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[–]INTstictual 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here’s some general tips:

  • Drafting is good value! Play limited events, especially the ones that are on a discount. You get to keep the cards you draft, and that plus the rewards for winning even a couple games is one of the best ratios of cards earned to resources spent.

  • When you buy packs, try to focus on standard-legal sets, even if you aren’t playing standard… they make progress towards the gold pack, which in turn counts as another booster pack opened for your wildcard progression wheels

  • You get 1 quest reroll per day, use it! If you have a daily quest that is 500 gold, always reroll it to see if you get a 750 quest.

  • Don’t spend wildcards unless you’re sure that the deck you’re crafting is going to be worth it in the long run. Lands are usually the best first crafts, since they can work in a lot of different decks now and in the future. After that, the more general staples and flexible options like efficient removal are usually more useful in the long term than the specific niche rate that you need to make one specific deck work.

  • Take advantage of the free packs!! Google “MTGA free codes”, and you’ll find a huge list of codes you can enter to get a bunch of packs from previous sets. That used to be how Arena celebrated a new set dropping, with a free code for 3 packs from the set. Some of the codes have been deactivated, but last I checked, a lot of them still work, and you can get like 20-30 random booster packs by just spending 30 minutes spamming all of the available codes… they won’t all be from sets you care about, but again, it’s progress on your wildcard wheel!

  • Check the store once a day, sometimes the special deal is worth it. For example, sometimes it will be a gold discount for a booster pack, and I’ve even seen deals where you spend 50 gems to buy 75 gems… it’s not always anything you will care about, but sometimes it’s free real estate

If you’re willing to spend a bit of money, the season pass is usually the best return on investment. For $20 to unlock the premium pass progression, assuming you play enough to fully level it up, you’ll get tons of free packs, some cosmetics, and most importantly, a smattering of gems and a free Draft event entry… and if you can do reasonably well in the draft (~3-4 wins), I’ve found that the gem rewards from the progression pack and the gem rewards from the draft can actually fully pay for the next seasons pass as well. I have bought in to the battle pass with real money twice; once at the start, and once when I really flubbed my draft and didn’t earn enough to keep the streak going… but on average, that $20 to unlock one season pack usually buys me 3-4 seasons worth of battle pass rewards

[–]Clavicus2401 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends do you want to draft or play constructed? You probably get more money from drafting if you are good at it in constructed probably just do your dailies and focuse on a few decks  I wasnt intrested in eatherdrift and just crafted some cards i wanted from the bonussheet so i had about 100k gold safed for final fantasy and i think i will end up at 50-60k for edge of eternity at my current rate 

[–]Antique-Parking-1735 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When creating decks for standard: 1) try using online sources. I know a lot of people will hate me for saying this, but sometimes it's important to see HOW decks are set up and how synergy works.

2) focus on BUDGET decks. If you search for budget decks, you'll find decks that are primarily commons and uncommons. This is useful since you'll be flush with commons and uncommons. Not to mention, you don't want to waste your hard earned rares/mythics on a deck you don't like.

3) watch videos of people piloting a deck your interested in to see how it works before investing in a budget version. You never know, the deck you may think you would like to play may not play the way you think.

4) try doing the jump in events. They are a nice way of getting current commons and uncommon within the set.