Strictly’s Simple Prerelease Finance Primer

Its the most wonderful time of the year. With the Kids slinging spells And everyone wanting a Peema Aether-Seer Its the most wonderful time of the year…. Yessiree, it is the most wonderful time of the year! Pre-release weekend.  I’d considered rewriting the whole song but time is short and what I have to share is important. Through trial and error, I have come up with a system for how I handle the financial part of the pre-release weekend. For the most common card types and rarities, I have created for myself a dollar value that represents a decision “threshold”.

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Announcement -Patreon Goal #1 Met

I am super excited to announce that we have reached Goal #1 on our Patreon. As a thank you to our current patrons and future patrons we have launched our Hall of Supporters page. Reaching Goal #1 means that I can move my hosting to a paid service and benefit more from the clicks and traffic that comes to the site. In the near future I will be moving the blog over to my own domain. Goal #2 is really close to being reached.  From my side, it looks like we are about $6/month away from Goal #2.  Once we reach this

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Frontier: Started from the bottom now we’re here.

With the Frontier format on the rise, I’d like to examine where we are how we got here. I’m not here to bring controversial opinions like the ones that have dominated magic content and social media. Instead, this will read as a chronology of the format from the beginning. I’ve been following and playing the format since the beginning and this is my account of what’s transpired. September 26th After what was arguably Wizard of the Coast’s busiest year for set releases, Hareruya and Big magic announce the Frontier format. Frontier is a new non-rotating format featuring cards from the

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