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Anyone not playing draft due to expensive cost? (aussie.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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Does anyone else not draft as much as you would on arena because of how expensive it is?

For a casual drafter that just wants to play around with the new set for maybe 1 or 2 drafts a week, the cost feels so ridiculous I just don't play. I would love to draft MKM but I cant justify the cost to simply play a digital card game. With so many other ways to monetise the game via cosmetics now, it would be nice of WotC to ease up a little and make drafting more free-to-play friendly.

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[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 6 points 8 months ago

I'm strictly free-to-play on Arena for a few reasons, which is to say yes, I draft less often than I would like to. Basically I play Standard to build up gold until I can afford to do a draft. Unfortunately I'm liking Standard less these days -- probably because they expended the number of sets -- so I'm not sure if my patience for that arrangement will last. Would be nice if they added Pauper or phantom drafts/sealed on a permanent basis, but I don't know how likely that is.

The good news is that the booster price increase doesn't seem to have affected the Arena economy. And I did just buy a Play booster box of MKM from my LGS, and the price hadn't gone up as much as I'd anticipated.