In Arena, there isn’t a reliable way to get the cards they need other than getting Wildcards which makes the price of every Rare and Mythic on Arena essentially the same. With these affordable ways to get what you need on the cheap, everyone has the ability to buy into the deck they want on MTGO. This fully upgraded Merfolk deck that went 5-2 in a Modern event on MTGO costs a mere $8 to rent per week! There are even hyper budget formats that you can play like “pauper” or the player run “penny dreadful” format.įor those of you who want more power, renting a fully upgraded tiered deck is much more affordable than outright buying a deck if you don’t play that often.

This means that MTGO is essentially a brewer’s paradise. Take the Mythic Rare Bitterblossom, for example, where it costs US$45 for a paper version (at the time of writing), it is only 0.63 Tix on MTGO. Cards that are very expensive in paper are worth mere pennies on MTGO. While $12 might not seem like much, the big difference is that digital cards are often much cheaper than paper versions of cards. Mana Traders has a free account that provides $7 worth of digital cards (7 Tix) and Cardhoarder provides $5 worth of digital cards (5 Tix). On MTGO, the economy uses Tickets (or ‘Tix’), where each Ticket costs $1.

Where it gets really cheap though is that each of these services also provide FREE rental services.

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