I didnt spent a single Dollar and reached mythic constructed and Platinum Draft last month. Boros Aggro, Mono white,Azorius Aggro, mono blue and dimir midrange. Control decks will be tough to put together without spending any money
But i started playing arena 3 days ago and im only about 5 rares, and 1 common, and 3 uncommon off having the standard RDW list you get in paper meta.
I don't really see many chainwhirlers yet on arena, but I guess thats because im not at many rares. RDW, and Gruul Stompy seem to be pretty good in BO1.
Planning on making the red, and trying to get gold positive on bo1 until I can make mono U tempo and try bo3.
I enjoy playing paper magic a lot. A LOT. My little brother got me into it and it's something that we, as adults now, did to hang out with eachother and have a mutual interest. He's always been the anime lover and I've always been the sports/FPS lover, so we never really had much before that.
So, he got me into the game, walked me through it, and I spent all the money and bought all the decks and had a great time. And so did my LGS.
My little brother moved to Japan two years ago. I work late Friday nights sometimes and am an old man father and husband. It's very, very hard for me to find time to play Magic because I frequently can't go to FNM and my little brother is thousands of miles away.
The last paper event I went to was a midnight draft with my brother and his friends for Journey into Nyx.
So...yeah.
I'm spending my ass off on MTG Arena, because it's allowed me to play Magic again. I haven't played Magic in four years, but now I've been doing three hours of drafting every night after the family is asleep.
But i started playing arena 3 days ago and im only about 5 rares, and 1 common, and 3 uncommon off having the standard RDW list you get in paper meta.
I don't really see many chainwhirlers yet on arena, but I guess thats because im not at many rares. RDW, and Gruul Stompy seem to be pretty good in BO1.
Planning on making the red, and trying to get gold positive on bo1 until I can make mono U tempo and try bo3.
Hey what is the best way for a player in Arena to get 4 copies of at at least 50% of the cards by obtaining wildcards without spending actual money? I apperciate any helpful suggestions.
But i started playing arena 3 days ago and im only about 5 rares, and 1 common, and 3 uncommon off having the standard RDW list you get in paper meta.
I don't really see many chainwhirlers yet on arena, but I guess thats because im not at many rares. RDW, and Gruul Stompy seem to be pretty good in BO1.
Planning on making the red, and trying to get gold positive on bo1 until I can make mono U tempo and try bo3.
Hey what is the best way for a player in Arena to get 4 copies of at at least 50% of the cards by obtaining wildcards without spending actual money? I apperciate any helpful suggestions.
Play the constructed one where you can lose up to 3 times before you get booted. That's generally the best way to get cards. Or just keep getting your quests, and opening packs
But i started playing arena 3 days ago and im only about 5 rares, and 1 common, and 3 uncommon off having the standard RDW list you get in paper meta.
I don't really see many chainwhirlers yet on arena, but I guess thats because im not at many rares. RDW, and Gruul Stompy seem to be pretty good in BO1.
Planning on making the red, and trying to get gold positive on bo1 until I can make mono U tempo and try bo3.
Hey what is the best way for a player in Arena to get 4 copies of at at least 50% of the cards by obtaining wildcards without spending actual money? I apperciate any helpful suggestions.
Play the constructed one where you can lose up to 3 times before you get booted. That's generally the best way to get cards. Or just keep getting your quests, and opening packs
Unfortunately there is no card protection for this event, it's only for packs, so if you run the risk of drawing you 12th Verix Bladewing or whatever the **** from this event. I've gotten so many Squee the Immortals I should win an award, but have never opened or pulled a single Absorb.
I don't know about this 50% of the cards for free thing, but there are ways to spend your gold more efficiently. One way to get more gold is to once a day, click on a 500 gold quest to cycle it to something different. You get a chance to cycle into a 750 gold quest instead. You can click one quest, once a day only. The most important thing I think is to not waste your wildcards. If you are trying to get all of those cards to play constructed, decide on a decklist before you start building it. I'd recommend cruising the deck building forums and/or youtube to figure out which decks are good. Spend all your resources to get yourself just one, good tier 1 deck. Mono-red and mono-blue are the easiest to build because they don't take rare lands and utilize many commons/uncommons, thus making them easier to put together.
Once you have a tier 1 deck, try out the ranked ladder. It's easier/faster to put together a bo1 as opposed to bo3 deck as bo3 requires 75 cards overall instead of 60.
I would only recommend using the pay to play constructed event if you can at least break even, or actually gain gold through wins. If you can't at least make your money back on average, it's probably not worth playing yet. Give it 2-3 shots. If you aren't breaking even after 3 entries, stop playing it, you'll waste your gold. Don't be afraid to check back in with the pay to play events if you go up in skill level or feel you built a better deck. Currently I am at a winning gold level with the constructed event so I'm mining it. I struck out with like 4 earlier attempts at it before though.
After you have a tier 1 deck, use your gold to play the ranked draft in order to convert it to gems. I would recommend saving any gold you may earn now until the war of the spark draft is released. It takes a week or two after the set drops for them to offer the most current set available to draft for gold. You start building up gems, which you use for bo3 drafts, which are a bit easier to "go infinite" on. Don't be afraid to "rare draft" a card you know to be absolutely bonkers for a deck you want to build.
By saving up resources for when a new set drops, you can ensure that you get MANY cards from the set. This in turn helps you fill up the vault, which is huge in terms of getting those precious wildcards. I have gone through the vault like 5 times since the open beta using mostly the method described. Once you have acquired basically all the commons/uncommons in a set, the vault starts to fill up quickly.
If you don't have a deck that you really like and nets you at least 50% wins, spend your gold on packs instead of drafts. With the meta on the brink of changing in only 2 weeks, it may be smart to just save that gold and spend it on war of the spark packs to get to that first good deck.
I gotta say, it's amazing how many people already have full War of the Spark sets one day after launch. I wouldn't have expected it, but I see more people playing with large amounts of the new cards than not. Running into tons of decks, at Gold rank, with multiple full 4 rare/mythic card sets. I opened about 20 packs and dont really have much, so I added a few cards to existing decks to play around with them, but I see a lot of whole new deck types. I dont know how they do it, but this game I guess is printing money off these people.
I gotta say, it's amazing how many people already have full War of the Spark sets one day after launch. I wouldn't have expected it, but I see more people playing with large amounts of the new cards than not. Running into tons of decks, at Gold rank, with multiple full 4 rare/mythic card sets. I opened about 20 packs and dont really have much, so I added a few cards to existing decks to play around with them, but I see a lot of whole new deck types. I dont know how they do it, but this game I guess is printing money off these people.
Yes, I'm sure the game is making massive amounts of money. I used a ton of Uncommon Wildcards, but the limits are always Rares, and I just dont have enough, it would take a lot of money to complete the mana bases alone.
How does this compare to Duels of the Planeswalkers? I spent quite a bit on that game a few years ago, but it's defunct now. Is it worth spending on this?
This is the real deal. If I remember Duals (my son had it on an ipad) its quite a bit more limited. With this, everything in Standard is available to you.
I gotta say, it's amazing how many people already have full War of the Spark sets one day after launch. I wouldn't have expected it, but I see more people playing with large amounts of the new cards than not. Running into tons of decks, at Gold rank, with multiple full 4 rare/mythic card sets. I opened about 20 packs and dont really have much, so I added a few cards to existing decks to play around with them, but I see a lot of whole new deck types. I dont know how they do it, but this game I guess is printing money off these people.
Yes, I'm sure the game is making massive amounts of money. I used a ton of Uncommon Wildcards, but the limits are always Rares, and I just dont have enough, it would take a lot of money to complete the mana bases alone.
Just build the mana bases for 1 or 2 decks. Do you really need to be able to play every color combo? If so, yes, expect to spend money.
I didn't know you could even spend money on Dual of the planeswalkers, barely heard about it. They are using Arena for actual gameplay in some of the Mythic championships, what used to be the Pro-tour. They are paying 32 pros $75,000 a year to stream a certain number of hours and play in events for Arena. The only way Arena goes away anytime in the next few years is if Magic totally fails as a game. It's already too big for Wizard's to pull back, too much money to be made.
I've spent like 40 bucks and while it is fun to play I don't really like having to work so damn hard to play constructed competitively. I'm not putting in another cent just gonna finish my boros feather deck and then try and go free to play infinite.
Have not spent one cent, and see no reason to. I already have most of WoTS, at least what I am after (I can't see myself desperate for 4x Silent Submersible), and have finished my Kefnet/Liliana deck. At no cost.
Yep people are. It's an expensive game if you don't want to get spanked in non-limited modes, which is all you can do without spending money.
The whole point of the game is to suck if you don't spend money.
I don't mind spending money -- just not stupidly. I've spent 1000s of dollars on mtgo and paper but I won't just leave it to the magic gods to "hope" I get the cards I want to build a standard deck. I probably would've spent 200 bucks in the past month on individual cards or so but with the current format every pack I crack in WotS has the same exact unplayable rotating 3 chase rares.
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But i started playing arena 3 days ago and im only about 5 rares, and 1 common, and 3 uncommon off having the standard RDW list you get in paper meta.
I don't really see many chainwhirlers yet on arena, but I guess thats because im not at many rares. RDW, and Gruul Stompy seem to be pretty good in BO1.
Planning on making the red, and trying to get gold positive on bo1 until I can make mono U tempo and try bo3.
So, he got me into the game, walked me through it, and I spent all the money and bought all the decks and had a great time. And so did my LGS.
My little brother moved to Japan two years ago. I work late Friday nights sometimes and am an old man father and husband. It's very, very hard for me to find time to play Magic because I frequently can't go to FNM and my little brother is thousands of miles away.
The last paper event I went to was a midnight draft with my brother and his friends for Journey into Nyx.
So...yeah.
I'm spending my ass off on MTG Arena, because it's allowed me to play Magic again. I haven't played Magic in four years, but now I've been doing three hours of drafting every night after the family is asleep.
Hey what is the best way for a player in Arena to get 4 copies of at at least 50% of the cards by obtaining wildcards without spending actual money? I apperciate any helpful suggestions.
Play the constructed one where you can lose up to 3 times before you get booted. That's generally the best way to get cards. Or just keep getting your quests, and opening packs
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Unfortunately there is no card protection for this event, it's only for packs, so if you run the risk of drawing you 12th Verix Bladewing or whatever the **** from this event. I've gotten so many Squee the Immortals I should win an award, but have never opened or pulled a single Absorb.
Once you have a tier 1 deck, try out the ranked ladder. It's easier/faster to put together a bo1 as opposed to bo3 deck as bo3 requires 75 cards overall instead of 60.
I would only recommend using the pay to play constructed event if you can at least break even, or actually gain gold through wins. If you can't at least make your money back on average, it's probably not worth playing yet. Give it 2-3 shots. If you aren't breaking even after 3 entries, stop playing it, you'll waste your gold. Don't be afraid to check back in with the pay to play events if you go up in skill level or feel you built a better deck. Currently I am at a winning gold level with the constructed event so I'm mining it. I struck out with like 4 earlier attempts at it before though.
After you have a tier 1 deck, use your gold to play the ranked draft in order to convert it to gems. I would recommend saving any gold you may earn now until the war of the spark draft is released. It takes a week or two after the set drops for them to offer the most current set available to draft for gold. You start building up gems, which you use for bo3 drafts, which are a bit easier to "go infinite" on. Don't be afraid to "rare draft" a card you know to be absolutely bonkers for a deck you want to build.
By saving up resources for when a new set drops, you can ensure that you get MANY cards from the set. This in turn helps you fill up the vault, which is huge in terms of getting those precious wildcards. I have gone through the vault like 5 times since the open beta using mostly the method described. Once you have acquired basically all the commons/uncommons in a set, the vault starts to fill up quickly.
If you don't have a deck that you really like and nets you at least 50% wins, spend your gold on packs instead of drafts. With the meta on the brink of changing in only 2 weeks, it may be smart to just save that gold and spend it on war of the spark packs to get to that first good deck.
Yes, I'm sure the game is making massive amounts of money. I used a ton of Uncommon Wildcards, but the limits are always Rares, and I just dont have enough, it would take a lot of money to complete the mana bases alone.
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Just build the mana bases for 1 or 2 decks. Do you really need to be able to play every color combo? If so, yes, expect to spend money.
I didn't know you could even spend money on Dual of the planeswalkers, barely heard about it. They are using Arena for actual gameplay in some of the Mythic championships, what used to be the Pro-tour. They are paying 32 pros $75,000 a year to stream a certain number of hours and play in events for Arena. The only way Arena goes away anytime in the next few years is if Magic totally fails as a game. It's already too big for Wizard's to pull back, too much money to be made.
The whole point of the game is to suck if you don't spend money.
I don't mind spending money -- just not stupidly. I've spent 1000s of dollars on mtgo and paper but I won't just leave it to the magic gods to "hope" I get the cards I want to build a standard deck. I probably would've spent 200 bucks in the past month on individual cards or so but with the current format every pack I crack in WotS has the same exact unplayable rotating 3 chase rares.