Is MTGA Free To Play friendly?

[$trider]

Looking for other tcg's to play but am a f2p player.

Thanks,

[DontMisunderstand]

Originally posted by Panda:

Originally posted by Kurt Angle's Neck:

Every card that is available can be obtained for free. There are no f2p or p2p decks, the same cards are available to everyone.

Yea nothing is gated, except unlock speed. You get gold from winning, winning is harder as f2p than paid though.

While technically true, this statement vastly overrepresents the increase in win rate that comes with optimizing cards in deck. Build a good deck with what you have and it'll find success. Doesn't matter what format or the state of your collection, this is true. Getting better cards can improve your deck, but the strategy you select as the base will be the most important factor in your winrate, not specific cards owned.

[Panda]

Originally posted by DontMisunderstand:

Originally posted by Panda:

Yea nothing is gated, except unlock speed. You get gold from winning, winning is harder as f2p than paid though.

While technically true, this statement vastly overrepresents the increase in win rate that comes with optimizing cards in deck. Build a good deck with what you have and it'll find success. Doesn't matter what format or the state of your collection, this is true. Getting better cards can improve your deck, but the strategy you select as the base will be the most important factor in your winrate, not specific cards owned.

While true, two bad players one with a deck that that bad player made vs a meta net deck against the other bad player would see the netdecker getting more wins. That's the carry effect netdecking has and why so many do it.

Would be nice for more rewards about playing full games, vs purely winning

[Minmataro]

i mean if u don't mind waiting for a while. You could save gold while using the free decks. Get really good at drafting or just wait and make 2-3 meta decks and play ranked. Build up wild cards as you crack packs u earn for free to craft the few new cards each set that enter the meta within the colors u like to play.

[Xeoah]

Originally posted by JxP:

Looking for other tcg's to play but am a f2p player.

Thanks,

Think you'll get 10 packs per week if you grind on it a lot. There is 3 free packs per set with the use of codes you can find online.

The set passes give you a good amount of rewards and some premium currency back but never enough out right buy the next set pass of course. So you will have to be putting in some money even after fully completing the last set, which can be a lot of grinding. Thankfully you can do it between your computer while watching vids and on your phone/tablet.

For grinding standard ranked, this mode is gonna be dominated by decks with full playsets of multiple rares/mythics for each color. But some pauper decks can get good winrates. There are multiple websites to see WR for different decks.

There are different game modes that you may have more luck in as a free player since its not limited to just standard and you wouldnt have to worry about your cards going out of rotation.

Then there are promo sets like the LOTR set and so on. These I would ignore, since they are usually out powered by normal standard sets, so they would only be playable inside their own set and therefore useless in most modes.

You also get free packs if you attend IRL Friday Night MTG at your local places for pre release.

For me I like playing MTG but not enough that I would go out and play in person so this is a good medium.

[$trider]

Hey guys wanted to update now that im actually playing.. I am looking to craft one of the below 2 decks

- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-blue-tempo-mid#arena

- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-red-aggro-mid#arena

I currently have:
11 C
15 UC
7 Rare
2 Mythic

Is the goal here to play with the garbage decks they give you to grind daily missions/weekly missions for gold to unlock new packs to get more Wildcards?

Also, what game mode will best put me in a chance to win with these garbage decks they gave me?
Oh, and does this game heavily optimize towards buying 10 packs instead of 1? I know its rng, but if the game literally fks you when buying single packs i wont even chance it

[Joker]

Originally posted by JxP:

Hey guys wanted to update now that im actually playing.. I am looking to craft one of the below 2 decks

- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-blue-tempo-mid#arena

- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-red-aggro-mid#arena

I currently have:
11 C
15 UC
7 Rare
2 Mythic

Is the goal here to play with the garbage decks they give you to grind daily missions/weekly missions for gold to unlock new packs to get more Wildcards?

Also, what game mode will best put me in a chance to win with these garbage decks they gave me?
Oh, and does this game heavily optimize towards buying 10 packs instead of 1? I know its rng, but if the game literally fks you when buying single packs i wont even chance it

I'd say make mono blue tempo
Haven't tried the red one
But mono blue tempo can compete with much "better" decks as soon as you understand the deck

And it's only 4 rares. Rest common/uncommon
At least the version I made

[Panda]

Originally posted by JxP:

Hey guys wanted to update now that im actually playing.. I am looking to craft one of the below 2 decks

- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-blue-tempo-mid#arena

- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-red-aggro-mid#arena

That red deck is so boring imo, like 40% of my games end up being against that deck and it usually ends up being they win within 3-4 turns or they lose.

[Berserkr]

Originally posted by JxP:

Oh, and does this game heavily optimize towards buying 10 packs instead of 1? I know its rng, but if the game literally fks you when buying single packs i wont even chance it

You get a gold pack for every 10 packs that you actually buy the newest set which just came out today, the gold pack has 6 cards and they're all guaranteed to be rares or have a chance to be mythics, my record is 3 mythics out of 6 cards so far, so you can buy a single pack if you want it'll be 1/10th of the way to a gold pack
As for your question about being screwed I just opened up my 3 free packs today and I got a mythic, rare and a rare wildcard so I'm happy

[The booty warrior]

well if its ftp with games like this its pay to win you will find out LOL

[SammyToeJr]

Originally posted by JxP:

Looking for other tcg's to play but am a f2p player.

Thanks,

well MTG has always been a by to pay type of game, even in real life as some cards are so busted and rare they can cost upwards of 50,000 bucks for a CARD. so...

but if were talking is it THAT bad, in the video game? no where near instead your going to spend 200 bucks for packs to get the card you want to stand a chance.

but if you mean can you play the game for free and earn cards for free? sure but at a snails pace. so i would argue no.

[Soji]

If by friendly do you mean can you compete with people who put in money, then yes if you put in months of grinding to save up enough gold to buy packs to get wild cards and craft competitive decks. I personally wouldn't call it friendly because that time is honestly around a month of just using the starter decks and saving the entire time. But i guess its all subjective.

[mwesthoff]

Save gold and then use it to draft. Win a few drafts to gain the gems to join the seasons mastery challenge (it's always by far the best value for gaining cards..plus if gives back a lot of the gems).

50k gold should be enough to win the gems needed for the mastery pass for an average player. 10 quick drafts should get you the 3800 gems needed.

Keep in mind that the mastery gives you 1200 gems back for completing levels. It really only costs 2600 gems if you complete most of the levels.

[Joker]

Originally posted by mwesthoff:

Save gold and then use it to draft. Win a few drafts to gain the gems to join the seasons mastery challenge (it's always by far the best value for gaining cards..plus if gives back a lot of the gems).

50k gold should be enough to win the gems needed for the mastery pass for an average player. 10 quick drafts should get you the 3800 gems needed.

Keep in mind that the mastery gives you 1200 gems back for completing levels. It really only costs 2600 gems if you complete most of the levels.

If you are familiar with MTG and card games in general and confident you can perform well, then yeah
If not familiar with the basics and MTG mechanics yet, probably not the best idea

[mwesthoff]

Originally posted by Joker:

Originally posted by mwesthoff:

Save gold and then use it to draft. Win a few drafts to gain the gems to join the seasons mastery challenge (it's always by far the best value for gaining cards..plus if gives back a lot of the gems).

50k gold should be enough to win the gems needed for the mastery pass for an average player. 10 quick drafts should get you the 3800 gems needed.

Keep in mind that the mastery gives you 1200 gems back for completing levels. It really only costs 2600 gems if you complete most of the levels.

If you are familiar with MTG and card games in general and confident you can perform well, then yeah
If not familiar with the basics and MTG mechanics yet, probably not the best idea

Just spilling what it takes to play for free and be infinite. The only reliable way to gain gems is to wager gold on a draft.

I can't imagine telling someone to stay in there comfort zone to get crap for prizes. Gems are the real prizes. It's the games way of giving you a little spill over from all the dummies who spend money on the game.

[Hannah Barbara]

If you are F2P you are the content.