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This is a basic guide to drafting/playing sealed economically on the MTGO platform.

Let's start with basic knowledge about the in-game currencies and the botting system.

There are two forms of currency in-game (excluding packs): Play Points and Event Tickets. Event tickets are highly versatile, and can be used for most things on the MTGO platform. You can trade them for cards or enter events with them, but the latter is not advised.

Play points are accumulated through playing events and by opening treasure chest boosters. At the start of a set, entering events with playpoints is most likely the cheapest way to play. At the end of the set, entering with packs and a couple event tickets is probably the cheapest way to play.

Bots are the most common way to trade on the platform. Find a reliable set of bots (I use cardhoarder and goatbots) to do your trading. Partial trades, which split up even ticket value, are saved by these bots.

Unless you go infinite with Play Points and do not need to purchase any currency to play events, you will need to figure out a way to get into events. If you have $30-$40 to drop, the best way to do this is to purchase a high value preconstructed deck and trade it to a bot for either event tickets or treasure chest booster packs. Goatbots has a page on their site that shows you how many event tickets they will trade for that specific card list from the preconstructed deck. Google it. The highest proportional value commander decks are at the top of the commander list. The commander decks are worth more than the bundles (usually), so scroll down on the page until you hit the commander decks.

Treasure chest boosters basically operate by giving you some cards and some play points when opened. Goatbots also has a page about this on their site. Google it. Unlike most forms of gambling, the EV (Expected value) of a treasure chest booster pack is actually higher than the event tickets used to purchase the boosters from bots, if you intend to play events. Trade the cards you obtain from the treasure chest boosters for more treasure chest boosters. I would stay away from treasure chest boosters if you have a gambling addiction. I do, and although I generated $900 in Play Points from $350 Commander Decks, I spent way too much money to begin with.

The second best way to enter events, which is better towards the end of a set being played, is to use packs and event tickets to enter events. Do not purchase packs from the shop, trade event tickets for packs because they are much cheaper from bots than from the shop.

TDLR: Buy a high value commander deck -> trade them to reliable bot network (I use goatbots) -> trade for event tickets or treasure chest boosters -> if you didn't purchase treasure chest boosters, buy 3 or 6 packs at a time to enter draft or sealed, respectively.

I hope that helps. Have fun in drafting and sealed.

Hi everyone!

My absolute favorite way to play Magic is limited and often times I am able to complete a set due to the sheet volume of what I draft. With six standard sets coming down the pipeline, I don't know that I can afford paper drafting at my LGS at a high frequency ($20 USD per draft with prize support). I'm wondering if MTGO will be more financially tenable in the coming year(s). With that in mind:

- Does MTGO plan on offering set redemption for draftable UB sets?
- When a new set drops on MTGO, is the previous set no longer draftable?
- In order to complete a set of FDN, what cards need to be collected? 281 (reprints + new cards)? Or do I need +10 for the full art lands? Or do I need +78 for the beginner box? Or do I need +163 for the starter collection? All those parts have the FDN code and set symbol, so I don't know what all I need for set redemption.

Thanks for your time!

Hey all? So I have a secret santa gift to give and my friend cube drafts alot, is it possible to put the credit on his account?.

I'm playing Rakdos and that Boros Energy deck kills me every time. What red black cards can I sideboard in VS those stupid cats and Phlage?

I didn’t take a pic of the chat log most likely cause I was so upset, but I ran into this person on Tournament Practice who said “you must be young” and said I was “immature” for talking to him about my deck strategy and what it’s good against.

He said that I shouldn’t be giving away my strategy and that’s why I’m immature, but I was just infuriated cause like it’s just practice, you don’t win anything. Like anytime you are practicing magic whether it’s kitchen table magic or in a serious/higher level setting you will know the persons strategy.

Like obviously in a tournament setting I wouldn’t do that, I just treat these practice matches as a learning experience and theory crafting testing ground.

I’ve queued for 60 mins twice and I can’t even find a single game, what can I do?

I'm playing a new EDH deck built around opponents choosing, with cards like [[Sadistic Shell Game]], however with all of these cards I can't see any way to know what my opponents have chosen.

Am I missing something, or is this how these cards are supposed to function?

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I took a long hiatus from MTGO due to lots of personal issues. After several small miracles (that's enough for it's own post), I was able to get back into one of my favorite accounts. After about three weeks of almost daily playing at least three games per day, I'm embarrassed to admit this, I won my first game! It happened this morning against a person who, unfortunately for him, had severe mana drought (one card the entire game). He was only able to get out one creature. Even though I had loads of mana, and a few creatures, he was still able to keep me at bay for about 10 rounds before he conceded. It was not pretty, but a win is a win--especially when you haven't won a single game in years.

Looking for a way to manage the cards I have in my collection and build deck out of them without being on mtgo. I got the account upgrade kit, and the commander workshop bundle, and was wanting the build decks out of the cards from that, preferably on my phone.

Is there a collection manager that will let me build a deck from those cards and let me import the list into online?

Hi all I just got into the game and want to know if it’s smart to wait for foundation to come out to spend my wildcards on a budget standard deck. The breakdown of my wildcards is something like 28, 14, 9 and 3.

I’m a little confused on how rotation works and I don’t want to wait my starter wildcards.

Thanks all :)

EDIT: Thanks all for letting me know I’m in the wrong sub. I didn’t know there were two magic onlines… is there a reason for that? Should I be playing one or the other?

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Come stomp me! I started MTGO so I can continue to draft BLB because I have a PROBLEM and need better commanders before I can play Constructed. 🐿️

I'm playing on a tight budget and can't find a way to liquidate cards I'm done with, am I just stuck with them?

It was a great experience. All the archetypes were fun and accessible if you found a lane. I personally had a hard time understanding the prowess strategy but once I began to understand it I had a ton of fun! Thanks for the awesome alternate win conditions (the Horror Cube Challenge)

I would like to request the 3 for one mana spells added. Brainstorm, Dark Ritual, Lighting Bolt, Giant Growth, and I dunno what the white one would be? Stp?

Anyways I loved it as is and was pleasantly surprised how dynamic it actually played

This made me laugh a little, thought I'd share with you guys

Hello,

This thread is less about whether it's a good idea to have UB in standard (I think it's too many sets too fast and it's odd seeing cards like SpongeBob across the table but I can cope), and more about whether MTGO will even be able to keep up with Standard going forward. I know they've had issues with IPs in the past, some we still don't have, others we've received late.

Will MTGO be able to reasonably keep up with the new standard format? Or will it have to be MTGO standard going forward, missing entire legal sets?

When i try to make af mtgo Account it just says “this account Cannot be created” is there anyone that Can help me?

I just put Orim's Chant in my sideboard and I try to hold priority before first main by holding ctrl but it never seems to work. Am I doing something wrong?

Hello!

Following the announcement that UB sets will now enter in standard, do you think we will be able to do the redemption process on these sets?

Curious to hear your thoughts

So just started up MTGO with all the cards received from new account creation it's a little overwhelming. Would anybody be nice enough to share some deck lists (please list format) that could be created from the 7000+ cards received. Yes, I already know it comes with 5 ready to play decks. I'm just looking for a little variety and not ready to spend a bunch of money on digital magic yet.