery #91 – And Then There Were 3
With Ryan taking a week off for travel it’s up to the other three to hold down the fort. While it was a relatively slow week for finance, the gang finds plenty to discuss. What is the forecast for reprints of Modern Staples, namely lands? Who goes overboard with 12 picks of the week and...
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Funning For Your Playgroup: Silver-Bordered Cards in Blue and Black Appropriate for Commander
This article is the second part in the Funning For Your Playgroup series, which explores silver-bordered cards appropriate for Commander. Like white, blue and black Un- cards offer a lot to a casual Commander playgroup with a strong social contract. Blue [card]Carnivorous Death-Parrot[/card] 1U Creature — Bird Flying 2/2 [card]Checks and Balances[/card] 2U Enchantment...
Winning a PTQ with Mono-Black Devotion
So this past weekend, I won a PTQ in Tallahassee, Florida. I’d like to give a big shoutout to the tournament organizer, Gamescape, and its owner, Benjamin Bloodworth, for consistently putting on the best tournaments and running the best local shop I’ve ever been to in my twenty years of playing Magic. I played Mono-Black...
Episode 25 – Xenagos, God of Formats
Our 25th episode is chockablock full as we uncover Conspiracy, speculate on the potential cards in FTV: Annihilation, and do our own fantasy Pro Tour Born of the Gods draft. Cameron also spends a bit of time evaluating [card]Xenagos, God of Revels[/card]. He likes it. He likes it a lot. Your hosts: Dustin Gore Cameron...
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Funning For Your Playgroup: Silver-Bordered Cards in White Appropriate for Commander
In an interview on CommanderCast #137, during a rapid-fire question-and-answer session, the hosts asked Sheldon Menery, “Would [the Rules Committee] ever consider making the Un- sets legal?” Sheldon’s answer was an expectedly simple, “No.” Sheldon’s justification behind the answer was not explored, but it can be easily intuited. Mainly, many of the silver-bordered cards require...
Casually Infinite – Understanding Bots
On MTGO, interacting with bots ends up being a mandatory endeavor at some point. While trading between players is often the most profitable, sometimes you need to interact with a vendor with a large number of cards in order to pick up what you need. Bots drive the MTGO economy in very significant ways. We...
Weekend Review March 7-9
“Leave the last 10 percent for the next guy.” This sound line of reasoning has been promoted by the guys from the Brainstorm Podcast and I tend to agree, although it may seem counter-intuitive initially -“Why give up profit margins on my speculation targets that hit?” Because cards are ultimately only worth what someone is...
C(ube)+C(ommander) Magic Factory #5 – Nature of the Beast Review
For the last installment in this series of C+C Magic Factory, we’ll be reviewing the Commander 2013 deck, Nature of the Beast. Here’s a review of the grading system we’ll be using. The first grade for each card is a Cube grade, the second is a Commander grade. Cube: [A+]: First-pick card on power level alone...
Pitt Imps Podcast #59 – Still No Playmat
In this weeks episode of the Imps we argue about how fun Sealed is then we go over GP Barcelona. After that rant we go into GP Melborne and SCG ATL. We decide weather or not to buy the Jace vs Vraska deck coming out, complain about being snubbed, and the new FNM Card. Then...
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Great Expectations
This is a headline that makes me chuckle every single time I read it: “Apple posted quarterly results that beat estimates Monday … shares dropped more than 5%.” For those who don’t follow non-Magic finance, the reason this happens (and it happens all the time to all kinds of companies) has to do with expectations....
Serum Visions – Tarmogoyf and Saaz: Kindred Spirits
Welcome back to Serum Visions, everyone! I am writing a finance article this week! After a couple of months of process articles that weren’t particularly inspired by MTG, I think it’s time to take it back a little. With our favorite green creature reaching a very upsetting $200, and [card]Misty Rainforest[/card]s and [card]Scalding Tarn[/card]s both...
Brainstorm Brewery #90 – Dreams Denied
It’s a new finance landscape than it was a year ago and the gang is left with as many questions as answers as we watch cards that spiked to unprecedented levels are beginning to normalize. Pro Tour Born of the Gods made some people a lot of money, but who really benefitted? Was it a...
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