Best way to use gold

[Slayer62]

Hi, have been playing for some time and i dont know in what to use gold, i used once on a draft but i dont know how is works and i ended getting random deck and lost 0 3 xd , i have like 20k, should i buy packs? idk. all i do is play a mono red deck that a friend told me

[ZAP]

Packs if you want better cards to make constructed decks. With draft you'll end up with cards that are great in a draft but unusable in constructed... Go on a losing streak for a week of drafts and you're digitally broke.

I focused on packs/wildcards/two colors for 2-3 years. After Historic was introduced I started using gold on cosmetics and anthologies, to tick up for a wildcard only rarely. Spent 100K gold on the first few Jump Ins.

[ZAP]

The first Jump Ins were different than what they are now. They were more like a Chronicles and you got the bones of a constructed squirrel deck basically guaranteed.

[ChaffyExpert]

Originally posted by mwesthoff:

Don't just draft without researching the set. Watch some videos and learn the cards first. You will be up against people who not only researched the set, but may have practiced with the deck they drafted before the event.

Unlike real drafts you can pause for days at a time.

Drafting can get you infinite gems, it's the highest reward. It can also buy you a Mastery pass. Unless you want to pay? I mean, I can only imagine anyone giving you any other advise is probably paying ... thus the low goal standards.

Basically you have to make this a full time job researching everything about a set to even have a chance of getting anything really, and then still lose due to random chance and end up having wasted all your gold.

People praise the draft but that's because they made it their full time job, you're just going to lose all your gold if MTG isn't the only thing in your life.

And then there was that Dabbuk guy that pretended like draft was a skill and meant you're good at deckbuilding, when in reality, it just means you have more time to waste and spend every hour of every day watching streamers talk about set meta and got lucky enough.

[Nubbles]

This is from a f2p player who relies solely on gold.

I use gold on quickdrafts. Sometimes in the daily deals, there's 550 gold for 50 gold or some gems, I buy those, but other than that, only quickdrafts.

When a new set comes out, I don't buy the packs, I don't open the free packs. About 2 weeks after a set has come out, it's available for quickdrafting. That's what I use to get the new set's cards. You can watch some videos on how drafting works or how it works in that specific set. I use that to complete a set to around 80% (of having everything 4x) and after the drafts I open all the packs. The packs have that protection on the rares where you can't get more than 4x from packs before getting all the rares, in drafts that protection doesn't exist, so that's why I wait with opening packs. After that, I save up gold again.

The gems I win are used on buying the mastery pass.

This has allowed me to get almost every card since dominaria united for free, with a lot of wildcards to spare. I can make any standard deck I want now and the wildcards are used on historic cards for brawl.

[Slayer62]

Originally posted by Nox:

This is from a f2p player who relies solely on gold.

I use gold on quickdrafts. Sometimes in the daily deals, there's 550 gold for 50 gold or some gems, I buy those, but other than that, only quickdrafts.

When a new set comes out, I don't buy the packs, I don't open the free packs. About 2 weeks after a set has come out, it's available for quickdrafting. That's what I use to get the new set's cards. You can watch some videos on how drafting works or how it works in that specific set. I use that to complete a set to around 80% (of having everything 4x) and after the drafts I open all the packs. The packs have that protection on the rares where you can't get more than 4x from packs before getting all the rares, in drafts that protection doesn't exist, so that's why I wait with opening packs. After that, I save up gold again.

The gems I win are used on buying the mastery pass.

This has allowed me to get almost every card since dominaria united for free, with a lot of wildcards to spare. I can make any standard deck I want now and the wildcards are used on historic cards for brawl.

tyy, very usefull.

[Minmataro]

Originally posted by ChaffyExpert:

Originally posted by mwesthoff:

Don't just draft without researching the set. Watch some videos and learn the cards first. You will be up against people who not only researched the set, but may have practiced with the deck they drafted before the event.

Unlike real drafts you can pause for days at a time.

Drafting can get you infinite gems, it's the highest reward. It can also buy you a Mastery pass. Unless you want to pay? I mean, I can only imagine anyone giving you any other advise is probably paying ... thus the low goal standards.

Basically you have to make this a full time job researching everything about a set to even have a chance of getting anything really, and then still lose due to random chance and end up having wasted all your gold.

People praise the draft but that's because they made it their full time job, you're just going to lose all your gold if MTG isn't the only thing in your life.

And then there was that Dabbuk guy that pretended like draft was a skill and meant you're good at deckbuilding, when in reality, it just means you have more time to waste and spend every hour of every day watching streamers talk about set meta and got lucky enough.

Some of the drafting guides are 30-45 minutes long. you're acting like you need to research for weeks. i usually watch a single overview video on a set and i start playing. when im not playing i watch a streamer i know thats good at drafting to learn more. its not insanely difficult. I casually draft i will maybe run 2-3 drafts a week. this is more than enough for me.