Weekly Update (May 1): Spatial Contortion Promo, Platinum Changes Reversed
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Support for Jake |
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Current picture of Jake with his daughter Jamie
As many of you already know — our good friend and longtime MTGGoldfish contributor of Playing Pauper and Commander Clash — Jake suffered from cardiac arrest on April 14th which put him into a coma. Jake managed to pull through and awoke from his coma, and is expected to make a full recovery. I want to thank everyone for the tremendous outpour of support from the Magic community that helped Jake, his wife Michelle, and their daughter Jamie.
However, the battle isn't over. Anyone who has faced a medical emergency in the United States knows first hand of the absurdity of the healthcare system and the insane costs involved. Working with Michelle, we've put together a GoFundMe for Jake and his family to help with his medical expenses (thanks Tomer!). Anything helps and I encourge everyone to promote and share the GoFundMe, even if you cannot contribute personally. Go #teamjake.
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Platinum Changes Reversed |
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Wizards has reversed the proposed Platinum benefit changes due to overwhelming community feedback. Here's the quick summary of the reversal:
- Platinum benefits have been restored for the 2016-2017 season.
- The Worlds payout increase remains for 2016 (total prize pool of $250,000, an increase of $100,000).
- Wizards will reaccess the plan for Premier Play moving forward and will consult professional Magic players in the community.
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Budget Magic: $20 (9 tix) Standard Mono-Blue Brains |
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Have you ever wanted to make 25 Zombies tokens? And take four turns in a row? All this and more for only $20!Read more
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Finance Update w/ Saffron Olive |
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This week was a fairly calm week, especially compared to the crazy Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad-based spikes of the last couple of weeks.
In Standard, the story is cards that spiked hard at Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad increasing a little bit more. This includes Pyromancer's Goggles, Languish and Hissing Quagmire, all of which are up between 11 and 17 percent. Perhaps more surprising is the rise of Narset Transcendent (up 20 percent to $11.91) on the back of Esper Superfriends, which is quickly becoming the control deck of choice in Standard. All things told, I still expect we are near the peak for all of these cards and won't be surprised to see them on the biggest losers list at some point in the next month.
From a meta perspective, as a set, Shadows over Innistard has lost about 25 percent of its value in the past month, peaking at $432 March 28 and sitting at $320 today. This said, it likely has another 20 or 25 percent to drop over the summer, before potential increasing around fall rotation. I'd still look to sell expensive cards like Archangel Avacyn, Sorin, Grim Nemesis and Declaration in Stone if you aren't playing them at the moment, with an eye towards picking them up this summer while the community is focused on Eternal Masters and Conspiracy 2.
Finally, it looks like Tron is poised to make a comeback in Modern, at least according to Magic Online finance, where many of the key pieces of the deck, including Karn Liberated (up 15 percent to 14.5 tix), Oblivion Stone (up 13 percent to 13.65 tix), and Grove of the Burnwillows (up 41 percent to 28.20 tix) posted meaningful gains this week. Whether of not this translates into paper price movement (or tournament results) remains to be seen, but it appears that at least some people are betting that it will.
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Can't Miss Articles |
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Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad: By the Numbers |
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What decks and cards succeeded at Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad? What decks and cards failed? Let's break it down, by the numbers!Read more
Much Abrew About Nothing: Modern Angel Moon |
Sphinx's Revelation #5: Something's Fishy with this CoCo |
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You asked for it! It's time to see our first Instant Deck Tech deck in action: Angel Moon for Modern! Read more |
Try to solve this exciting puzzle and see if you'd be able to win the game! Read more |
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Playing Pauper: Orzhov Extortion |
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Jake shows off a Pauper deck using the power of Orzhov to extort and overwhelm.Read more
Against the Odds: Horror(able) Dredge |
Rough Drafts: Shadows over Innistrad |
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What are the odds of winning with tribal Horrors in Standard? We're about to find out! Read more |
On break from our journey though Modern, this week we get to explore the brand new format: Triple Shadows over Innistrad! Read more |
Vintage 101: From Modern to Vintage |
Podcast 066: Pro Tour Shadows over Premier Play |
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What do you do when your favorite deck gets banned in Modern? Play it in Vintage! Read more |
The crew discusses the Pro Platinum changes, no more Modern Pro Tours, #PTSOI and the future of MTGO. Read more |
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Instant Deck Techs |
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Each day we'll be posting a short, three minute deck tech featuring some of the coolest decks that come across the site. The most popular deck will be made into videos the following week based on your views, likes and comments in the videos. Here's this week's Instant Deck Techs:
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#Trending Cards |
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The five most viewed cards on MTGGoldfish this past week were:
