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.

/endrant

  • readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br
    81·
    9 months ago

    I actually stopped playing altogether because my favorite format is draft, and no one plays it physically in Brazil because it is extremely expensive.

  • MrKarato@beehaw.org
    6·
    9 months ago

    Me and my friends got into Cube. We have 3, soon to be 5 cubes that we cycle through. Pauper, Peasant, Unpowered Legacy, soon to have a custom card, and legacy brawl cube. It’s great.

  • EvuEnglish
    6·
    9 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.

  • blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    9 months ago

    If you have a play group that likes to draft I would highly recommend building a cube. You can even proxy the whole thing using a basic color printer. ;)

  • yggdrasilEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I ran a draft at my shop last night (first of the set) and had 4 people. I am in a small town so 6 usual. My packs of MKM have been $6.49, however I dropped them to $5.99 for the draft and only charged $5 for entry. The total with tax was under $25.