For people who are free to play, the gold piles up pretty quickly if you do not buy packs or cosmetics. My limiting factor has been time, not gold. I find drafting to be time consuming and stressful. I did my first drafts with ONE and did ok, with over 50% winrate with quick and premiere drafts, but especially with "quick" drafts without a timer, I spent time researching cards during every pick and also looking at other people's drafts to learn and get the most value I could. And then you have to construct the best deck you can, which takes time again. Maybe some people have the personality to just jump in without spending time to learn about the format/set, but not me. This is in contrast to playing constructed, where you can run the same deck over and over
Agreed! I watched a a month of gameplay/ draft videos before I downloaded the app (MTG Arena). Everything you said is so true. I was able to reach Mythic Rank in 50 days with a Boros MidRange, even with the season reset at month's end.
Awesome video and I love the points made. Wanted to know more about the gems after playing MTG Arena for about two months now. I've only been playing gold for events and I love drafting. Extremely helpful and thank you for sharing. Keep on tapping out!! 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
id recommend waiting to the end of the set event to buy the mastery pass... use the gems for draft events and earn more. when you get the mastery pass, youll get all the rewards that were locked, also wait to open your packs from the even sets, if you are playing draft you will build your collection fairly fast, opening packs after could net you extra wildcards!!!
Hey, so now i've got my mastery pass and enough gems for the next one when it comes out. What's the best usage of my leftover gems? Currently using it for premier draft, but maybe buying packs is more value.
If you've got enough to cover the mastery pass, the only thing I would spend extra gems on is events. I prefer Premier Draft because I get about a 60% win rate. It's much better to only use gold for buying packs.
i tried bettering my drafting and unfortunately ive found that it ruins the game for me, there was too much stress and disappointment not to mention the effort to even get enough gold for quick drafts was not worth all the tension. I'll be sticking to buying packs, at least i'll betting wildcards that.
There's no way to get them without paying for anything I noticed. I'm lvl 28 and only recieved them from apology emails and codes. Cool video though. :). I'm free to play and I'm doing pretty well so far. Silver 3. Only been at it for like 3 weeks
Gems are the premium currency, so they're going to be harder to obtain in general without spending money, but you don't have to. New players now get 600 gems when they start, then there are daily deals that come up every 6 weeks for turning gold into gems, and playing draft or constructed events will also reward gems when you pay for your entry in gold, so those are also possibilities.
FYI: To learn to draft well, watch NumotTheNummy drafts here on youtube. He is by far the best drafter that I've followed for the past several years. He will show you how to trophy more easily.
For people who are free to play, the gold piles up pretty quickly if you do not buy packs or cosmetics. My limiting factor has been time, not gold. I find drafting to be time consuming and stressful. I did my first drafts with ONE and did ok, with over 50% winrate with quick and premiere drafts, but especially with "quick" drafts without a timer, I spent time researching cards during every pick and also looking at other people's drafts to learn and get the most value I could. And then you have to construct the best deck you can, which takes time again. Maybe some people have the personality to just jump in without spending time to learn about the format/set, but not me. This is in contrast to playing constructed, where you can run the same deck over and over
Agreed! I watched a a month of gameplay/ draft videos before I downloaded the app (MTG Arena). Everything you said is so true. I was able to reach Mythic Rank in 50 days with a Boros MidRange, even with the season reset at month's end.
At 4:44 in the video you said it costs 500 gold to enter the quick draft - it actually costs 5000 gold to enter the MOM Quick Draft.
You're right, too many numbers and it's easy to miss in editing! 🤦♂️
Just started on Arena. It’s certainly one hell of a grind trying to get the 10k gold to do a Draft to earn the gems needed for the Pass
You can get over 1000 gold per day if you get 4 wins, so it'll take some time, but you've got enough time to get there.
@@gameschooldadMTG yeah I managed to get to a draft quite quickly. Due to the 9000 discount pass being offered last week!
Awesome video and I love the points made. Wanted to know more about the gems after playing MTG Arena for about two months now. I've only been playing gold for events and I love drafting. Extremely helpful and thank you for sharing. Keep on tapping out!! 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
@@noblockstapoutplease glad it was helpful
id recommend waiting to the end of the set event to buy the mastery pass... use the gems for draft events and earn more. when you get the mastery pass, youll get all the rewards that were locked, also wait to open your packs from the even sets, if you are playing draft you will build your collection fairly fast, opening packs after could net you extra wildcards!!!
I do surveys that earn google play rewards... just pooling that up until it gets to the slightly better ratio of gems : cash
Learning of the Gem sale ahead of time is big. I'll be sure not to fall under 1500 gold from now on
Hey, so now i've got my mastery pass and enough gems for the next one when it comes out. What's the best usage of my leftover gems? Currently using it for premier draft, but maybe buying packs is more value.
If you've got enough to cover the mastery pass, the only thing I would spend extra gems on is events. I prefer Premier Draft because I get about a 60% win rate. It's much better to only use gold for buying packs.
i tried bettering my drafting and unfortunately ive found that it ruins the game for me, there was too much stress and disappointment not to mention the effort to even get enough gold for quick drafts was not worth all the tension. I'll be sticking to buying packs, at least i'll betting wildcards that.
Wildcards should not be underestimated at all! If I didn't enjoy drafting, I would definitely just spend my gold on the latest packs too 👍
I am a terrible drafter. I just use them to build my collection now as I was getting 0 wins anyway 😂. Thanks for laying everything out so clearly.
I got 7 wins on my first quick draft!
@@GothPrime Wow, that's great! Enjoy your gems :)
You're not alone brother, drafting is stressful to me 😂
Anyone have any good event farming decks? Thinking bo1 is the better way to go there.
Can you play with jump in cards in standard?
@@Majber yes the jump-in cards are Standard Legal, with the exception of Lord of the Rings packs.
There's no way to get them without paying for anything I noticed. I'm lvl 28 and only recieved them from apology emails and codes. Cool video though. :). I'm free to play and I'm doing pretty well so far. Silver 3. Only been at it for like 3 weeks
Gems are the premium currency, so they're going to be harder to obtain in general without spending money, but you don't have to. New players now get 600 gems when they start, then there are daily deals that come up every 6 weeks for turning gold into gems, and playing draft or constructed events will also reward gems when you pay for your entry in gold, so those are also possibilities.
@@gameschooldadMTG 600 gems is huge as a new player
I went 7-2 with the free draft I got from my mastery pass. So I got the 2200 gems I spent on the pass back. Lesson is: draft well, get rewarded 😉
FYI: To learn to draft well, watch NumotTheNummy drafts here on youtube. He is by far the best drafter that I've followed for the past several years. He will show you how to trophy more easily.
@@edh_alters7116 I've learnt a lot from Nikolai Bolas too, he's really informative 👍
@@edh_alters7116 I love Nummy, he's the best