Watchtower

The Watchtower 1/6/20 for ProTraders – Plan Your Specs

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By: Travis Allen
@wizardbumpin

Don’t miss this week’s installment of the MTG Fast Finance podcast, an on-topic, no-nonsense tour through the week’s most important changes in the Magic economy.

Theros: Beyond Death spoilers are chugging along now that we’re in 2020 proper, and as put by my buddy @NewSpruke, “I’m not sure making an entire set mechanic around Hogaak is wise.” I agree Bill. While there’s a non-trivial cost to the escape mechanic in the necessity of exiling cards from your graveyard, one imagines that key cards will only need to escape two or three times before the door slams shut. How many times do you need to cast Elspeth or Uro before enough is enough? Theros is once again dripping with flavor and home to some fan favorites, enchantments especially, but in a post-Oko world, each of us wonders what awaits our preferred formats.

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Travis Allen has  been playing Magic: The Gathering since 1994, mostly in upstate New York. Ever since his first FNM he’s been trying to make playing Magic cheaper, and he first brought his perspective to MTGPrice in 2013. You can find his articles there weekly, as well as on the podcast MTG Fast Finance.

Casual Fridays

The end of the throne, part 2

It seems that two thousand words wasn’t enough for me and my planned spending, so here’s one last set of cards that I think are worth investing in or should be avoided:

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Cliff (@WordOfCommander) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the official substitute teacher of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.

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Pro Trader: 2020 Resolutions

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Readers!

It’s 2020 and you know what that means!

Actually, I’ve got nothing. For some reason, I thought 2019 was the year when WotC ruined Magic with insanely powerful cards that made everything else obsolete and ruined most formats, resulting in emergency bans that made expensive cards suddenly worthless, FNMs no one wanted to play in, etc. I had some faith that they learned about making really dangerous cards and that they learned from the Saheeli, Guardian fiasco. Surely 2020 would be different.

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Casual Fridays

The End Of the throne, Part 1

Last week I went through some Throne of Eldraine cards and advocated for their purchase, but there’s a lot I left out. So let’s get to them!

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Cliff (@WordOfCommander) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the official substitute teacher of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.

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