I was hoping that someone here could help me with some questions I had about the phantom drafts. I love to draft and love how these phantom drafts sound as I'm not interested in collecting cards online and I'm on a budget. How often do these phantom drafts happen and how much do they cost? I'd like to be able to get online and just draft whenever I'd like, especially for a couple bucks, but I wanted to make sure I could actually do that before purchasing an account on MTGO.
I was hoping that someone here could help me with some questions I had about the phantom drafts. I love to draft and love how these phantom drafts sound as I'm not interested in collecting cards online and I'm on a budget. How often do these phantom drafts happen and how much do they cost? I'd like to be able to get online and just draft whenever I'd like, especially for a couple bucks, but I wanted to make sure I could actually do that before purchasing an account on MTGO.
Thanks.
As far as I know, Phantom Drafts aren't offered very frequently, and when they are, it's when they have the MTGO Cube up. (I also believe that they will be doing Phantom Modern Masters Swiss, but that is another story.)
They do offer Phantom Sealeds. Those cost four tickets each ($1 per ticket so $4 total) and if you go 2-1 (three out of the eight people will go 2-1) you get one booster which can be traded to a bot for around tickets (I recommend using the same bot every time because they store fractions of tickets - the booster will be worth 3.1 tickets or something like that and the bot will store .1 as credit). So, going 2-1 means that in order to do your next sealed, it will cost you $1.
Going 3-0 will give you three boosters and a QP (which are used for qualifiers in a monthly tournament). The three boosters will net you about 9-10 tickets, making your next sealed essentially free.
Basically, being in the top 50% of your pod makes doing another event much cheaper. I highly recommend doing phantom events, even though you don't get to keep the cards, because, for me, it's usually one ticket for three hours of entertainment, and I usually go 2-1, making my next event cheap.
And even if you don't place in the top 50%, you didn't miss out on much. It's only four tickets for the next one.
On a related note, Swiss drafts are similar (but more expensive). While Swiss doesn't give out as many prizes as the 8-4s, you are almost guaranteed to get one pack, making it $10 for the next Swiss draft instead of $16. Going 2-1 makes it $6 for the next draft instead, and going 3-0 makes it $2 for the next draft. This doesn't include the value of the cards that you get to keep. I also recommend doing Swiss drafts because you do get to play all three rounds and there is a good chance to go 2-1, and a $6 draft is much better than a $16 one.
As far as I know, Phantom Drafts aren't offered very frequently, and when they are, it's when they have the MTGO Cube up. (I also believe that they will be doing Phantom Modern Masters Swiss, but that is another story.)
They do offer Phantom Sealeds. Those cost four tickets each ($1 per ticket so $4 total) and if you go 2-1 (three out of the eight people will go 2-1) you get one booster which can be traded to a bot for around tickets (I recommend using the same bot every time because they store fractions of tickets - the booster will be worth 3.1 tickets or something like that and the bot will store .1 as credit). So, going 2-1 means that in order to do your next sealed, it will cost you $1.
Going 3-0 will give you three boosters and a QP (which are used for qualifiers in a monthly tournament). The three boosters will net you about 9-10 tickets, making your next sealed essentially free.
Basically, being in the top 50% of your pod makes doing another event much cheaper. I highly recommend doing phantom events, even though you don't get to keep the cards, because, for me, it's usually one ticket for three hours of entertainment, and I usually go 2-1, making my next event cheap.
And even if you don't place in the top 50%, you didn't miss out on much. It's only four tickets for the next one.
On a related note, Swiss drafts are similar (but more expensive). While Swiss doesn't give out as many prizes as the 8-4s, you are almost guaranteed to get one pack, making it $10 for the next Swiss draft instead of $16. Going 2-1 makes it $6 for the next draft instead, and going 3-0 makes it $2 for the next draft. This doesn't include the value of the cards that you get to keep. I also recommend doing Swiss drafts because you do get to play all three rounds and there is a good chance to go 2-1, and a $6 draft is much better than a $16 one.
Cool, thanks man! I enjoy sealed a little less but I may give it a shot. I really wish they had more support for phantom drafts of a bunch of sets. I'd pay for that without question.
Cool, thanks man! I enjoy sealed a little less but I may give it a shot. I really wish they had more support for phantom drafts of a bunch of sets. I'd pay for that without question.
Phantom drafts will happen whenever they figure out how players will blow the glut of packs coming in from constructed (or if they change the payouts on constructed somehow).
I'm thinking they actually would be fine with the paper model of stores cracking packs to feed constructed and everyone plays limited phantom.
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I don't know about drafts, but I think there are phantom sealed events. But they're not that popular.
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As far as I know, Phantom Drafts aren't offered very frequently, and when they are, it's when they have the MTGO Cube up. (I also believe that they will be doing Phantom Modern Masters Swiss, but that is another story.)
They do offer Phantom Sealeds. Those cost four tickets each ($1 per ticket so $4 total) and if you go 2-1 (three out of the eight people will go 2-1) you get one booster which can be traded to a bot for around tickets (I recommend using the same bot every time because they store fractions of tickets - the booster will be worth 3.1 tickets or something like that and the bot will store .1 as credit). So, going 2-1 means that in order to do your next sealed, it will cost you $1.
Going 3-0 will give you three boosters and a QP (which are used for qualifiers in a monthly tournament). The three boosters will net you about 9-10 tickets, making your next sealed essentially free.
Basically, being in the top 50% of your pod makes doing another event much cheaper. I highly recommend doing phantom events, even though you don't get to keep the cards, because, for me, it's usually one ticket for three hours of entertainment, and I usually go 2-1, making my next event cheap.
And even if you don't place in the top 50%, you didn't miss out on much. It's only four tickets for the next one.
On a related note, Swiss drafts are similar (but more expensive). While Swiss doesn't give out as many prizes as the 8-4s, you are almost guaranteed to get one pack, making it $10 for the next Swiss draft instead of $16. Going 2-1 makes it $6 for the next draft instead, and going 3-0 makes it $2 for the next draft. This doesn't include the value of the cards that you get to keep. I also recommend doing Swiss drafts because you do get to play all three rounds and there is a good chance to go 2-1, and a $6 draft is much better than a $16 one.
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Cool, thanks man! I enjoy sealed a little less but I may give it a shot. I really wish they had more support for phantom drafts of a bunch of sets. I'd pay for that without question.
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I would too. Maybe one day....
Thanks to Rivenor for the art.
I'm thinking they actually would be fine with the paper model of stores cracking packs to feed constructed and everyone plays limited phantom.