MTG Arena - Best Ways to spend Gold

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Contents hide Entering Events Entering Sealed Events Purchase Packs Buying Cosmetics Daily Deals When Is The Best Time To Spend Gold? Drafting Later MTG Arena Spend Gold – FAQ Can you use gold to enter events in MTG Arena? When is the best time to spend gold in MTG Arena?

Gold is one of the main currencies available in Magic: The Gathering: Arena. You are guaranteed to get gold simply by winning games. Every day, you can get up to 750 gold a day if you complete all of your daily win quests (which will also reward you XP to boost your Mastery Pass level which can also provide gold). You also can get gold by completing a daily quest, which will either award 500 or 750 gold. These quests are generally casting spells of a certain colour, playing lands, attacking with creatures, or killing your opponent’s creatures.

If you want to spend your gold, consider checking out the best standard decks in MTG Arena. You should also check out the best ways to get Wildcards in MTG Arena.

Gold is the fully free currency in Magic: The Gathering: Arena, with gems only being given as rewards for events or if you get a duplicate of a rare or mythic card after you have a full playset (or you can purchase gems directly). Gold can buy you many things on Arena except for entry to specific events, and these are the best ways to spend gold on Magic: The Gathering: Arena.

Entering Events

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You can enter constructed events for 2500 gold for best-of-one, and 5000 gold for best-of-three events. This is a great way to convert your gold into gems and be able to win booster packs in the process.

Each win gives you back more gems and a higher number of booster packs. These are competitive events with good returns if you are skilled at the formats. There are events for Standard, Alchemy, Explorer, and Historic.

If you are very competitive and looking to enter the world of competitive Magic: The Gathering, playing in events is a way to get your foot in the door. If you obtain seven wins in the best-of-one events before you lose three games, you will be rewarded with a Play-In Point. If you get five wins in best-of-three events without losing a game you will get four Play-In Points. You can use 20 Play-In Points to enter a Qualifier Play-In event, where if you win you gain entry to the Qualifier Weekend which goes into the Arena Championships where you can earn a spot on the Pro Tour.

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Gold can also be spent to enter Limited events. This is another way you can convert gold into gems and get booster pack rewards for doing well. If you play a Traditional Limited event, you even get two Play-In Points for winning three games without losing along with the maximum amount of gem and booster pack rewards.

Limited is a different kind of playstyle, consisting of the Draft and Sealed formats. In Draft, you open a pack and pick one card out of it before passing the rest of the cards to the next player. You then get passed a pack with one card taken and repeat the process until all the cards of everyone’s packs are gone. You do this three times and create a deck out of the cards you drafted. Sealed gives you six booster packs and you make a deck only out of the cards you open from those packs.

Limited events help you build your collection of cards as you get to keep all of the cards you draft and open in your Sealed packs. If you are good at Limited formats, you can keep entering them as if you win enough games you will be awarded enough gems to keep entering the events. This helps you grow your collection while climbing the Limited ladder. If you are aiming to be as free-to-play as possible, using your gold on drafts is the best way to amass your collection as it gives you the highest chance of getting multiple rares which help you rare-complete a set faster so you have access to all the rares when you build decks.

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Entering Sealed Events

Unfortunately, Sealed events can only be entered with 2000 gems. There is no option to enter with only gold. However, you can convert your gold into gems by entering and winning other events as they can reward you with enough gems to enter Sealed events. Sealed events do not stick around, and generally only remain during the first weeks of a set’s release.

Purchase Packs

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Another use of gold is purchasing packs. This is the other main way to build up a collection of cards from a set if you do not want to draft or aren’t great at Limited formats. You can purchase any pack for 1,000 gold and are rewarded with a golden pack for every tenth booster pack.

A booster pack on Magic: The Gathering: Arena consists of five common cards, two uncommon cards, and one rare or mythic card. All of these have the chance to be a wildcard of the same rarity, which can be redeemed for any card on the client of the same rarity (so a rare wildcard can be used to obtain a rare card, etc). In sets like Strixhaven and The Brothers’ War that have a bonus sheet, a common in the set will be replaced by a card from the bonus sheet that can be any rarity.

When you obtain a golden pack after buying ten booster packs (equivalent to 10,000 gold), it will contain at least five rares and a minimum of one mythic rare. There is a chance a mythic rare replaces a rare in a golden pack, with it possible to obtain four mythic rares. There are six cards in a golden pack. The cards inside are all from Standard-legal sets that are also legal in Alchemy. The one exception is a golden pack has the potential to contain two rare and/or mythics from The Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-earth which is only legal in non-Standard formats (excluding Explorer).

Buying Cosmetics

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Gold can be spent on cosmetics. These are an optional purchase that can alter visual aspects of the game. You can purchase companions that will appear on your board inside of games that you can click on to get a special animation. Companions (also referred to as pets) tend to have a few different animations they cycle through, and the animation may be different depending on if you click on yours or if you click on an opponent’s. The price of companions varies.

You may also purchase avatars with gold. These are the icons that appear above your life total inside your game and act as a profile picture of sorts. Avatars can be viewed on your “profile” tab in the “Avatars” selection. Here, you can see the name of an avatar as well as a paragraph of their backstory. Avatars have a static price of 2,500 gold (or 500 gems). These may be discounted if they are put on sale for a daily deal.

Another available cosmetic you can purchase with gold are sleeves. These appear on the back of your cards, visible to you if you ever have a card facedown in any zone. Sleeves can have a static image or be reactive when you hover your mouse over it. Regular art sleeves cost 3,000 gold (or 600 gems) and reactive sleeves cost 6,000 gold (or 1,200 gems).

Daily Deals

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The last use for gold is purchasing daily deals. Daily deals are a selection of curated offers you can purchase for either gold or gems. Items put on the daily deal section are sold at a discount from their usual prices.

As the name implies, daily deals rotate every day at 4:00 PM UTC. There is also a countdown that tells you when the daily deals refresh and are changed on the store tab for daily deals.

Generally, daily deals will have some kind of theme to it. For example, it may include card styles from a specific set or only have planeswalkers that are related to each other in some way. Most daily deals will only be parallax card styles with varying prices depending on the rarity of the card.

The first slot of the daily deal tends to rotate varying non-card style rewards. It can be a basic land of a specific art (which is normally not craftable so purchasing is the only way to get them), draft or sealed tokens, avatars, and pets. Limited tokens tend to show up in the shop around the time a new set releases, so if you want to enter a Draft at a discount that is a way to do so.

There are also occasions when gold or gems are put in the shop. When done, it is essentially giving it to you for free as the gold gives you 550 while only costing 50 gold with gems handled the same way.

When Is The Best Time To Spend Gold?

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How to spend your gold depends on what formats you like to play. If you are a fan of Limited formats, it is better to start saving your gold around the time a set is about to be released. This will let you play Drafts as much as you can, potentially playing more than expected if you keep winning thanks to the gem rewards. This is best done around the time of a set’s release as you will have a full batch of daily quests to do to gain more gold out of simply playing the game.

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Drafting Later

You can also opt to wait to start playing Limited events until the meta is more developed. If you play early, the cards and interactions are still being discovered, and the good and bad cards of the format aren’t fully clear yet. If you wait until the meta develops more, you can increase your chances at being successful in Limited events at the cost of that same knowledge being more common so people know the best cards to draft. It can work for and against you, so draft whenever you see fit.

If you are not a fan of Limited formats, buying the packs of the latest set is your best use of gold. There is little reason to save up your gold in this case as you can build your collection faster by buying packs as soon as you can. If you grow tired of a Limited format of a set you can swap to buying packs as a way to finish collecting the cards you missed out on during drafting or Sealed events. Thanks to golden packs, it becomes even easier to complete your sets due to guaranteed rares and mythics being included.

In the case of daily deals, even if you have no gold you can generally earn enough to purchase something that appears on the shop before it rotates. Your daily quests reset at 11:00 AM UTC so you can earn between 2,500 and 3,000 gold in the two days before the shop rotates to be able to purchase most items that may appear in the shop. The main exception is the Limited event tokens which cost more than you can make. However, if you do not have an interest in Limited you can ignore this entirely.

These are all the best ways to spend gold on Magic: The Gathering: Arena. Gold can amass itself rather quickly thanks to the daily quests and can be spent on most things on the client. Outside of a few select events like Sealed and Qualifier Play-Ins, gold can be used to purchase any item or event entry (except for those that require direct payment like wildcard bundles). The Mastery Pass helps to amass more gold quickly thanks to frequent gold rewards to give you even more gold to spend. The primary ways to spend them are on Drafts and booster packs, with both being the best ways to increase your collection. Gold is going to be the currency you use the most, especially if you are free to play. Gold is easily obtained and easily spent, with plenty of great options to spend your gold on for any kind of format you enjoy playing, from the most casual to the most competitive.

Be sure to check out the best historical decks in MTG Arena. You can also check out the best budget standard decks in MTG Arena.

MTG Arena Spend Gold – FAQ

Can you use gold to enter events in MTG Arena?

When is the best time to spend gold in MTG Arena?

How to spend your gold depends on what formats you like to play. If you are a fan of Limited formats, it is better to start saving your gold around the time a set is about to be released.

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