Brainstorm Brewery #137 – I Choose You, Pucachu
The miscreants behind PucaTrade, Eric and Mitch, stop by the cast to talk turkey about the fastest-growing way to trade Magical cards. What is PucaTrade? What’s a Puca even? Is this actual peer-to-peer trading or is it a Ponzi scheme? All these questions and a few submitted by you, the listener, are addressed in a timeless...
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Privileged Perspective 17 – Last Week and the Future
So last week’s article happened. The feedback that I got was mostly reticent confusion, which is how I imagine most test audiences walked out of advance screenings of Donnie Darko. Let’s address the problems with last week’s article: I started an experiment that I knew could not be quantified within my typical writing window (my...
Conjured Currency #53: TCGplayer Tour!
Let me preface this by saying I was not paid by TCGplayer to write this article. I’m just a longtime buyer of cards from the website, and have had a seller account for a little over two years (although I don’t use it nearly as much as I probably should). If you’ve been reading my...
The Wealth Effect
Magic financiers typically point to the growth of the playerbase as the primary driver of rising card prices in recent years. Rising card prices, in turn, have been the primary driver of Magic finance. Without new money pouring in, speculating on Magic cards would largely be a zero-sum game closer to gambling than investing. The...
Weekend Magic: 2/27-3/1
This week brought us Star City Games: Baltimore, where Modern was the featured format with a side of Standard and Legacy. Let’s dive into the results to see what innovations were showcased this weekend. Star City Games: Baltimore – Modern Open (Baltimore, MD – USA) Decklists Deck Finish Player Deck Finish Player Sultai 1st Gerard...
Pitt Imps Podcast #107 Age of Affinity
This week, we go over the Standard GP that just passed. We also cover some quick news. I don’t know, something about a Dual Deck or a FTV or something. Then we ramble for a bit. Oh wait. Crap, almost forgot. We are giving a guy a try at the third seat. Host Angelo Twitter...
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Casually Infinite – Manifest and Other Troubled Mechanics of Magic‘s Past
I’ve kept no secret about the fact that I’m not impressed with manifest as a mechanic. To me, it fits in with a number of previous unimpressive “feel bad” mechanics. As a featured new keyword in a set, it has a number of issues similar to other troubled mechanics such as tribute, cipher, and curses....
Privileged Perspective 16 – Once More Unto The Breach
So today we are going to do something that we have never done before, and could theoretically never do again. Thanks to a conflux of semi-recent events, driven primarily by the new foreign card market, I am about to sign up for TCGplayer—and you’re going to go through it with me! Obviously this experiment is going...
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