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Jason is the hardest working MTG Finance writer in the business. With a column appearing on Coolstufff Inc. in addition to MTG Price, he is also a member of the Brainstorm Brewery finance podcast and a writer and administrator for EDHREC's content website. Follow him on twitter @JasonEAlt

PROTRADER: The Naval Archives

I’ve got boat puns for days. You can’t escape the boat puns. It’s like the boat puns are a boat and you’re just some guy in an inner tube. Nice inner tube, idiot. I’ve got a whole navy of puns.

You know what’s even better than boat puns, besides “nothing”? Making money. Dolla dolla bills, y’all! I mean, if you want to make money in larger quantities than single dollars, that’s on you. You don’t want to end up like Pablo Escobar, spending six grand a month on rubber bands to hold all of your money. If you used hundreds, you could get that down to $60 a month, which is way more reasonable. Or you could reinvest that cash in some sicko EDH staples and make your money work for you.

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Brainstorm Brewery #157 How Bazaar

 

Brainstorm Brewery #157 – How Bazaar

 

Five may have been too many this week and the gang throws the baby out with the bathwater, slimming its lineup down to a svelte three-man cast. Corbin’s the odd man out, having been condemned to spend a family vacation near Vancouver where he covered the recent Pro Tour. There’s plenty to talk about and without Corbin to slow them down, the gang hits their stride and Ryan even talks a little. How ‘bout that?

 

  • Rolling start? Pick of the week first? What’s the deal?
  • Finance 101 – buy cards for cheap and sell them for more
  • The PT happened. What happened in that happening?
  • Changes to Organized play are happening!
  • Who’s not happy with the 2016 GP schedule?
  • MODO PTQ?
  • The link to the dividers as promised. Also, the other link you need.
  • Support our Patreon! DO IT. You know this cast makes you more than $1 a week
  • Need to contact us? Hit up BrainstormBrew@gmail.com

 

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Announcing Commander 2015

Making good on its promise to release a new spate of Commander preconstructed decks every year, Wizards has announced Commander 2015.

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There will be 55 brand-new cards created for this product unequally distributed over the 5 decks. Each deck gets 15 new cards, with the repeated cards usually being lands like Arcane Lighthouse and Myriad Landscape (which is bad for their price upside, but that can’t be helped).

The five decks will be comprised of the five “enemy” two-color combinations (white-black, blue-red, black-green, red-white, and green-blue) and will be 100 cards, as always.

Each Deck Contains:

  • A 100-card Commander deck
  • One oversized foil commander card for each deck
  • 10 double-sided tokens
  • Deck storage box
  • Strategy insert and rules reference card
  • 15 new Magic cards (55 for the set in total)

The double-sided tokens are cool, but they are so dirt cheap that there hasn’t been much secondary market buzz on them, even good ones like Wurmcoil Engine tokens.

What mana fixing are we likely to get? Pain lands? Bad River? Tempest duals? ABUR duals? It’s hard to know how Wizards will fix the mana, but it’s possible we’ll get a new card to do it and that there will be potential Legacy implications.

Remember, each of these sets has had one or two cards that shake up Legacy, so make sure you arbitrage those decks where you can. I don’t like these as long-term sealed investments, but I think a lot of the singles have more upside than is readily apparent. This is a chance for Wizards to print cards for Legacy without ruining Modern, so expect more of that.

With 55 brand-new cards, there are bound to be a few that have real financial implications. Stay glued to MTGPrice’s spoiler coverage for analysis. We just might be able to predict some sleepers and help you figure out which decks to grab.

PROTRADER: Naval Pacts

That’s a real thing, look it up. You’re just mad because you saw the title and thought, “I bet that one was really easy to come up with,” and while you’d be right, so what? I’m on top of my game, not everything has to be complicated, and I make it all look easy. What wasn’t easy was separating my feelings of “this card seems cool but not right for Standard” from the notion that sometimes powerful cards get built around.

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